Angoulême 2013 - the video

We did a little video with some images from the first part of our trip - the festival in Angoulême, the artists we knew, the town. I hope you like it.

Angoulême - part 1

Bá and I returned from our first trip to Angoulême and its Festival International de la Bande Dessinée a week ago, in the middle of Carnaval, and after 10 days in the cold french winter, we recovered by the beach for a week, feet sunk in the wet sand seen through the transparent waters of our beautiful sea. We had an incredible time in France, inspiring every day, and more and more we fall in love with the respect and love the french market has for the books and the artists.



Festivals that take place in smaller cities, or in just one determined part of a big one, are great because you can - and should - do everything by foot, and Angoulême is this beautiful little medieval city and the festival takes over the entire town. All around, you see people that love comics, artists, readers, editors and everybody else involved, and you cross them in the streets, in every restaurant, in all bars and museums and in the giant tents (called "bulles" over there) where you'll find the stands and booths of all the publishers. The prize most people are after is a very beautiful original drawing - done on their book or on a sketchbook or on a separate piece of paper - from their favorite artist. The artists take turns in the publishers booths, and a place in the line for one of the signing sessions of three hours (or more) is very disputed.
We were at the Urban Comics booth every day, signing copies of Daytripper or Casanova, and from Umbrella Academy and many of our work in english. The response from the audience was incredible, and it was great to see what the french responded more in Daytripper: Olinda, the exotic girl from the waters of Salvador, and Brás first love, was more successful than Ana, and many people asked for drawings of Dante, the dog.



Another guest Urban Comics brought to the festival was Bill Willinghan, of Fables' fame, who came with his lovely assistant Stephanie. Every night, as we gathered together for dinner, the guests and everybody from the publisher, we had an incredibly funny time with Bill, a human well of jokes, and he told very interesting stories about his time serving in the army in the seventies, which was the last time he had visited France. After two or three Vertigo panels together in San Diego (all of them passed without us getting to properly talk to each other), it was really nice to finally have an opportunity to get to know Bill a little more. Those dinners at Angoulême were always delightful, and everybody at Urban Comics loves what they do, and it was nice to feel that comics (or bande dessinée) are such a passionate world in France.
It's great to feel the good vibe when it's there, spreading, oozing from the artists, from the readers, from yours friends. It was great to see people we already knew so we could share this wonderful feeling that comics are great and there's something magical happening in comics right now. We had great talks with Cyril Pedrosa over late night drinks, and a great conversation with Mark Siegel over wine, and a wonderful lunch with Bannister in the basement of a italian restaurant. There were those we wished we could have seen more, and talked more with, like Frederik Peeters, Annabelle, Joe Keating and many others. On the last night, we had a very interesting and motivating conversation with Jessica Abel and Matt Madden about the differences of comics, of comics markets, of different artists, authors, and how that, instead of limiting, is nowadays actually liberating, even if still hard to accomplish.


Another great thing about this year's festival was the presence of so many brazilians. Call me patriotic, or sentimental (or blind, or crazy, or stupid), but comics are living a great moment in the world theses days, where new stuff by new people is finding its way in the hands of the readers all around, and when something great happens to you, you wish somebody close to you could share all these wonderfull feelings, and it was great to have other brazilian artists around, our friends, and it was a special moment that we shared in those four days of festivities, a moment we can bring back home together, hoping that, by talking about it, we can inspire others the same way the trip inspired us.

Angoulême 2013 - books and watercolors

It's not every day that we travel to France, so we decided to take some of our more independent publications to sell at Angoulême. Since Atelier, our latest mini-comic, is also in french, it was a perfecy fit.
Look for us any time we're at the Urban Comics stand (most afternoons from 2pm to 6pm) to check it out.


We'll also have a very limited amount of watercolor girls, which are only found personally with us during conventions and festival.

   

(click on the images for bigger versions)

Nous nous voyons lá-bas!

Angoulême 2013, allons-y!

I can't really believe this, but we're actually going to the Festival International de la Bande Dessinée d'Angoulême, in France. We wanted to go for so long and, finally, we're not only going, but we're doing it big style, with books published (Daytripper and Casanova), invited by the publisher (Urban Comics), running for the main prize (We're also up for the "Cultura - Public's choice award" and everyone can vote here until February 2nd). Well, we couldn't be happier.

We'll meet new people, find new comics (or BDs), speak a lot of French. After 16 years going to SDCC (San Diego Comic Con International), I believe this will give us a whole new perspective on the meaning of Comics Festival.

But like any other show, we have our schedule and commitments, and here it is so people can find us easier. We have signings (dédicaces) from friday through sunday over the Urban Comics booth (L3 at the Le Monde des Bulles area) and we'll have one spotlight panel because of Daytripper's nomination for the award (everyone on the official selection has their half hour spotlight panel). So here it comes:

Friday, February 1st:

- Dédicaces from 15h to 18h

Urban Comics stand: L3, Le Monde des Bulles

Saturday, February 2nd:

- Dédicaces from 15h to 17h15 

Urban Comics stand: L3, Le Monde des Bulles

- Panel: 18h00

moderated by Martin Zeller
Espace Selection Officielle Cultura CM17, Le Monde des Bulles (Durée : 0h30) 

Sunday, February 3rd:

- Dédicaces from 14h to 15h45

Urban Comics stand: L3, Le Monde des Bulles

Nous nous voyons la.

Olinda

daytripper-olinda-2013, a photo by 10paezinhos on Flickr.

Prepairing my take on our beloved Daytripper characters.

Ana

daytripper-ana-2013, a photo by 10paezinhos on Flickr.

Prepairing my take on our beloved Daytripper characters.

Daytripper - Jorge

Practicing drawing Jorge on my sketchbook.

Daytripper also selected for Public Choice award in Angoulême

Last November, we learned that Daytripper entered the official selection of the main award of the French market, "les Fauves d'Angoulême". He's running with 32 other albuns released in French between December of 2011 and November of 2012. There's a grand jury who will select the winner and the result will be unveiled on February 3rd, last day of the Festival.

Today we discovered that Daytripper is up for yet another award, the "public's choice award", held by Cultura, the Festival's partner bookstore, whose staff has chosen eight favourite works and the public has to vote on the one they think it's the best one. Everyone can vote.

So, if you want to vote, click here, pick your favourite book, give your name and email and vote.

The apocalypse is Now

Bá's rendition of this famous scene in Apocalypse Now for a movie poster exposition. Seems appropriate to post it today.

CASANOVA in France

Here's the brand new cover I did for the French edition of CASANOVA - Luxuria.




Casanova is gonna be published in France by Urban Comics, to be release in January, 2013.

I'm prepared to sign a lot of Casanovas in Angoulême and on the other cities of our little French tour, as well of Daytripper (and every other book someone might bring) and do a lot of "dédicaces".

BPRD: Vampire cover 2

This link, where we first talk about the new mini-series, already had this image, which is the cover of issue 2, so I guess it's ok to show it here as well even if it's not in solicitations yet.

Sélection Officielle - Angouleme 2013

Daytripper just made it into the official selection of the Festival International de la Bande Dessinée d'Angoulême 2013.

The festival will take place from January 31st until February 3rd, 2013, and we will be there! When the time comes and we know more about it, we'll put our whole schedule over here.
Thanks everyone for this never ending amazing ride.

Merci beaucoup.
Nous sommes très heureux. 
Nous voyions en Angoulême.

Utopiales - Prix de la meilleure BD

Daytripper has just won the Award for best "album de bande dessinée" at Les Utopiales, in Nantes, France


Merci a tout le monde.
Nous sommes très heureux.

CARANDIRU poster

CARANDIRU poster, a photo by 10paezinhos on Flickr.

My version of a poster for Carandiru, a brazilian movie about real events, set in a prison. Part of an exhibition with new versions for classic or iconic movie posters.

Quai des Bulles - merci pour tout.

I just returned from this beautiful festival in France called Quai des Bulles, that happens every year in Saint Malo in the region of Bretagne and is the second biggest comics festival in France, after only Angoulême. It was nothing short of incredible.

Daytripper was nominated for an award called Prix Ouest France, which we didn't win, but with the trip, I won much more than I could possibly imagine.
Saint Malo is a beautiful city and I had a great time, met wonderful people, artists, fans and the people from the festival. Every day there was new discoveries, and every night, new mysteries. I met my friend Frederik Peeters by chance there (the fact that I was invited one week from the festival made the entire experience a surprise for me, since I had no time to make plans), and met many artists from Nantes, many friends of my friend Cyril Pedrosa, who was in a festival in Portugal that weekend. Also, meeting Bastien Vivès was nice. I also bumped a couple of times with Sean Phillips there, he was one of the guests of honor, with a beautiful exhibition of originals.
  
 
 
  
I couldn't recommend this festival hard enough for anyone interested in seeing what French comics have to offer, and how incredible creative the stories, the books, the artists and the festival environment all are. Thanks to François, Florian, Anneclaire, Emmanuel, Gérald, Clémentine and everybody else who made this such an unforgettable trip for me.

BPRD: VAMPIRE

Some years ago, we had the gigantic honor of being invited to work with Mike Mignola on the series BPRD 1947 (along with Josh Dysart). We have been huge fans of his work for more than two decades and he's a massive influence.

After we finished that series, Mike and Scott (our editor) wanted to make more comics with us, but we didn't really know what at the time. A couple of years later, we finally finished Daytripper and we started talking about what this next thing could be.

What it turned out is this:
BPRD :VAMPIRE



On 1947, we were only the artists on that series. This time, we talking closely with Mike and Scott and we are also writing the story.

We are really thrilled to be working on the Heelboy universe once more and I can only hope the readers like what we will show them.

It will be a 5 issue mini-series and it'll begin in March. You can read a little bit more about it here, and see some pages as well.

MONSTERS!

Who's going to NYCC?
Wanna know the release party to attend during the convention weekend? Bergen street Comics has the answer for you.
Don't miss this opportunity to get Gustavo Duarte's new book.

Complete Serenity short for sale.

This year, I did a neat SERENITY short story with Zack Whedon for FREE COMIC BOOK DAY. It was published by Dark Horse and now the original artwork is available for sale at the Beguiling online store. Differently than what we've done with the Beguiling in other occasions, this time we're only selling this as a set, so whoever feels like having an entire short story by me, this is your chance.

To see all 10 pages at a larger size, click here.

Earlier last week, there was a little mix up about the prices of these pages, and both the Beguiling people and I apologize for it. 

mysterious

Looking up

Está chovendo?, a photo by 10paezinhos on Flickr.

Up and ahead.
Always.
After our dreams.