The new graphic novel is a graphic adaptation of KISS ME, JUDAS , the first book of the critically acclaimed neo-noir trilogy Phineas Poe, by author Will Christopher Baer. Illustrated by award-winning MTV Brazil animator Jefferson Costa, KISS ME, JUDAS is our eighth title illustrated by a Brazilian artist. As many of you know, our catalog includes the American debut in 1999 of Eisner Award winning artists Gabriel Ba and Fabio Moon.
Synopsis: Phineas Poe is a disgraced ex-cop who walks out of a Denver psych ward on Christmas Eve and heads for the nearest hotel bar, looking to lay low. Instead, he chats up the wrong girl, a stranger with dark eyes and a scar at the edge of her mouth. Deadly as she is beautiful, Jude is a freelance organ thief who leads a willing Phineas upstairs, cuts him open and tosses him to fate. Reborn in a tub of ice, Phineas chases Jude on a twisted quest for redemption that rapidly blurs the lines between victim and accomplice, lover and torturer. From the black snow of Denver to the scorched Texas desert, Phineas and Jude are plunged ever deeper into the company of pimps, parasites, pushers, and perverts‹a freefall into deeper and darker planes of drug-fueled paranoia and erotic obsession.
This book is available online only. Limited print run, so reserve your copy today!
1 Bruno D’Angelo (”O Catador de Batatas e o Filho da Costureira” - JBC) 2 Danilo Beyruth (”O Necronauta” - Independente) 3 Marlon Tenório (”Os 303 de Esparta” - Independente) 4 Olavo Costa (”O Contínuo” - Independente) 5 Hemeterio (”Chibata! João Cândido e a Revolta que Abalou o Brasil” - Conrad) 6 Pablo Mayer (”A Casa ao Lado” - HQM) 7 Tulio Caetano (”Dr. Bubbles & Tilt” - Zarabatana)
Roteirista Revelação
1 Alex Mir (”Tempestade Cerebral” - Independente) 2 Dalton Correa Soares (”O Contínuo” - Independente) 3 Leandro Assis e Hiroshi Maeda (”O Cabeleira” - Desiderata) 4 Marlon Tenório (”Os 303 de Esparta” - Independente) 5 Olinto Gadelha (”Chibata! João Cândido e a Revolta que Abalou o Brasil” - Conrad) 6 Ricardo Giassetti (”O Catador de Batatas e o Filho da Costureira” - JBC) 7 Rodrigo Alonso (”Eterno” - Independente)
Projeto Editorial
1 Calendário Pindura 2009 (Pégasus Alado) 2 O Catador de Batatas e o Filho da Costureira (JBC) 3 Dr. Bubbles & Tilt (Zarabatana) 4 História do Brasil, História Mundial e Filosofia em Quadrinhos (Escala Educacional) 5 Powertrio (Mondo Urbano) 6 As Tiras Clássicas da Turma da Mônica (Panini) 7 Turma da Mônica Jovem (Panini)
A LENDA DO LEÃO Em 1999, ou antes, eu ainda trabalhava como ilustrador (e disigner ultra junior) no Estúdio Oficcinae com o Eco Moliterno, Kako, Japs, Marcio Penna, Marcelo Furquim, Chico Bela, Thiago Judas e Peov. Nessa época faziamos de tudo um pouco e sempre com um pouco de desorganização e improviso, mas sem dúvida foi um tempo que formou todos esses caras. O Eco costuma dizer que nós temos uma carreira invertida, que todos começamos como Sócios (e que nunca fomos estagiários). De qualquer maneira, faziamos muitas coisas, e uma das coisas que eu mais gostava nessa época de "vender" por aí eram projetos de Quadrinhos, e um que eu empurrei mais que outros foi o LION LEGEND, inicialmente pensado para HARD CORE, foi na FLUIR que ele ganhou algum espaço, pelo menos alguma atenção. Foi uma história criada por mim e pelo PEOV. Eu comecei a surfar (com meu amigo de faculdade Leandro da Costa) e o PEOV tinha – ou melhor, tem – um irmão surfista, e portanto passavamos por uma fase que só desenhavamos isso. Pra complicar a venda ainda mais, os personagens eram todos animais, um leão, uma Onça e um Canguru. Fizemos assim pelo prazer de desenhar, e os caras do Surfe, que rejeitaram o projeto, nunca entenderam isso.
Porque estou falando disso agora 10 anos depois? Porque reencontrei o Ernani Mesquita, ou o Naninho, que dirigiu a arte da FLUIR por mais de 20 anos e formou muitos profissionais e é um dos responsáveis pelo que chamamos da imagem do surfe no Brasil. Um adendo à história, foi por causa dele que me tornei Diretor de Arte de revista. Foi indo na redação levar este projeto que pude ver o dia-a-dia de um cara como ele e me apaixonei por fazer revistas. Por isso devo muito a ele. E essa semana recebi das mãos dele, super bem guardado, o material que deixei pra vender o projeto naquela época do estúdio. Um presente de 10 anos dado por um cara muito especial em um momento muito importante.
O que vai acontecer depois? Quem sabe? Talvez o PEOV tenha uma idéia e partiremos daí.
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Friday
Catação, classficação e armazenamentoA catação de batatas no campo, logo após a colheita é feita a mão, podendo-se, em seguida. usar gadanho para remover a terra e retirar as batatas que, eventualmente fiquem enterradas. A classificação, quando o produto se destina aos mercados exigentes, deve ser feita durante a catação. Separa-se, nessa ocasião, o produto em dois tipos: mercado e descarte ou forragem. O primeiro, com raízes de tamanho médio, sadias, bem conformadas e típicas da variedade; o segundo, com raízes demasiadamente grandes, defeituosas, estragadas, muito pequenas, enfim todas as batatas que apresentam qualquer defeito que deprecie o produto do mercado.
Os dois tipos devem ser acondicionados, separadamente, em caixas, barricas, cestas, jacás,etc., cuidando-se sempre de não ferir as batatas. O acondicionamento em sacos de pano ou outra embalagem deformável costuma não proteger bem as batatas recém-colhidas contra esfoladuras e mesmo esmagamento durante o transporte causando ferimentos que provocam as podridões durante o armazenamento.
A fim de se dar melhor aspecto ao produto, possibilitando maiores cotações comerciais, as raízes podem ser lavadas após a colheita, assim a aparência das raízes, nestas condições, melhora extraordinariamente.
Quando não for possível enviar logo o produto ao mercado, deverá ele ser armazenado, durante o tempo de espera em lugar bem abrigado de vento, da chuva, do frio e do sol. O acondicionamcnto deve ser feito preferivelmente em caixas, como veio do campo, devendo-se conservar os tipos separadamente. Para não ferir as raízes nem facilitar a propagação da podridão é aconselhável evitar o mais possível o manuseio das raízes durante o armazenarnento.
Quando se deseja armazenar as batatas por vários meses podem elas ser estiatificadas de permeio a camadas de casca de arroz ou areia lavada de modo que fiquem camadas alternadas da batata e do material protetor.posted by YELLOJELLO : 4:10:00 PM 0 comments
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Friday
IT'S DONEI did it.
It's done, finished, Kaput.
A hundred pages, in tooooooo much time.
Late, but delivered.
I'm sorry for those whom I neglected, and I thank those who supported me.
YELLO AWARDS 2008Remember the Robot story that me and Diego did last year? So, the book where it's featured just got nominated for the Eisner awards! We're listed with one of the coolest mini-comics of the Year, 5, from my friends Becky, Grampa, Fabio and Ba.
Here is the whole list for Best Anthology: > Best American Comics 2007, edited by Anne Elizabeth Moore and Chris Ware > 5, by Gabriel Bá, Becky Cloonan, Fabio Moon, Vasilis Lolos, and Rafael Grampa > Mome, edited by Gary Groth and Eric Reynolds > Postcards: True Stories That Never Happened, edited by Jason Rodriguez > 24Seven, vol. 2, edited by Ivan Brandon
Well, I know this is not important, but it sure is nice. Congrats to Ivan and everyone in the book.
WHO'LL WATCH THE WATCHMEN?When I was a kid, in the corner of where I lived, there was a newsstand that I visit every single day. It was the 80's – So, I don't have to explain what this meant to comics – Each time I went, there was a huge wave of new information to blew my mind. Always something, from all over the world, that get it's way to that small corner in São Paulo, only to drive kids like me nuts. Pages and pages of wonderful art and meaningful stories, panels and panels of a universe that sticks with me untill today.
And one day, in a small super-hero comic book, bought in that same corner, maybe Avengers or even Batman, there was a ad of a new release. Black,white and red, only a clock with some blood on it, written:
WATCHMEN.
That stayed with me. And one morning, I saw it. American format, soft cover, between the adult comics section, behind a brazilian magazine.
WOW.
I was forever changed. I brought it home, read it, and study all the scenes, lines and colors (that I love to hate until today). I couldn't keep my eyes of it. How could something be so perfect? How could this talk to me is such a deep level? It seemed that it was always there, since the dawn of time, in our genes, and this artists only translated it into paper. And next month a new issue. And another. And another...
So many things to see. It took me years to understand all it's depth. I still think I didn't get it all. And that's the fun part. I thought that I would loose interest with time, but it's virtually impossible. It's that same book that grabbed me in that old newsstand. Each page I draw today, I think it is that boy trying to repeat those panels and that pace. I may never do it as good, but it's there with me, in each stroke, each line.
There is many other books that moved me, but this was almost like my first love, my first kiss. I could say that I lost my virginity to it.
I lost my virginity to Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, and I liked it.
RETORNOAfter a long long time, quer dizer, depois de muito tempo, eu volto a Blogar, não sei quando volto, mas estou de volta.
Esse Carnaval eu trabalhei bastante, foram 11 páginas em 3 dias, queria ter feito 20, termino as outras nove até domingo, mas foi o bastante para me sentir um quadrinhista de novo.
É muita coisa que se tem que fazer para se sentir "no jogo" novamente, e não necessariamente é ficar com os amigos artistas ou lançar um livro.
Simplesmente é sentar a bunda na cadeira pegar a caneta e desenhar. Até que no fim você tenha algo que faça sentido, ou uma história para contar.
Esse livro que estou desenhando, uma ficção histórica de 100 páginas terá mais do que só nanquim e guache nas páginas originais, terá todo o sofrimento e dúvida e dor que passei neste último ano.
É um livro sobre perdas, mas um livro sobre recomeços também.
Quem esteve do meu lado vai me ver em cada linha, quem ler o livro vai me conhecer sem nunca antes ter me visto.
De volta às paginas.
PS: Codespoti, fiz uma adaptação do Sharpe para Harper Collins, que pelo visto nunca será publicada... um dia coloco as páginas aqui.
PPS: For those who want to read this in english, send me an email. In a NUT SHELL: Do your comics!!!
YELLO BATTLESThis is the second part of the info-comics NAPOLEON'S BATTLES. This was more cinematographic than the last one. And I love it like this. Because of it's pace and imagery. I like the colors, but as a artist I needed a little more space. As the style is concern I did it more loosely, just like I did my first Napoleon Story FIRE AND ICE.
YELLO FINALThis is the final version of the Napoleon Spread, with text and maps. I this it is a great stuff, great way of telling a story with comics substituting the everyday info-graphics. I hope the readers like it.
YELLO JOBSA two pager done for HISTORIA magazine. This will be a series of stories showing some of the battles fought by Napoleon. The first one is MARENGO. Written by Ricardo Giassetti (with Onça's consulting) and colored by Diego Sanches. On a very personal note, I always like the thumbnail better... no matter how good is the final product.
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YELLO APPERANCEFrom time to time a comic book fellow artist will feature friends in their comics... I appeared in a bunch, and this is the last one I found. Actually Jefferson told me to look for it.
YELLO RECOMMENDATIONI met this guys from o continuo some time ago. They remind me of Fabio Moon and Gabriel Ba in their beginning some 15 years ago. Well, besides the fact that they're not a bunch of twins, they can do great comics for a cheap price.
YELLO HELPThis is a plea for help. Many of you know that we are set to publish our first serialized comic book, PHINEAS POE, a graphic adaptation of the acclaimed neo-noir novel Kiss Me, Judas by Will Christopher Baer. PHINEAS POE #1 was solicited to our national distributor in February for shipping this June. Many of you have already pre-ordered this title.
Ralph Hemecker, the President of Mythic Films, purchased the rights to the Kiss Me, Judas novel at the end of February of this year. In April he sent my company Terra Major a cease-and-desist letter, claiming that his purchase agreement extends to graphic adaptations. Hemecker has also threatened my distributor Diamond Distributors, Inc. Diamond has complied with his cease-and-desist demand and will not distribute PHINEAS POE until our dispute is resolved. Will Christopher Baer and I met and agreed to adapt KMJ to comics before Hemecker entered the scene. We have been working on this for years, in our spare time, for no pay. Terra Major is a self-publishing enterprise. We make no money; we do what we do out of sheer love of comics. The artist Jefferson Costa, of Sao Paulo, Brazil, has produced 300 pages--as much as the graphic novel FROM HELL which was 12 years in the making. The fruits of his efforts can be seen here:
Although I have a legal right to publish the PHINEAS POE comic, I have offered to purchase a license from Hemecker. He has refused me; he will not answer my phone calls or emails; he will not talk to me at all; he will not negotiate with me. According to Baer, Hemecker just wants to "shut us down." It's hard for me to understand why. In his cease-and-desist letter he claims he has plans to produce his own graphic novel version. Again, I don't understand why he can't simply get behind the one we have already completed, and in close collaboration with the author.
Hemecker will seek an injunction against me in the next two weeks. My request to fans of Will Christopher Baer is simply that you download the PDFs above, look at we have done, and if you back it, write Hemecker an email in support of our work. The theory being that you all are the most important fans with respect to Chris' work and Hemecker would not want to alienate you. Again, I don't know why he is so hellbent on crushing us--it's not as if there is any money in comics.
Thank you for your support of indie comics and of the PHINEAS POE comic book. You can contact Hemecker at studio@mythicfilms.com Perhaps with your help Hemecker will be persuaded to sell us a license so we can fulfill our purchase orders from Diamond--so that you can get your copy of the PHINEAS POE comic.
YELLO CREATUREI have decided to create a new short story based on a Literary Challenge from PIAUI magazine every month. Actually, they refused my first two stories, because it's in comics format. But I don't care. It's my way to practice my storytelling skills.
After all, a friend told me, that I have to showcase what I can do besides Drawing (poorly).
YELLO SKETCHES and TERRA MAJORAs you must know by now, I'm part of 24 Seven new album to be printed by IMAGE. My story is called SELF-STARTER, and it was written by the acclaimed Carla Speed Mcneil from the FINDER series. To help me on this I invited the upcoming new talent Diego Sanches, Brazilian illustrator, master of digital arts.
Here is the first look on the main character, colored by him.
And this week the new site from TERRA MAJOR is up. Check it out!!!
YELLO STUFF 4The first page in colors. I don't know if this would be the final version from JAPS, but I think it is close enough from what he planed for it.
TERRA MAJOR NEW RELEASESEX, LIES, AND SAMBA American Indie Comics Publisher Terra Major Teams Acclaimed Noir Novelistwith Brazilian Talent
Santa Barbara, CA (3/26/07) ‹ Santa Barbara-based indie comics publisher Terra Major is set to release its first monthly serialized comic, PHINEAS POE, a graphic adaptation of Kiss Me, Judas, the first book of the critically acclaimed noir trilogy Phineas Poe, by author Will Christopher Baer. Phineas Poe is a disgraced ex-cop who walks out of a Denver psych ward on Christmas Eve and heads for the nearest hotel bar, looking to lay low. Instead, he chats up the wrong girl, a stranger with dark eyes and a scar at the edge of her mouth. Deadly as she is beautiful, Jude is a freelance organ thief who leads a willing Phineas upstairs, cuts him open and tosses him to fate. Reborn in a tub of ice, Phineas chases Jude on a twisted quest for redemption that rapidly blurs the lines between victim and accomplice, lover and torturer. From the black snow of Denver to the scorched Texas desert, Phineas and Jude are plunged ever deeper into the company of pimps, parasites, pushers, and perverts‹a freefall into deeper and darker planes of drug-fueled paranoia and erotic obsession. PHINEAS POE will be illustrated by award-winning MTV Brazil animator Jefferson Costa, making PHINEAS POE the eighth Terra Major title illustrated by an up-and-coming Brazilian artist. Costa's American debut was a short story in GUNNED DOWN, a Western anthology featuring ten Brazilian artists published by Terra Major in 2005. Kiss Me, Judas was first published in 1999 (Viking/Penguin) to wide critical acclaim, including selection by Barnes & Noble as a "Best New Voice." It has been translated to seven languages, and is now in its fifth domestic edition (Fall 2006, MacAdam/Cage). A feature film is in the works. Born in Mississippi in 1966, Will Christopher Baer received an MFA from the Jack Kerouac School at Naropa Institute in Boulder, CO in 1995. Baer has lived and worked in Memphis, New Orleans, Montreal, Milan, San Francisco and Los Angeles, working as a cab driver, homeless counselor, college professor, and journalist. After wrapping the Phineas Poe trilogy with Penny Dreadful (2001) and Hell's Half Acre (2004), Baer began work on the much-anticipated GODSPEED (due Fall '07, MacAdam/Cage), described as "apocalyptic horrornoir." His stories and essays have appeared in numerous print and online publications, notably Nerve and Bomb. His short story "Deception of the Thrush," a Phineas Poe retro spin-off featuring femme fatale Jude as a teenager, was featured in the crime fiction anthology SAN FRANCISCO NOIR (Akashic Books, '05). A longtime reader and collector of comic books, Baer hopes the PHINEAS POE comic will be "the best little love story from hell it can be." PHINEAS POE #1 will hit comic book stores nationwide in June 2007 and will also be available for sale online at http://www.terramajor.com. Each issue will contain 32 pages of story and black-and-white art and will retail for $5.00 US. Terra Major is distributed by Diamond Comics Distributors, Inc. PHINEAS POE #1 is listed this month in their April PREVIEWS catalog for products shipping in June. Item Code: APR07 3955; Page 342.
"Starts off bloody and zooms nonstop to a gripping climax‹not for the faint of heart." -Library Journal
"A paranoid, surreal, drug-induced nightmare full of the hard-boiled noirish spirit of Raymond Chandler." -San Francisco Chronicle
"..stylish neo-noir paranoia and wall-to-wall deceit, smoky poetics and sexual obsession." ‹Chicago Tribune
"If Chuck Palahniuk and Brett Ellis got together in Raymond Chandler1s basement for a drug deal turned cockfight, the unholy result might be Phineas Poe." -Omaha Pulp
YELLO STUFF 2After we developed the AEROBLADE, I came down with the Thumbnails for the 8 pages. This short story was created visually, no script was written whatsoever. That's why some scenes are hard to understand. It was supposed to be a action sequence, but because of it's low number of panels it became too slow. And all the motion and power was in the hands of the artist, me. And, to help the confusion, the story is about a Plane that fights a Mountain-man and get saved by a kid that gets transformed into a huge Black bird, while some ordinary people watch all the action... Got it?
Some of the pages changed in the final version. As you can see below the thumbs, there is a study for the third panel of the first page and some studies for the giant's opening scene. As this was previously posted in the FLIGHT FORUM, we received a lot of suggestions (that we followed). I even had the request for words, but it never worked well.
YELLO STUFFWell, for quite a while I've been doing some stuff and not showing anyone. In one side because I was hoping that something got published, on the other, and most frequently, because I've been working to much in stuff that are not comics related.
Well, forget all that, and just pay attention to some stuff I'll post from now on.
Todays stuff is something that was made for FLIGHT and got lost in the middle of the process. Japs, my partner in this project, lost his grip and never actually finished, not his fault, he also have bills to pay too...
This project was called AVIA, and I'll start showing you the Aeroblade's sketches.
YELLO HATTINGI never thought that one single book could create such a mess in my mind. Not the normal comic book producing mess, like the time it takes to research or draw, or even the months expecting it to sell or people to talk about it. That's normal. It's weird when it haunts you everyday you pick up a copy in your shelf. I have this relationship with Horns of Hattin, my third book. Since day one it was a crazy experience. Even before it's completion it was demanding. A friend of mine was supposed to do it, but it didn't happened. After trying to solve this personal/professional issue (that was never really solved) I had only six months to work on it's 120 pages. And this book was meant to be part of Shane's incomplete trilogy, so it couldn't be done lightly. I had to make it perfect or at least put all my soul in it. I did the later surely. All of it are in those pages, bad drawn and all. All the fears and expectations are printed with the uneven material that I used on those old papers. The originals are pieces of art, not for it's artistic achievements, but for it's deformities. But the book was done. Kako's cover make it looks like a real book. Not just my guts printed in brown. Maybe I took the readers far from his story and too much closer to my hart. This book demanded more that life. We'll never forget all those who died during it's making.
The real deal is that after all this blood shed we had not many reviews or sales. The book is in the oblivion, far from those whom the book was written to.
Today I have mixed feelings about the book. Some days I hate it, some others I only think it is pretty confusing. Shane has a crazy gift of making everyday stories into sagas and myths. He can grab you when you least expected. Some of the best scenes I have ever seen in comics was in my mind while reading his scripts. If Horns of Hattin is any good, is because of him.
YELLO MOYASHIRemember when I said, I'm a Moyashi, you're a Moyashi? Well, here is an better explanation (in Portuguese, so be prepared) at KIAI TV. I'm still a Moyashi, and you probably are so too.
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YELLO PEOVPEOV is an old friend. A great friend, he's also a great artist and a great story teller.
He can work in many medias, he feels free to try and succeed in any art form. Now he's testing the boundaries of what is real and what's fiction in the internet. He and his character shares the same body in the virtual space and having responses in the real one. To many people that's a new thing that the technology allows you to do. For PEOV this is old, he always manage to live between the real and the dream world. Visit PEOV's Myspace and his Blog.
YELLO FRIENDSI have never met Hugo Pratt, nor even in dreams.
Actually for years I had never even seen a page of his work, I did only knew his character, CORTO MALTESE. But, somehow my art, my style and the way I want to tell my stories is much like his own. OK, I know he is a freaking master and I have to be born a hundred times more to draw and to tell stories like him. Even so, different people have said that my work reminds Pratt's. A lie, but a great compliment for the soul.
The first one to say it was Fabio Cobiaco, the greatest of Pratt's disciple. Cobi, as we call him, is a master him self. Publish comics for decades, knows everyone, and kick ass in any style he chooses to render. A very humble man, he knows how to be a friend and how to tell you what you need to hear to move on.
I wish I could be Cobiaco, to have Hugo Pratt dreams. I wish I could see Hugo like him.
YELLO BOOKSThousands of books on the shelf, hundreds of pages in the book, and this almost famous Brazilian actress randomly chooses GUNNED DOWN's STAGECOACH MARYstory pages to open at her pin-up like portrait. Weird.
YELLO SANSOK, this will be a tricky one to all off you that can't read Portuguese. You will just have to trust me on this. Well, this girl, Yuki Kato, is a young comic book artist from the Amazon and a hell of a blogger. She has the best dialogues with imaginary friends and colleges from college. She also have the best name for her Fanzine (the same as her blog's) COMIC SANS. A well know font used by all ill minded people with Corel Draw and Microsoft Word... well everyone but you and me.
If you can read Portuguese, please do visit her site, if you can't, email her asking to translate the talk between her and her spleen about buying an apartment.
Sorry Yuki, but I will post some of your sketches...
YELLO SOCCERDuring the world cup is was watching a random game and I begun to sketch this page. After some months at my deck waiting for some inking I decided to paint it with some water color. It's a little weird, more of a come back to hand painting, but it was fun.
Just need to figure out a text form the captions...
MIDDLE LANDIn the geographic center of Brazil lays BRASILIA. A city born from random sketches, stands like a concrete giant where men rule the country.
There I'll be talking about comics, illustration and art.
FROM YELLA couple of years ago at the Comic Book Convention I had the good fortune of meeting Mr. From Hell, Eddie Campbell. Well, actually it is a pretty fun story, but I'll leave that to another day. Today I want to say that he is finally on line with his own personal blog. If you like his ALEC books or any of his personal work, will understand that he was the first blogger ever, with his very personal surrealistic stories. This same world is translated to the internet, for our own good fortune.
YELLO CARThis is one of my creations in comics that won't be featured at YELLO JELLO. But it sure was a fast and fun gig. A colleague, ADRIANO GRIECCO, that works here at QUATRO RODAS reces with his old PUMA car for a long time now. And after a series of accidents, restaurations and misadventures, he asked me if I could tell his story page by page, panel by panel. I took a look at the pics he had and figured out a way to do it in 7 pages. Well, I hope people laugh reading it as much as I did hearing his stories.
IMAGINE YELLO FXMy good old friend Marcelo Furquim is the Art Editor of one of the best magazines in the face of the earth. True. It's a new magazine published in England by FUTURE PUBLISHING called IMAGINE FX. It's about digital art, but not any digital art, fiction and fantasy stuff (as it's name suggests). Only very good material. They always have great artists profiles and the some awesome tutorials. Not that I've tried to do one, but you can really can tell the difference. Anyway, they put up their Site, where you can subscribe or read some articles and even upload your art for their gallery. The magazine was born from a discussion forum about digital arts actually. They are very strong on the web and on print. The new kind of magazine that can survive this brave new world of crossing medias.
TWELVE LABORS OF D'ANGELOIn the beginning of this year (or the end of the later), my good old friend Oga asked if I wanted to participate in a project where his brother-in-law was working on. The project was a feature movie and the gig was to be the double for the main character's actor. Not exactly doing stunts and stuff, but drawing. First he gave me the script, good story, but I really liked the title "Os doze trabalhos" translate to "The twelve labors". Just like the myth. See their website
Anyway, after talking to the Art Director and the Director (Ricardo Elias) I was in. First I had to create Herakles scketch book. Then to teach the actor to fake drawing, since he needed it to some scenes. No problems so far, did the book, teach the kid, even went to the shooting scene to help them out.
Then ENTERS THE PRODUCER! Very interesting person, the women must have done a millions movies. We had some arguments about payment and contract, but it all work out fine in the end. But I still think she hates me, I'm in the very end of the credits...
In the very end the Art Director lost the Scketch book that I produced (the one in the hand of the actors in the pictures), a shame really. But I end up meeting a lot of nice people, great professionals and all. Although we talked about adapting the movie to comics, it never came through.
I'll do my Motoboy story eventually.
The movie will premiers in Rio, but it is showing in São Paulo this week. See the schedule
It was a whole lot of fun, but now, back to doing comics.
UTOPIC ARTOne is the actual picture that I took while Graziela was dancing. The other is a drawing that I did inspired by her Dance. Read about the performance (in protuguese) in this critique by Helena Kats
And as any other art, there is those who master it. These are the guys who can sell anything: Sand in the desert, ice on Antartica and even Independent Comics on San Diego Comic Book Convention. I'm not saying that independent comics are this or that, I'm just saying that is hard to be the "pusher" of this little big bussines. One of the best dealers (On Line and now Off line too) that I've known is Brian Scott Johnson, the owner and founder of Khepri Comics. He can show you the best line up of indy comics on the web (and in the whole Phoenix County) and also can get you any action figure you want. But the beauty of his work is not only in selecting the finnest books around, it lies on his knowledge of the comic book art form and it's craft. He knows what he sells. I had the chance of working with Brian on his booth at San Diego, and before that when he helped at Terra Major. I learned a great deal, about sales, about not making a sale and about keeping my eye on the ball. I learned enough to use it in my own life and I´m very greatful for that.
Brian is the example of what we need to keep the Comic Book bussines runnig. And if you don't beleive in me, I'm sure that he can change your mind. Just ask his lovely wife Tatum!
MO CHANG AGAINST THE SEAHey MO CHANG fans! Hear This: his new Mini-Comic published by TERRA MAJOR, called IT DREAM TO ME is avaiable at KHEPRI.COM and at COMIX PRESS. Buy one so MO can save money to build a Anti-Tsunami wall in Iceland!
MTV on COMICSThis month on the MTV Magazine Brazil there's an article about Comic Book Artists that work abroad. I'm one of this guys, along with my friends Fabio Moon, Gabriel Ba, Clayton Jr. and other great Brazilian artists. The basic questions where: What the f@#$ do we do, How the f@#$ do we started and what the f@#$ we think about the comic book business in Brazil. There is a very interesting overview of what happens with artists and publishers down here. The good thing is that ,with internet and small printer companies, anyone can put their work out there, no matter what the market says.
CREPAX Jr. Yesterday I've received a friend's email saying:"Tomorrow I'm having lunch with CATERINA CREPAX, daughter of GUIDO CREPAX, the creator of VALENTINA , will you join us?" What do you say to that? YES, OF COURSE, I'll PAY... Whatever my answer was, I went there and met her and her lovely friends. She is a very sweet and talented person. Like her father she's an architect, and like her father, her greatest work is not on the that field. It's on fashion working as a stylist. Great work, as you can see on the picture attached. The best part was when she talked that as a child, she would be drawing very quietly beside him, while he would stay the whole day, even on Christmas, drawing and listening to jazz... Nice memories I believe, that makes me think that I shouldn't be here writing on this blog, I should be at my desk, drawing.
P.1 - TITLE: "The invisible man is blind" P.2 - CAPTION: The invisible man was not born blind P.3 - CAPTION: He was a normal kid P.4 - CAPTION: That sadly decided to became invisible P.5 - CAPTION: He chose to grow up like this P.6 - CAPTION: With an invisible existance
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P.1 - CAPTION: To be unseen P.2 - CAPTION: And cursed not to see P.3 - CAPTION: Because his eyes, being invisible, could not reflect the light P.4 - CAPTION: His days were dark days P.5 - CAPTION: So, he wonders blindly... P.6 - CAPTION: In a world with not much to see
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P.1 - CAPTION: Untill one day P.2 - CAPTION: Light came through P.3 - CAPTION: And then he finally saw P.4 - CAPTION: Somethig out of the ordinary P.5 - CAPTION: And then he finally felt P.6 - CAPTION: And then he finally knew...
WHAT"S COOKING?Last week me and my wife served TAI food for some friends. It was a sucess. I like to think of my self as a good cook, not a real real cook, but a good cook. Everyone that eats my food, enjoys it. But one day it hit me, since I'd never ever followed any recipes exactly and always have created something of my own, I'd never get to do the same exact dish twice, it's always a new experience, and people always enjoyed it.
The point is, I do comics the same way, always something different than before, always a new recipe and some new ingredients... I just hope that people that reads it, just like my guests, enjoy this different, but creative menu.
Anyway, I'll keep on cooking till the dawn of times...
SAMURAI STORYKakzuo Koike, the great master, and writer to LONE WOLF AND CUB, attended the SDCC 2006, invited by his publisher at DARK HORSE. He had to sign some books at the Convetion for one hour, but five minutes to the end, he got very exhausted from all the action, and traveling and had to leave the booth for a moment. Some people that where in line were kindly attended by the Dark Horse people to see if the wanted their book sign by Kazuo Sama while he was resting, they only had to give the book and wait. Everyone agreed. But, Kazuo Sama, knowing that he had agreed to something to this people, would only do it properly. He came back, sat down and signed one by one, with the Japanese stamp and everything for the five minutes he owe them. That's was the most strong and beautiful scene that I have ever seen. That was filled with servitude and commitment. That's when you give the best of you, no matter what.
Life or death.
Kazuo Koike a real Samurai.posted by YELLOJELLO : 11:05:00 PM 6 comments
Monday
YELLO GATEIf you're in San Francisco, or driving by the city, try to find this YJ card and I'll give you a prize. Well, everyone will want to see a picture of you there. The way to this place is worth the efford,even more if it is a sunny day.
TEN LITTLE FRENCH BREADSWell, there are some people in my life that I'm very proud to be friends with. One, or two of this people are Fabio Moon and Gabriel Ba. This two brothers that I've met some 15 years ago in a comic book class along with another great artist, now movie director, PEOV. They work harder than anyone I know and desirve every cent that they earn with their craft. To go as the third triplet to SDCC is one hell of an experience. I've been going to San Diego for 8 years, but of course I had to skip a couple because of money, day job or lack of projects to show, but this two have been going for more than 10 years, non-stop. Their faithfullness to the art, talent and will to suceed is some of the reasons why such great things are happening to them. As we speak Bá must be finishing his CASANOVA series, preparing his great apperance on the new DARK HORSE series UMBRELLA ACADEMY, and Fabio is either writing on his blog, drawing a ULTRA-SECRET project or thinking about his master plan to conquer the planet. Well, I could stay here talking on and on about the TWINZ, but I rather send you to their well writen and always updated Blog (both in english and portuguese) 10 PAEZINHOS
You go and buy their books, and I'll keep following them close by to keep them on track.posted by YELLOJELLO : 3:59:00 PM 1 comments
Sunday
JOHNNY REPEAT IS HEREJason James, the writer of JR, just showed me one of the first copies of the book. It looks great, all the artists, the actions sequences, etc... I'm very proud to be in this book and I really recomend you to get a copy. If you don't beleive me, check what this guys wrote about it:
JOHNNY REPEAT is a 104-page black and white graphic novel with a cover price of $12.95 USD. Available for pre-order in the July edition of Previews out now (Page 248, JUL063025), the book will arrive in stores September 2006. Or check CITIZEN PRESS
... AND OFF TO CALIFORNIAposted by YELLOJELLO : 7:58:00 PM 2 comments
Thursday
ROJO JELLO YJ just got posted at ROJO MAGAZINE BLOG, one of the best publications about graphic art in the world... I feel very proud, in it's third day this site and the works on it is already making a difference...posted by YELLOJELLO : 12:22:00 AM 3 comments
Tuesday
DRESS CODE YELLOWHey, I just received today Pam's first impressions on YELLOJELLO T-SHIRTS This is what she wrote: "...the YelloJello Jr. Ringer T-shirt... arrived in the mail today. It's not one of the American Apparel shirts, but it is far more solid than the Bella shirts and the screening on it is burned deep and looks as if it will last. Happily, it is a nice, muted shade of yellow, as opposed to a shade Far More Bright And Alarming. It's comfy! (Ladies, order one size up from what you think you wear, and I suspect this shirt is wash cold, hang dry.)"
I'm glad Cafepress did a nice job. See for you selves:
SDCC 2006This year at the San Diego Comic Con I'll be showcasing three projects:
1. JOHNNY REPEAT, released by Citizen Press, written by Jason James. This is a collaborations between artists on one big story. I did 12 pages, and I had a lot of fun doing it...
2. IT DREAM TO ME is actually Mo Chang's work. He draw all 32 pages in one whole Saturday, I could never do that. I suggest that you take a look at his web site... MO CHANG
3. AUTUMN. Well, this is tricky. Flavia Sakai, the creator of this piece, is a very talented paper craftwoman, graphic designer and samurai. She invited me to do a collaboration about the Haiku poet Basho. We did a "one page" story , folded as a ancient Japanese letter that comes with a beautifull note book to write your own haikus. It has been printed, hand painted, stamped and folded one by one. There is only 44 copies and I'll bring 10 with me to San Diego. probably it will cost something like US$40 dollars... I hope people buy it. Here's a image of the 2006 Organizer/diary made by her.
YELLO JELLO REDUXAs usual I create stuff and don't know what to do with it. The YELLO JELLO site stayed for at least three years with nothing but a sign saying "under construction", as most of all designers and artists websites. After this three years I produced some short stories and had been published under TERRA MAJOR's banner, so it was time to put something up. By the same time I met Douglas Kawazu, the webwiz that created all versions of YELLO JELLO and helps it every time with something new. This version that you have is supposed to be a little bit more friendly than it's predecessors, that's why you are reading this blog after all, what better way to communicate than communicating? By the way, I'm Brazilian and speak Portuguese, but since most of my audience are Americans or English speaking creatures I will start this blog by writing in English. Remember, I still don't know what to do with it.
So, enjoy the stories, check out the new stuff and buy the books.
See' ya
BD YJposted by YELLOJELLO : 11:28:00 AM 0 comments
