YELLO REMAINS

The two last spreads from NAPOLEON series. Done and done.

YELLO FINAL WORKS

YELLO FINAL

This 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 JOBS

A 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.

YELLO STUFF 5

'Nuff said.

YELLO CREATURE

I 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 STUFF 4

The 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.

I love the way he does Skies.

Click here for another example from FIRE and ICE.

YELLO BOOKS

Thousands of books on the shelf, hundreds of pages in the book, and this almost famous Brazilian actress randomly chooses GUNNED DOWN's STAGECOACH MARY story pages to open at her pin-up like portrait. Weird.

YELLO SOCCER

During 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...

YELLO PEOPLE @ BRASILIA

IMAGINE YELLO FX

My 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.

Well, check it out for your self: IMAGINE FX WEBSITE

Furquim is also a great painter as the ones he publishes. He's the artist behind PREY #2 Cover.

The other art is from when he was a little kid, give the guy a break, ok.

UTOPIC ART

One 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

COFFEE IS FOR CLOSERS

Sales is an art form.

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!

BASHO

JOHNNY REPEAT REVIEWS

Once more Citizen Press Book catch the attention of reviewers.
Congrats to Jason James once more.

COMIC PANTS

NEWSARAMA

MTV on COMICS

This 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.

LOVE WALL

This is something I did with a help of some friends.
An intervention in a cemetery in Sao Paulo, filled with love and sorrow.