YELLO SKETCHES and TERRA MAJOR

As 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 ROBOTS

The second volume of 24 Seven anthology is coming!

Check out this preview, and try to find with one is mine...

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 STUFF 3

This is the First page. And the second version of the third panel, with the cockpit, suggested by Kazu from Flight.

TERRA MAJOR NEW RELEASE

SEX, LIES, AND SAMBA
American Indie Comics Publisher Terra Major Teams Acclaimed Noir Novelist with 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.

See the Previews

Contact the Editor: shane@terramajor.com

Praise for the original novel:

"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 2

After 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.

Next week I'll post the first pages.

YELLO STUFF

Well, 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 HATTING

I 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.

So, this must be his making: http://graphicnovelscomics.suite101.com/article.cfm/thehornsofhattin

YELLO MOYASHI

Remember 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.

YELLO TUBE

YELLO MOVIE

YELLO PEOV

PEOV 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 FRIENDS

I 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 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 SANS

OK, 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...

YELLOOGLE

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

MIDDLE LAND

In 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 YELL

A 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 FEET

YELLO CAR

This 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.

VIDA E MORTE SEVERINA

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.

YELLO STICKER

TWELVE LABORS OF D'ANGELO

In 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.

YELLO KIAI

I'm a moyashi, you're a moyashi, we're all are moyashis.

MOYASHI BLOG

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