HQ MIX 2009

Desenhista Revelação

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.

Valeu Naninho.

YELLO ON SALE

Finalmente o livro está a venda em todas as melhores casas do ramo. E também pela internet.

COMPRE O CATADOR DE BATATAS AQUI!!!!

Hey, people, the book is available in the Internet.

BUY IT HERE!

YELLO RADIO

YELLO YELL FOR HELP

CLICK HERE NOW!

WHY COMICS?

YELLO PHOTOS

YELLO LAUNCH

Catação, classficação e armazenamento

A 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.

YELLO SAMURAI

IT'S DONE

I 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.

Here is the last spread.

YELLO AWARDS 2008

Remember 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.

YELLO REMAINS

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

RETORNO

After 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 FINAL WORKS

YELLO BATTLES

This 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.

WAR POETRY

Shane is a genius. Even when he call his soldiers to battle.

TERRA MAJOR

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 ERRORS

Everyone makes mistakes while doing comics... This one is easy to spot.

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 DESKTOP

YELLO APPERANCE

From 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 RESOLUTION OF THE WEEK

Somethimes you just have to go back and draw. Just that simple.

PEOV's NY Chronicle

YELLO RECOMMENDATION

I 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.

Now they have a new site Up. Check it out.

YELLO STUFF 5

'Nuff said.

YELLO HELP

This 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:

http://www.terramajor.com/POE01.lores.pdf

http://www.terramajor.com/POE02.lores.pdf

http://www.terramajor.com/POE03.lores.pdf

http://www.terramajor.com/POE04.lores.pdf

http://www.terramajor.com/POE05.lores.pdf

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 LOVE

YELLO MUST GO!

It's a sale, everything back to cheap-land!!!

Get your YJ shirt now!

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 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.