Quickies #52

There'll be a Latin American comics expo going until the end of July, in Maison de l'Amérique Latine en Rhône-Alpes, Lyon, France. Among the artists are Henrique Magalhães, Marcos Nicolau and Shiko.

You might wanna check out João Ruas' website. He's been making covers for Fables, and he draws some baddass disturbing shit.

Roger Cruz releases new artbook

Sources: @malvados, Neorama dos Quadrinhos and Universo HQ.

Quickies #51

Preview of Jungle Girl Omnibus, drawn by Adriano Batista

Aluísio Santos draws Grim Leaper

Sam Hart draws The Coldest City

Marvel and Cirque du Soleil are joining forces to make a comic book about the show KÀ, which will be drawn by Wellinton Alves

A review of Photo de la Favela

Fabrício Nascimento and Renan Carvalheira created a free and collaborative comics creation platform, called The Story Boom, that's going through it's first experimental phases. Feel free to contribute.

Sources: Neorama dos Quadrinhos, @odyrbernardi and Universo HQ.

Quickies #50

Marcio Takara draws Blue Beetle + preview

Mateus Santolouco draws Dial H

Renato Guedes draws Secret Avengers + preview

Edgar Franco draws Moebius

A review of Little Heroes

Sources: @blogpauloramos, História, imagem e narrativas and Neorama dos Quadrinhos.

Quickies #49

Batman: Night of the Owls Booklet #1 (drawn by Rafael Albuquerque) made available for free here.

Manguinha was placed second on Kodansha's 5th Morning International Comic Competition. The comic will soon be available at their website. It's been made available here, and it's good.

A 007-style comic about Rock in Rio is being published in newspapers in Portugal and Spain

Renato Guedes went to a comics expo in Catamarca, Argentina

Preview of Daytripper in French

Sources: Neorama dos Quadrinhos and Universo HQ.

Quickies #48

Interview with Mike Deodato Jr.

A Chuck Billy game is being developer for Facebook and Orkut. Not sure what languages besides Portuguese it'll be available in. Pics here (on the right).

A preview of Serenity will be distributed in the American Free Comic Book Day

Ed Benes will draw Detective Comics

A new three-part arc of Aquaman will be drawn by Ivan Reis, inked by Joe Prado, and colored by Rod Reis and will have a Brazilian character.

You can play a PacMan-style PacTubby in the Brazilian publishers of Little Lulu's website, among other games, here.

Sources: Neorama dos Quadrinhos and Universo HQ.

Quickies #47

Grampá and Albuquerque will write Batman

Luke Ross will draw Ultimate Comics Ultimates

Read a free issue of Vampirella drawn by Fabiano Neves

Gustavo Duarte is preparing another of his mute comics. All we know is that this one'll be longer, 70 to 80 pages, about a Japanese style monster attack to Brazil, and it should come out in august.

Matt Seneca Wrote a very flattering post about Diego Gerlach's O Plexo Holístico

Claudio Seto enters the Comiclopedia

Kako is making a comic version of Crime and Punishment, to be released in the second volume of The Graphic Canon

Sources: Blog dos Quadrinhos, Neorama dos Quadrinhos, Quadrinhos Autorais and Universo HQ.

Quickies #46

Roger Cruz will draw American Vampire. The post also mentions how what Cruz does for super-hero comics isn't his true style.

Holy Avenger will be printed again. Hopefully, this'll be the definitive edition.

Interview with Wilson Vieira in Italian

Julia Bax and Amanda Grazini will draw Pink Daïquiri

José Roberto Pereira, the crazy old mothafucka, writer of the first issues of Megaman, just died from cancer.

Sources: @estranhow, Neorama dos Quadrinhos and Universo HQ.

Quickies #45

200 Sueños Ilustrados is a collection of illustrations made by Mexican, Spanish and Brazilian artists, based on children's dreams

That Monica's Gang/Tezuka crossover is finally coming out. The characters will save the Amazon forest, promote sustainabilty and stuff. It'll be published in Turma da Mônica Jovem #43 and #44 (february and march).

Mauricio de Sousa got the Bing Xin Child Literature award with an illustrated book of a Monica's Gang interpretation of classic tales

Adriana Melo will draw Cat-Woman

There'll be an exhibit of La Bouche du Monde, French/Brazilian magazine, in Toulouse, France

Sources: @4mundo, @UltraLafa and Universo HQ.

Quickies #44

Interview with Fábio Moon about Serenity

Adão Iturrusgarai's Rocky & Hudson is on a small list of good gay-themed comics published in Spain

The Monica's Gang website took part in the SOPA blackout

A cartoon on internet freedom

Morro da Favela, by André Diniz, a biography of photographer Maurício Hora, will be published in France (through Des Ronds dans L'O Éditions, title not yet defined) and in England (through Self Made Hero, as Picture a Favela, being sold also in the USA).

Rafael Albuquerque will draw Batman

Quero ser Turma da Mônica (I wanna be Monica's Gang) is a new iSomething app that makes a Monca's Gang style cartoon out of you. It's free and it's already the number one top download for iPad in Brazil, and number two for iPhone.

French release and preview of José Roosevelt's Ce #6

Five Brazilian comics are running for the BD Prix Alternative of Angoulême. It's the second time Brazilians are nominated. The comics are Silêncio, São Jorge da Mata Escura, Café Espacial #10, Lorde Kramus and Escorpião de Prata. Covers here.

The Roach, a super-hero parody by Giorgio Capelli, has been released digitally in the UK

Sources: Blog dos Quadrinhos, @elgroucho, @MarinaSchnoor, Neorama dos Quadrinhos and Universo HQ.

Quickies #43

Sítio do Picapau Amarelo, a famous series of child books, has ben made into an animation. Cartoon Network bought the rights, and it'll be exhibited throughout Latin America.

Amilcar Pinna will release his first independent comic book, called 02+01=00. He's more known for working for Marvel and DC, but he does some independent stuff too, where he can experiment more freely. In this "intergalactic porn", he tries to pay homage to some of those who influenced him, like Moebius, Otomo, Manara and Mucha. You can get a copy here.

Daytripper will be published in France

Gabriel Andrade draws Ferals

Meu Pé de Laranja Lima is a famous Brazilian book for teens published in 1968. In 2003, it was made into a comic book in Korea. Only now that adaptation is going to be published in Brazil.

Luke Ross and Daniel HDR will draw The Avengers

Sources: @blogpauloramos, Neorama dos Quadrinhos, Universo HQ and Vice Brasil.

Quickies #42

Doomer in Mexican art magazine inkult #13

Fabiano Neves draws new Robocop cover

The Mauricio de Sousa and Osamu Tezuka crossover I mentioned here will be about the Amazon forest and should be released in february, 2012.

Bleeding Cool noticed that the FIQ (Internation Comic Book Festival) attended more people than the San Diego Comic-Con. In a Blog dos Quadrinhos post, Paulo Ramos stated that, on one hand, the entrance to the FIQ was free, while in San Diego it was paid; on the other hand, the USA has a much more solid comics market than Brazil's. Afonso Andrade, this year's FIQ's coordinator, said that "Comparisons are hard and dangerous. They're quite different events."

Brazilian Osamu Tezuka fans chose tomorrow, december 17, to celebrate Tezuka Day. Tezuka fans all over the world are invited to participate. You can check it out on twitter or facebook.

Sources: Blog dos Quadrinhos, Neorama dos Quadrinhos and Universo HQ.

Quickies #41

Little Heroes, a little homage to American superheroes by Estevão Ribeiro and several artists, will be published in print in the US by 215 Ink very soon. Instead of a single album, it'll be a short series, and that means more covers. A digital version is already available for sale here. The first album (or short series) is more DCish, but they're already working on a second and more marvelish one.

I thought you'd like to know that Brazil has yet ANOTHER pair of twin comic artists, Marcelo Costa and Magno Costa. They just released Matinê and Oeste Vermelho is coming out of the oven. And they have a Flickr.

Wilson Vieira and Daniel Brandão just published a short story called Il Pizzo (The Extorsion) in the Italian magazine Walhalla

Daytripper is among Library Journal's top ten 2011 graphic novels. Twitted by Gabriel Bá.

BDLP is a fanzine gathering lusophone comic artists and writers, that is Angolan, Brazilian and Portuguese.

Sources: @blogpauloramos, Neorama do Quadrinhos and Universo HQ.

Quickies #40

This year's Belo Horizonte International Comics Festival was the biggest ever, with 148.000 visitors

Fábio Moon in Dark Horse Presents #6

Marcio Takara draws The Incredibles

An interview with LEO (in French). He talks about comic festivals, sexuality and religion.

A short interview with Doomer. Also, he's in the new Pindura calendar.

A new blog rescues the art of old school artist Miguel Penteado. Check it out here (lots of horror stuff).

Sources: Neorama dos Quadrinhos and Universo HQ.

Quickies #39

A BDjornaleco (a tiny special issue of BDjornal) about Spacca has been released in Portugal

João Henrique Lopes de Souza's Elements of Manga Style has ben released in English

The Nix Side is a new webseries about a girl that works in a comic shop. She wants to be a comic artist, as her father had been, but there's this big comics company owner who's a bad guy, and the series is full of pop/nerd culture references, etc. As far as I've seen, it has some good moments. And the chicks are cute. So far, there are 4 chapters, 6 minutes long each. The translation seems pretty good.

Daniel HDR released his new sketchbook

We're having tons of releases at the Belo Horizonte International Comics Festival. Usually, I only tell you about those that may be of more immediate interest to the international community, but I gotta make an exception. Mauricio de Sousa announced a new line of Monica's Gang graphic novels.

Ana Luiza Koehler draws Carthage #2

Sources: Neorama dos Quadrinhos and UniversoHQ.

Quickies #38

Ricardo Manhães is drawing Socialos, a parody of the French Socialist Party, written by Olivier Petit. It'll be published in April, during the elections.

A full page of the New York Times' International Herald Tribune about José Mojica Marins and/or Coffin Joe. I heard about it here.

Portuguese BDjornal publishes the first pages of Julio Shimamoto's Musashi

Will Conrad draws X-Men

Vidas Imperfeitas will be published in the US by Fitztown (Imperfect Lives?). I've been reading that comic and what I can say is, although that's Mary Cagnin first real work, with all that implies, she's got quite a lot of potential. For now, you can check out her DevianART and the comic in Portuguese.

Sources: @elgroucho, Neorama dos Quadrinhos and Universo HQ.

Quickies #37

Ivan Reis, Joe Prado and Rod Reis draw Aquaman (preview here)

Ig Guará and Ruy José draw Blue Beetle

Rafael Albuquerque in Avilés

Bá, Moon and Albuquerque weren't the only Brazilians awarded in the 2011 Harvey. Manoel Magalhães and Osmarco Valladão drew a story published in Popgun #4, Best Anthology.

Ronaldinho Gaucho's Team is a new cartoon being shown in Italy. A teaser here (what the hell happened to Franklin's hair?)

Luiz Gê and Spacca have been invited to the 22nd Amadora Festival, in Portugal

Sources: Neorama dos Quadrinhos and Universo HQ.

Quickies #36

Diógenes Neves draws Demon Knights

A video of the Amy a Mil Traços exhibit

Alexandre Jubran, cover artist for Conan in Brazil, released a barbarian artbook

Mauricio de Sousa and J. J. Marreiro pay homage to Sergio Bonelli

I found totally by chance a tumblr with translated Brazilian comic strips called Brazilian Comics (so original. Not to be mistaken with Bira's Brazilian Comics). It's been ongoing for a year, with recent and top quality strips.

Sources: Neorama dos Quadrinhos and Universo HQ.

Quickies #35

9/11 flash expo by Brazilian cartoonists

Gabriel Bá draws Casanova: Avaritia

Turma da Mônica Jovem was mentioned in the polemic about Justice League #1. Case you don't know, DC was telling everyone that that magazine was the best selling comic of the year, with 200,000 copies. Teen Monica's Gang #34 sold 500,000 copies.

Now we have Mónica Jóven (in Spanish) and Teen Monica (in English) (seen here and here). Those comics will be sold in Brazil, with a new issue every three months, aimed at language students (but telling your comic shop to import some would be a nice idea). The first issues in Spanish and English match the fifth issue in Portuguese.

Greg Tocchini will be in Rouen, France, this wednesday, giving autographs

Sources: Neorama dos Quadrinhos and Universo HQ.

Quickies #34

Smurf Wars. More pics here.

Mesmo Delivery Kids

El Chavo del ocho is a Mexican TV show that started in the 70's, quite popular in Brazil. They also made comic books based on the series, and that allows me to post it here. In 2008, guys from the Brazilian TV show Pânico met Quico (Carlos Villagrán) and gave him a square ball. In 2010, they gave 14 months of rent to Señor Barriga (Édgar Vivar).

The Amy a Mil Traços exhibit in São Paulo, a tribute to Amy Winehouse.

There's this badass mustache rock band called Black Drawing Chalks. They're also graphic artists, so we got the videoclip below. You can download some of their music here and here.



Sources: Garimpo and Universo HQ.

Quickies #33

Gustavo Duarte makes yet another mute comic book, Birds. The formula is repeated, anthropomorphic animals and a mix of comedy and other genre (Có was sci-fi, Taxi was jazzy, Birds is a thriller).

Marcelo Braga (Gustavo Duarte's brother?) released his Diburros Sketchbook 2011. Here you can read his impressions on the San Diego Comic-Con (in Portuguese), see lots of pics and a list of stores in the US where you can buy Diburros and Birds.

Bira made a trip to South Korea. It seems that our countries are tightening their comic bonds. In his blogs, there's a LOT of text (Portuguese and/or English) and pics about both the events in Korea and Brazilian comics.

Opentrain seems to be becoming semi-known. The Megaman Network and The Mechanical Maniacs have posted about their New Adventures of Megaman scanlation.

Gisele Bündchen recently became the United Nations Environment Programme's Goodwill Ambassadress, and will be a character in a Cartoon Network animation, Gisele & the Green Team.

Sources: Blog dos Quadrinhos, @blogpauloramos, Neorama dos Quadrinhos, @opentrain and Universo HQ.