H-alt #9 nomeado para Melhor Fanzine no Amadora BD 2020
O número 9 da revista H-alt, em que participei com mais um episódio da versão em português da minha BD "O Jogo de Nil", também está nomeado para os Prémios Nacionais de Banda Desenhada na categoria de Melhor Fanzine/ Publicação Independente no Festival Amadora BD 2020. Parabéns ao editor Sérgio Santos e aos restantes autores que colaboraram neste número!
H-alt #9, to which I contributed with another installment of the portuguese version of my comic "The Fine Game of Nil", has also been nominated for the National Comic Book Awards under the category of Best Fanzine/ Independent Publication at the Festival Amadora BD 2020. Congratulations to editor Sérgio Santos and the other contributors to this issue!
Labels: Amadora BD, Amadora BD 2020, BD, comics, Festival Internacional de BD da Amadora, Nil, O Jogo de Nil, Pedro Cruz, Sérgio Santos, The Fine Game of Nil
posted by Pedro Cruz at 12:12 PM
Don't let yourself be deceived by the pop culture contraptions. Jason is a genius and his comics are among the very best being done right now. Really, there's no other way for me to put it. Each new comic from this norwegian cartoonist feels like a gold nugget found on the river sands of the comic book market. Classic but fresh; humble yet bold; succint and sophisticated, All at the same time. Jason's comics are never hard on the eyes, they always read smoothly, his storytelling is crystal clear and his characters feel much more human (for antropomorphic animals) than the usual stack of types that populate comics.
What's not to like about this bande-dessinnee, the long-lost love child of David Lynch and Walt Disney? Much has been said about comics innability to genuinely scare but this is one of the creepiest works I've ever experienced, in or outside comics. Answers remain elusive after a first reading and subsequent raids into this wordless masterpiece will only deepen the mysteries. Coincidentally, I remember reading somewhere in the internet that it could be interpreted as Nicolas De Crecy's comeback on Sylvain Chomet for the uncredited inspiration, to put it mildly, that The Triplettes of Belleville (which I quite like, btw) owe to the creative works of De Crecy and that terminated any hopes readers might've had of a Leon La Came follow-up from the duo. All in all, whichever way you wish to read it, this is one of those comics that will linger on long after its final panel. Like I said, creepy...
Para quem ainda não sabe, participo como desenhador em quatro pranchas de BD na nova antologia da 
Está prevista para amanhã, dia 9 de Novembro, por volta das 15h30, a apresentação de CRUMBS no auditório do Festival Internacional de BD da Amadora. 
Foi com surpresa e agrado que tomei conhecimento da nomeação do meu livro "THE MIGHTY ENLIL" para os prémios do Festival de BD da Amadora na categoria de melhor álbum de autor português em língua estrangeira. Deixo aqui os meus agradecimentos ao editor Pepedelrey e ao André Oliveira, sem os quais esta edição do livro e a sua nomeação não teriam ocorrido.
For a kid raised on a unhealthy diet of Star Wars, 1980's science-fictions movies with incredible synth soundtracks and pre-CGI special effects, plus all sorts of tv shows riding on George Lucas coattails like Battlestar Galactica, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century or V, the BD albums of Valérian & Laureline were the REAL DEAL. Its debut album, La Cité des Eaux Mouvantes was one of the first comics I clearly remember reading over and over and over again... I think I was half convinced the world was indeed going to "end" in 1986. After that, all the subsequent albums just kept getting better and better and better until the dyptic "Metro Châtelet, Direction Cassiopée"/"Brooklyn Station, Terminus Cosmos", imho the series unforgettable zenith. And I still have a crush on Laureline, definitely one of my all-time favorite comic book heroines.
