Silly Symphonies V - French Star Wars

a bit more Toppi

A final batch of pics from Sergio Toppi's exhibition on Ângouleme back in 2008. Enjoy!

More Sergio Toppi

More photos from the Sergio Toppi's exhibition on Ângouleme back in 2008. Enjoy!

Sergio Toppi

Taking a cue from my previous post, here are a few photos taken of original artwork by italian master illustrator Sergio Toppi, who had a whole exhibition for himself back in 2008 at Ângouleme. Gorgeous drawings!

More Hugo Pratt

Back in January 2008, we were lucky enough to visit the french city of Angoulême for its Annual Bande-Dessinée Festival. It was a once in a lifetime experience to witness a whole city transfigured by the imaginary of comics. There were some aspects of the overall event that I found less bright, particularly for a foreigner's first time, but I'd say that all in all it was quite positive and enlightening as an experience - it certainly made me understand the whole comics/bande-dessinée/manga world as an even more commercial enterprise than what I'd already suspected. On the other hand, there was the unique opportunity of seeing original artwork and pages at expos spreadout through town. I was particularly impressed with a couple of delightful pieces by the great late Hugo Pratt, which I now present here. Naturally the photos don't do it justice, but I think it's still worth sharing. Enjoy!

Hugo Pratt

Manara

2009 Pulp Factory Awards

My dear editor and friend Ron Fortier of Airship 27 just told me my work on Jim Anthony Super-Detective volume 1 got nominated for the final ballot of the 2009 Pulp Factory Awards for Best Pulp Interior Illustrations. To celebrate, here's a couple of my illos from the book. Cheers!

Hergé Too

Hergé

More Moebius

Moebius Too

Moebius

Daniel Clowes

Little Drummer Boy

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

The Small One

An excerpt from one of my childhood movies. This is copyright, trademark and all that stuff Disney Corporation.

Crumb

Xaime!

An interview with one of my favorite contemporary american cartoonists.

My favorite things

Silly Symphonies IV - Superman II

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Season of Madness at Amazon

So, I got two good news this week.

First was getting my comp copy of "Season of Madness" - the latest book I've illustrated for Airship 27 productions.

Second was knowing the book is now available at Amazon.

So what is the book about?
When a group of men and women throughout London begin exhibiting strange psychotic behavior, Dr. John Seward, from the Dracula affair, is brought into the case. Faced with a mystery beyond his realm of experiences, he turns to Sherlock Holmes' trusted companion, Dr. Watson, for help. Together these two men of science must uncover the riddle behind a white powder drug with the ability to drive people mad before the entire population is infected. Also includes a special bonus story, "The Electric Shark", starring Her Majesty's Secret Agent, Quincy Harker.



Last but not least, credit where credit's due, "Season of Madness" was written by Aaron Smith, features illustrations and back-cover by myself Pedro Cruz and cover by Rob Davis and Shane Evans.



You know how having a book around will make you seem all hip and intellectual. It also makes for a lovely Christmas present. Get one for your lovely half, for you mom, for your dad, for your brothers and sisters, for gramps and even for your mascot, be it cat, dog or parakeet. Don't forget to treat yourself with one copy too. Here's the amazon link. Now be a good sport and buy it.

Silly Symphonies II - Batman

Silly Symphonies I - Superman

SEASON OF MADNESS - A doctor Watson adventure

Finally, my second book for AIRSHIP27 is out!

When a group of men and women throughout London begin exhibiting strange psychotic behavior, Dr. John Seward, from the Dracula affair, is brought into the case. Faced with a mystery beyond his realm of experiences, he turns to Sherlock Holmes' trusted companion, Dr. Watson, for help. Together these two men of science must uncover the riddle behind a white powder drug with the ability to drive people mad before the entire population is infected. Also includes a special bonus story, "The Electric Shark", starring Her Majesty's Secret Agent, Quincy Harker.

Written by Aaron Smith,illustrated by Pedro Cruz, cover by Rob Davis and Shane Evans, edited by Ron Fortier and published by Cornerstone books.

You can buy it here.

When genius collide!

Joann Sfar and Kerascöet, two, or rather three, of my favourite french cartoonists directed this videoclip for Dyonisos.Enjoy!

WHYM - post scriptum

WHYM is dead, long live WHYM!

So where do we stand? Well, first of all I'd like to thank you, dear reader, for following this comic through these long months. It's been quite a trip since early this year, crafting the longest sustained graphic narrative I've ever done on my own. Your comments and support have been invaluable. I sincerely hope you've enjoyed it!

Like I said WHYM is over... Nevertheless, other stories will follow. Stories to be read and enjoyed as self-contained entities, with their own peculiar visual identity, but also capable and willing to put WHYM under a different perspective and even answer some of the unsolved questions of this first comic, particularly some that WHYM’s final page hopefully summoned. I won't go into more detail describing these other future comics as I believe that over-explaining one's own work usually tends to suck the magic out of it. Instead, when the time comes, hopefully sometime next year, I'll let you enjoy them in the same way as I did with WHYM, allowing the work to speak for itself and you, the reader, to draw your own conclusions.

In the meantime, we'll proceed with a new schedule for the blog: once a week, every Saturday, with some writings or drawings as usual.

Stay tuned!

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Season of Madness - teaser

We interrupt our ongoing serialized comic WHYM to announce another thrilling pulp project from Airship 27 with interior illustrations by yours truly. Coming soon!

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