titsay
Kiana Khansmith
d e v o n
todays bird
almost home
Peter Solarz
i don't do bad sauce passes
★
pixel skylines
noise dept.
hello vonnie
Xuebing Du
Three Goblin Art
NASA
Monterey Bay Aquarium
izzy's playlists!
Origami Around
sheepfilms
No title available
dirt enthusiast
seen from Malaysia
seen from Greece
seen from United States
seen from Finland
seen from United States
seen from United Kingdom
seen from Germany
seen from United States
seen from Germany
seen from Türkiye
seen from United Kingdom
seen from United States
seen from United Kingdom
seen from United States
seen from Czechia
seen from Poland
seen from Greece
seen from Italy
seen from United States
seen from Italy
@comicheart
AMADORA BD has ended and we couldn't be happier with this first experience. We thank the festival and its visitors that provided us with an intense few days, the artists that trusted us with their work and their fans without whom this project wouldn't exist. We're still recovering from these days but already preparing our next event.
Stay tuned for some great news:)
The last weekend of AmadoraBD has started and we have new products from more than 10 different artists available. It's your last chance to visit the festival and check what we have.
Last saturday took place at AmadoraBD announcement of the winners of this year's national comics awards and some of our artists were awarded:
-Loki: Agent of Asgard Vol.2 drawn by Jorge Coelho won Best Foreign Album from a Portuguese Author
-Crumbs, in which participated Osvaldo Medina, Joana Afonso and Ricardo Venâncio, won Best Album in Foreign Language from a Portuguese Author;
Our congratulations to the winners! We hope to see them more often at these and other prizes.
Ricardo Venâncio at Lucca Comics and Games
Ricardo Venâncio, one of our artists and regular collaborator of the italian publisher Passenger Press, is going to Lucca this year.
Ricardo Venâncio is scoring major points recently. After working on the past two years as a guest artist on Passenger’s latest anthologies, Apocalypse Tarot and Racconti Indiani, Ricardo and Passenger Press collaborate again for a third year in a row, this time on a 300 plus collective book called Amazzoni.
Amazzoni, Storie Della Progenitrice is a stand alone prequel to the bigger anthology, with 30 pages illustrated by Ricardo from an original concept by writer Alessandro Cremonesi.
At the same time that Amazzoni is coming out, Ricardo is joining Vito Delsante and Dean Haspiel, to contribute to The Purple Heart, the story about a US Navy soldier who becomes Brooklyn’s cosmic guardian after the city secedes from the USA. The webcomic is part of a shared universe called New Brooklyn that has been announced recently at the New York Comic Con. The project will be going online in 2016 at LINE Webtoons and you can know more about it over at Over at Newsrama.
If you're in Italy and want to meet Ricardo, he will be at Lucca Comics in a few days signing Amazzoni and other works at the Passenger Press booth, Padiglione Giglio, stand E330, from Friday November 30th until Sunday November 1st."
If you can’t go to Lucca, don’t worry, Ricardo is selling watercolors, illustrations and original pages, some from Racconti Indiani, at ComicHeart. Soon, pages from Amazzoni will be available at ComicHeart. If you want to make a reservation go to the Contact page and state which pieces you are looking for.
Attending the #NewYorkComicCon this weekend?
Jorge Coelho is staying all 4 days at booth K15 while Ricardo Venâncio is visiting publishers, presenting his new project Purple Heart, and doing some commissions at booth K15 during the weekend.
Who’s who? Joana Afonso
We finally have a lady artist joining our ranks, Joana Afonso, who is also our youngest member.
Joana Afonso was born in 1989 in Lisbon. With 23 years, she starts being published abroad in the Polish fanzine Ziniol and in the USA in Outlaw Territory Vol.3 published by Image.
She studied Painting at Lisbon’s Faculdade de Belas Artes and is now a teacher in the same institution. She does freelance work in illustration and comics, is a member of The Lisbon Studio and collaborates with newspapers, magazines and producers with illustrations and conceptual art.
With O Baile she won Best Album at AmadoraBD 2013 and Best Art and Color at Prémios Profissionais de Banda Desenhada (PPBD). Recently, Living Will won Central Comics Trophy for Best Art and PPBD for Other Publications.
In 2014 she did her first solo work, Deixa-me Entrar, published in the same year she was the featured artist at AmadoraBD.
Joana’s work has been exhibited a bit all over the world, in Warsaw, Poland, Treviso Comics Festival in Italy and Berkshire Art Association in Pittsfield, USA.
You can follow Joana through her Facebook and Tumblr page, Twitter account, her official webpage and if you’re interested in acquiring some of her art, visit her page at ComicHeart.
In the USA:
Outlaw Territory Vol.3 (Image, 2013)
In Portugal:
Love will tear us apart (Ziniol #10, 2011)
BDLP #1 (Extractus/Estúdio Olindomar, 2011)
O Baile (Kingpin Books, 2012)
Zona Desenha (Zona, 2012)
Living Will #1 (Ave Rara, 2013)
Se Vale a Pena (Revista CAIS, 2013)
Living Will #2 (Ave Rara, 2013)
Living Will #3 (Ave Rara, 2014)
Crumbs (Kingpin Books, 2014)
Deixa-me Entrar (Polvo, 2014)
Who’s who? Osvaldo Medina
It’s been a while since we introduced a new artist. Today Osvaldo Medina joins the ranks of artists at ComicHeart.
Osvaldo Medina is literally ComicHeart's first international artist. He was born in 1973 in Luanda, Angola but, somehow his citizenship is Cape Verdean.
He came to Portugal when he was 2 years old and studied drawing and animation.
After doing illustrations for books and magazines, he started working as an animator for several series such as Patinhos, Jardim da Celeste and Escrotinhos.
He then worked in a lot of animation movies for well regarded comics creators such as Pássaros for Filipe Abranches, Sem dúvida. Amanhã for Pedro Brito, Jantar em Lisboa for André Carrilho or Januário e a Guerra from André Ruivo which won best portuguese movie at Cinanima.
After working on a couple of unpublished graphic novels, in 2008 he finally publishes his first work in the fanzine Efeméride dedicated to the SuperMan in the XXI century theme.
A few months later his first graphic novel is published. A Fórmula da Felicidade, written by Nuno Duarte, is published through Kingpin Books marking the start of his long stay with this publisher.
In 2009, Osvaldo draws Mucha, written by David Soares to great appraise of the portuguese comics scene.
In 2011, Osvaldo works in a different Kingpin Books series with Fernando Dordio on a new C.A.O.S. book intitled Agentes do C.A.O.S.: Nova O.R.D.E.M. followed a prequel to the Super Pig series Roleta Nipónica winning the national comics award for best artist. Thanks to this award, his work for this book was featured on the 2014 AmadoraBD festival.
After a few years working for animation movies and doing illustrations, Osvaldo returns to comics last year to draw Hawk, written by André Oliveira, which won the national award for best script.
Later this year Osvaldo will publish Kong, The King, a new take on the King Kong myth, a full graphic novel with no dialogues.
You can follow Osvaldo through his Facebook page and Blog and if you’re interested in acquiring some of his work, visit his page at ComicHeart.
In Portugal:
A Fórmula da Felicidade Vol.1 (Kingpin Books, 2009)
Mucha (Kingpin Books, 2009)
A Fórmula da Felicidade Vol.2 (Kingpin Books, 2010)
Agentes do C.A.O.S.: Nova O.R.D.E.M. (Kingpin Books, 2011)
Roleta Nipónica (Kingpin Books, 2013)
Hawk (Kingpin Books, 2014)
Another one. #garnet #stevenuniverse #watercolour #watercolor #watercolorworkouts #painting #cartoons #crystalgems #process #deskshot #commission
Ricardo Venâncio is doing an commision call to all comics fans!
He’s in need of work after some personal troubles and projects that were postponed. Starting at 10€, he’s doing busts and full figures, inked or watercolored. Go to his blog to know more.
At ComicHeart, we’re doing a 20% discount until the end of August on all of Ricardo Venâncio’s work! Use the code RICARDO20 and get 20% off on his original pages, illustrations and watercolors.
Other Artists: Sean Gordon Murphy
Sean Gordon Murphy is certainly not some unknown name for many of you.
Sean Murphy started working professionally before graduating on several Dark Horse Comics projects and titles from various publishers.
He started being known with the miniseries Batman/Scarecrow: Year One - with Bruce Jones - and the graphic novel Off Road for Oni Press.
He quickly rose to be a fan favorite by drawing several Vertigo titles such as Hellblazer with Jason Aaron and Si Spencer, Joe the Barbarian with Grant Morrison, both for Vertigo, Punk Rock Jesus which he wrote and drew and The Wake and American Vampire with Scott Snyder.
Recently he's known for creating Chrononauts with Mark Millar which has a confirmed movie adaptation even before the book came out!
Recently we got hold of two pages from a short story Sean did with James Patrick for an Angel anthology.
Angel was a spinoff tv series from Buffy that also originated a series of comics titles. In the tv series, Lindsey McDonald, a lawyer at Wolfram & Hart, is at different times an ally and enemy of Angel and at a certain point, he starts dating Eve, Liaison to the Senior Partners of Wolfram & Hart.
In the tv series it was never shown how Lindsey and Eve met but in the anthology Angel: Masks, one of the short stories dealt with how they met for the first time.
These pages, page 9 and page 10 of the short story Pencils & Paperclips are precisely the point in the story where both characters meet. We also have both pages for sale at a special price.
Who’s who? Rui Lacas
Today we present you our most recent comicbook artist to join the project, Rui Lacas.
Rui Lacas has always been a comics artist. At 19 years old he was seeing his first work published and since 1989 he’s been relentless.
As a lot of artists usually do, he started being published in Portuguese anthologies like Banda, Shock Fanzine, BD’n’Roll, Mesinha de Cabeceira and others. He also worked for the comics magazines Selecções BD and Rua Sésamo.
With 20 years old of age, he was given the task of drawing and adapting Jorge Magalhães’ play Maldita Cocaína, a musical created by Filipe La Féria. After this enormous task, he worked with Pedro Baptista-Bastos drawing A Cauda do Tigre with great acclaim from the national comics scene.
After 4 years of interregnum, Rui Lacas starts a new phase of his career, this time flying solo. A Filha do Caranguejo is his first graphic novel starting his now usual style of writing introspective stories in different historical periods but almost always with rural Portugal as background.
Following Que é feito do meu Natal?, he participated in some anthologies like Venham+5, Efeméride, Vencer os Medos or Uma Revolução Desenhada: o 25 de Abril e a BD before releasing a series of different graphic novels.
In 2006 he makes his first big breakthrough into the French market releasing Merci Patron through Les Editions Paquet with great international acclaim before being published in Portugal, a couple of years later, as Obrigado, Patrão also with huge praise.
After releasing Asteroid Fighters, his most extrovert work where he mixes northern American and Japanese influences creating a superheroe team based on his friends from The Lisbon Studio, he spends a few years working on several projects and only releasing an account of the career of Portuguese band Sétima Legião.
In 2012, Rui releases 3 books he has been working for the past 3 years: Han Solo, the story of a Dutch bipolar tourist who falls in love with Lisbon and stays, A Ermida, a simple story about a mysterious robbery of the Crown’s jewels, and a new volume of Asteroid Fighters.
He’s currently working on finishing stories he left incomplete during his career and gathering unpublished ones to release a series of books collecting almost all of his work since the 90′s.
You can follow Rui through his Facebook page and Blog and if you’re interested in acquiring some of his work, visit his page at ComicHeart.
In Portugal:
Han Solo (Edições Polvo, 2012)
A Ermida (Edições Polvo, 2012)
Asteroid Fighters - Os Oráculos (Edições Asa, 2012)
Sétima Legião (Tugaland, 2011)
Asteroid Fighters - O Início (Edições Asa, 2009)
Vencer os Medos (Assírio e Alvim, 2008)
Obrigada, Patrão (Edições Asa, 2008)
Que é feito do meu Natal? (Edições Polvo, 2002)
A Filha do Caranguejo (Edições Polvo, 2001)
A Cauda do Tigre (Contemporânea, 1998)
Maldita Cocaína (Página a Página, 1994)
In France:
Merci Patron (Les Editions Paquet, 2006)
Take a peek behind Jorge Coelho’s drawing and inking process:
Jorge starts by printing layouts in light blue and borders in black. He then draws some perspective lines with a mechanical pen with blue colored lead and the flames and other details in a different color for easier visualization.
To finish, brush shadows with some white splatters and erased pencils.
Voilá!
Last weeks have been filled with some annoying and disappointing issues, work and not work related, so today I found myself in a bit of a drawing funk. Furiosa is helping me deal with it, because Charlize Theron makes everything better anyway. This may be painted in the future and may be up for grabs at #Comicheart. News on that next month. #drawing #deskshot #process #pencils #art #fanart #madmaxfuryroad #furiosa #charlizetheron
You’ll just have to wait to grab some mad illustrations that Ricardo is preparing. By the way, you have excellent taste on movies Ricardo;)
ComicHeart is going to this year’s edition of Festival Internacional de Banda Desenhada de Beja / Beja’s Comics Festival and you should also go.
Why, you ask?
#1 - We’ll have original art from all of our artists for sale there and some of our artists are going to be present! We don’t have confirmation on Miguel Mendonça yet and Ricardo Venâncio is not going unfortunately but we can confirm that Jorge Coelho will be there with us signing anything you bring. UPDATE: Miguel Mendonça is joining us on Saturday and Sunday morning.
#2 - Save on shipping fees! Take advantage of our 10% discount on all of his work (use the code ‘COELHO10′ until this Sunday when checking out) and pick up your order at the festival saving on shipping fees.
#3 - We’ll have news! Schedule your Sunday! On 31 of May, 5PM at Bedeteca de Beja (1º floor of Casa da Cultura de beja), we’re doing a public presentation of our project where we’ll announce new artists and some other things. Stay tunned;)
#4 - Celebrate with us the most laidback comics festival there is! Join us at the Alentejo plains to celebrate the comics artform in a calm city right in the middle of the Alentejo plains. Artists from all over the world are going to be there to make presentations and talks; new books will be announced; there’s a major comics paraphernalia for sale at the event; and the best part is that the festival is so laidback that you can hang out with the artists at any time to ask for a sketch or go have a drink with them.
Visit the official page of the festival and join us in Beja!
Saturday was Jorge Coelho's birthday! And to celebrate it, we’re doing a special 10% off discount on all of his works. Just use ‘COELHO10′ when you arrive at the checkout page.
Hurry up, this discount is available only until Sunday!
Signed Café Racer HCs available!
In 2014 Jorge Coelho was selected for the Sean Murphy Apprenticeship given by Sean Gordon Murphy in Portland, Maine. Sean murphy created this program after being offered several professorship positions over the years, which he couldn’t take due to work, and because every year students offered themselves to unpaid internships with him.
The apprenticeship consisted in selecting five students for two weeks, have them stay at Sean’s house and during the day he'd teach them all he knew about comics. The first week was mainly theoretical with storytelling, perspective, ellipses, script reading, character development and layout with the help of Klaus Janson, inker of Frank Miller’s legendary Daredevil run and The Dark Knight Returns. The second week was spent working on comics. To that end, Sean and his students put together a book called Café Racer. Each student had to do a 5-page piece of the story Sean and his wife, Katana Collins, wrote.
As a toddler, Orchid and her father barely escaped Japan during the Doolittle Raid of WWII. Years later, Orchid is still an outcast as she speeds her way into London's Cafe Racer motorcycle society. Defying both racial and sexist stereotypes, the half-Japanese teenager is unbeatable in a race--much to the disappointment of her father, who forbids her from riding his mysterious motorcycle. After discovering friendship in the most unexpected places, she soon uncovers the truth of the bike, along with its connection to the disappearance of her mother in pre-war Japan.
Café Racer, the book that came out of this apprenticeship, is a hardcover with 107 pages in black and white. It has a Gold Foil Embossed Cover measuring 7" x 11" / 17.8cm x 27.9cm and includes extra features such as pencils, concept art, and other behind the scenes artwork from the artists that contributed to it: Sean Gordon Murphy, Tana Ford, Stephen Green, Corin Howell, Joe Dellagatta, Clay McCormack, Fiona Staples, Dan Panosian, Andrew Robinson and Tommy Lee Edwards.
At ComicHeart, we have several signed copies that Jorge made available: -5 books signed by Sean Murphy and Jorge and -30 books signed by Jorge.
Who’s who? Ricardo Venâncio
We come to our final artist (for now), Ricardo Venâncio, after our posts about Miguel Mendonça and Jorge Coelho.
Growing up in the 80s with morning TV cartoons, brasilian translations of super heroes comics and Prince Valiant, Ricardo Venâncio drew since he remembers. At high school at Escola António Arroio, he meets Jorge Coelho and many other future colleagues and friends, and takes a General Arts Course. Later he takes an Illustration Course and works at NeuroPlanet where he did storyboards for animations.
In 2004 he starts to work several national magazines, publishers and newspapers doing illustrations and soon later joins Bica studio along João Lemos, Nuno Plati and Ricardo Tércio, artists that have worked and still work for Marvel.
In 2006 the band Blasted Mechanism invites him to create all the visual aspects for their new album: suits, album cover and production design of one of their promotional videos.
2007 he joins The Lisbon Studio where he starts dabbling into comics with Defier, a creator-owned graphic novel. His first international breakout was La Centurie des Convertis, a french album for Fauvard Editions published in 2011 soon followed by participations in anthologies like Zona Desenha, KaBOOMbox - from Brand New Nostalgia -, Apocalypse Tarot and Racconti Indiani - from italian publisher Passenger Press - and Crumbs - from Kingpin Books.
In 2013, along with his colleague Jorge Coelho and many other international talents, Ricardo participated with illustrations for Zatoichi, the Blind Swordsman, a compilation of movies released by Criterion Collection.
He's currently working as a storyboarder for publicity, teaches Drawing and Storyboard at Etic, prepares to launch his neverending “work in progress” webcomic Hanuram, the Golden and is currently coloring the mini-series The Ludocrats - written by Kieron Gillen and Jim Rossignol, pencils by David Lafuente, published by Image Comics.
You can follow Ricardo through his Tumblr, Twitter, Facebook page and Blog and you’re interested in acquiring some of his work, visit his page at ComicHeart.
In Portugal:
Defier (El Pep, 2009)
The Lisbon Studio Mag (2010, selfpublished)
Zona Desenha (Zona, 2012)
Crumbs (Kingpin Books, 2014)
Casulo (Kingpin Books, 2015)
In France:
La Centurie des Convertis Pt 2 (Fauvard Editions, 2010)
In Italy:
Apocalypse Tarot (Passenger Press, 2013)
Racconti Indiani (Passenger Press, 2014)
In the USA:
KaBOOMbox (Brand New Nostalgia/Out Of Step Arts, 2013)
Criterion Designs (The Criterion Collection, 2014)
Six (selfpublication by Fabian Rangel Jr., 2014)
Pick of the week!
Jorge Coelho has some surprises for us soon. Meanwhile, we show you a drawing of #Mania, from the #Venom comics series, that Jorge made last year for a fan in a comics convention.
