Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Nação Fora da Lei: Sangue Entre Irmãos

"Outlaw Nation" got published in Brasil by Gal Editora!
Here's what they have to say about it, for all you Portuguese speaking readers ... :)

Suspense, humor negro e crítica social em uma elogiada série em quadrinhos lançada originalmente pelo selo Vertigo, da DC Comics
Décadas após sua suposta morte nas selvas do Vietnã, o escritor Story Johnson reaparece nos Estados Unidos, perdido e sem memória. O pouco de que se lembra o impele a uma jornada através do país para encontrar sua família, um grupo de rebeldes imortais que vive à margem da sociedade. O problema é que muitos dos Johnson vêm desaparecendo misteriosamente, caçados por forças sombrias a serviço de uma terrível conspiração. Em busca de seu passado, Story envolve-se numa trama complicada e terá que enfrentar um terrível psicopata que pretende matá-lo a qualquer custo: seu próprio irmão.
Publicada originalmente pelo selo Vertigo da DC Comics, Nação Fora da Lei é uma história violenta e repleta de humor negro, escrita pelo renomado roteirista inglês Jamie Delano (John Constantine: Hellblazer, Visões de 2020) e desenhada pelos croatas Goran Sudzuka (Y: O Último Homem) e Goran Parlov (Justiceiro, Ken Parker). Parte faroeste moderno, parte suspense sobrenatural e parte sátira social, a série foi aclamada pela crítica e é considerada por muitos como a obra-prima de Delano.
O roteirista virá ao Brasil a convite da Comix Book Shop e da Gal Editora para o lançamento de Nação Fora da Lei: Sangue entre Irmãos durante o evento FestComix, em 19, 20 e 21 de outubro em São Paulo.
Este volume reune as edições 1 a 11 da série Outlaw Nation em um álbum de 256 páginas.
O que já foi dito sobre Nação Fora da Lei: Sangue Entre Irmãos:


Uma história em quadrinhos fantástica. Este é o Sandman, o Preacher, o Transmetropolitan que a indústria esqueceu.
Rich Johnston, Lying in the Gutters

Uma história ambiciosa e provocante.
Karen Berger, editora da linha Vertigo

Nação Fora da Lei não é leitura fácil, mas isso é parte de seu apelo. Uma experiência recompensadora.
Don MacPherson, Eye on Comics

Delano mira contra o coração negro da América com esta série.
Kevin Mathews, Pop Matters

Se está louco por uma história em quadrinhos com reviravoltas e surpresas interessantes, experimente Nação Fora da Lei. A ambiciosa história coloca Preacher no chinelo.
Flooby.com

Segue a linha de um livro clássico da contracultura, no mesmo nível de On the Road - Pé na Estrada, Ardil 22, Os Nus e os Mortos e O Apanhador no Campo de Centeio. É o melhor exemplo da literatura de estrada que você pode encontrar e, mais importante, em uma história em quadrinhos.
Rob Nott, Comics International Magazine

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

NYCC commissions

Here are two commissions ordered on time and now just waiting for their owners to collect them at NYCC. :)

Saturday, September 22, 2012

New York Comic Con

I'll be at NYCC again this year. Just like last time, I’ll be at Splash Page Comic Art booth. There you can buy my original art, get your comic books signed, get a sketch or commissioned artwork.

Here’s the price list:
Small head sketch in books - $10
Pencil drawing on 6x8 inches paper -$40
Commission, inked, on 10x15 inches drawing board -$100  for one character,
$50 for background or additional character
If you contact me (or Mark) earlier, you’ll make sure to get your commission. It’s hard to say how many I’ll be able to draw there and how big the demand will be.

Also, I’ll attend Skybound panel on Friday, 10/12, from 2:45-3:45PM. There you might finally find out what I’ve been doing lately. :)

 

Sunday, September 9, 2012

Sunday, September 2, 2012

Wolverine and the X-Men

Are you reading Wolverine and the X-Men by Jason Aaron? You should! It's incredibly fun!
I'm doing variant cover for German edition. Here's pencil drawing. Inks coming soon!

Thursday, July 19, 2012

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Scotch Corner Reminder

Are you visiting Scotch Corner?
You should. Not only you can get introduced to lots of great artists you might've never heard of, but you can also find out what my dream job would be! ; )


Monday, July 2, 2012

Scotch Corner

 Over at Scotch Corner guys are celebrating their 3rd birthday. They invited a list of artist to contribute with small interview and sample of their art, including yours truly. Check out on 9th of July what I've chosen to present! :)
Here's the list of artists ...
1st: Henry Flint
2nd: Christian Wildgoose
3rd: Paolo Rivera
4th: Diarmid Mogg
5th: Neill Cameron
6th: Neil Ford
7th: Michael J Austin
8th: Jason Little
10th: Rob McCallum
11th: Mike Cavallaro
12th: Andy Bloor
13th: Paul Bourne
14th: Simon Gurr
15th: Rob Johnson
16th Ian NJ Culbard
Great way to celebrate, I'd say! : )
To save this post from not having any pictures here's one oldie - two pages from self parody of Svebor & Plamena. The year is 1997 if I remember correctly.

Monday, June 11, 2012

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

My Five Most Influential Croatian Comic Book Artists

Over at CBR you can read my article on five Croatian artists that had most influence on my work. Also, as an introduction to this list there's a brief history of Croatian (and partly Yugoslavian) comics.

On other, sadder, news - due to some bureaucratic bullshit I won't be able to attend Erlangen and Strasbourg comic festivals. : (

Thursday, May 17, 2012

It's MAFEST-time again!

Ovogodisnji Mafest starta iduceg ponedjeljka, a ja cu biti tamo od srijede. I ostati do kraja, do nedjelje.
Prilika vam je to da nabavite novu 25. svesku "Zabave za celu porodicu". Svatko tko kupi svesku, moze racunati na moj crtez uz nju. Ili u nju. Ili na nju. : )
Pored toga, imam nesto stripova koje bi rado udomio po povoljnoj cijeni. Ako ste zainteresirani, javite mi se na mejl NAJKASNIJE DO NEDJELJE NAVECER. Primopredaja na Mafestu.

  The Freebooters HC (Windsor-Smith) 100 eng  D 1
    Ghostdancing (Delano) 1-6 40 eng samo u kompletu D 6
    Hellblazer 85-6,96,108,168-9, 202-6, 250  eng 5 po kom D 19 109 L
    Hellblazer: Original Sins 60 eng  D 1
    Losing Neverland vol.1 30 eng  D 1
    The Lost Colony book 1 40 eng potpisao autor D 1
    Missionary Man (Quitely) 50 eng  D 1
    Neil Young's Greendale ( Cliff Chiang) HC 50 eng  D 1
    SPX 2003 tpb 30 eng  D 1
    Streets of Dublin 30 eng  D 1
    Submariner: The Depths (Ribic) 70 eng  D 1
    The Territory HC (Delano/Lloyd) 50 eng  D 1
    Tug & Buster 1-6 50 eng samo u kompletu D 6

Friday, April 20, 2012

More shamless self-promotion

Over at Splash Page Comic Art there's a short interview with me. You might wanna read it and find out a thing or two about me that you didn't know. : )
And here's a self-portrait I did for some other purpose ...

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Berliner Comicbörse

On Sunday, 22nd of April, I'll be at Berliner Comicbörse signing, sketching, selling original art and my new graphic novel A.D.D. If you're in the neighborhood stop by and say "Hi!"

Thursday, April 12, 2012

Sunday, March 25, 2012

Leda

Couple of sketches I did as a warming up before inking.
No pencils, just brush and ink.

Thursday, March 8, 2012

Family portrait

Here's a nice family portrait for your amusement. :)This weekend I'll be signing, sketching and selling original art at Hamburger Comic- & Manga Börse.
If you're in the neighborhood drop by and say hi! :)

Saturday, February 25, 2012

Thursday, February 16, 2012

Hulk

Another commission that was fun to draw ... : )

Thursday, February 9, 2012

Monday, February 6, 2012

Lazing on a sunny afternoon

Not really ... : )

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Batman for sale!

Remember this?

It's finally auctioned! Here, at The Hero Initiative you can find details.
And the gallery with 104 original covers done for the same purpose.

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

A.D.D. - Day

After years in the making - it's finally out!
A.D.D. - graphic novel published by DC Comics/Vertigo. Douglas Rushkoff wrote it, I did pencils and part of the inks, with Jose Marzan Jr. inking the rest.Here's what Douglas has to say about A.D.D. ...

"Everyone seems to have A.D.D. these days. (In case you’ve been too distracted by your Twitter feed to remember, A.D.D. stands for Attention Deficit Disorder -- the inability to focus on any one thing for too long, the urge to do nine things at once, and the hyper, constantly shifting, unsettled feeling that goes along with it.)

Apparently, it’s an epidemic -- particularly among boys, and especially among those who love video games. And so video games are now blamed for destroying their brains, and their capacity to become productive members of society.

But, to me anyway, something never felt right about this line of reasoning. Even if playing video games and answering txt messages shortens the attention span, what if it broadens the attention range? What if the downsides of an A.D.D. approach to life were actually offset by some other, still unidentified advantage? Or in computer programmer’s parlance, what if A.D.D. weren’t a bug, but a feature?

In fact, this whole Attention Deficit craze really only began in the late '90s, a few years after the Internet business magazines unanimously declared we were living in something called an “attention economy.” The idea was that the Internet is essentially limitless in its ability to hold content. The only limiting factor on how much money media companies can make off us in an age of infinite bandwidth is human attention itself.

They came up with a new metric, “eyeball hours,” to describe the amount of time they could keep someone’s attention glued to the screen. Media companies arose to make websites more “sticky” so that people -- especially kids -- would end up spending more of their eyeball hours stuck on their web pages.

Over the next decade, prescriptions for Ritalin -- the leading A.D.D. drug, otherwise known as “speed” -- went up by about 5000%. Were real cases of the formerly rare sensory disorder multiplying at this rate? Were they simply being diagnosed more easily? Or was something other than A.D.D. now getting labeled this way?

That’s when I started to believe that at least this new breed of Attention Deficit Disorder may not be a sickness but a defense mechanism: an adaptation to a world where someone -- usually some corporation -- is trying to program us everywhere we look. Fast channel surfing and short attention spans are not deficits but strengths -- weapons, really -- in the battle for human consciousness.

When I think about kids being diagnosed by public school guidance counselors and then drugged to pay better attention, I can’t help but suspect we are no longer treating a child but repressing the messenger.

So I decided I wanted to tell a story in which A.D.D. was quite literally a bug that was being turned into a feature. Following the what-if structure of science fiction, all I needed to do was ask who would do such a thing to kids, and why? And what would happen if it worked? What would American, videogame-playing “new type” mutations look like, and how would they relate to the world in which we are living?

The story in A.D.D. may be fiction, but the war on our minds and against our resistance is as real as the mediaspace in which we live. They mean to occupy our reality before we occupy theirs."

And here are some pages from the book ...





Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

ZZCP

Cover for the best horror series ever! : )

You can find out more about it here and here.
Oh, and btw. some more art is added on my facebook page.