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

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. :)

 

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! ; )

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

9th: Goran Sudžuka

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.

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 ...

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!"

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 ...

If you can't beat them, join them

So, I've opened up a Facebook page.But the sole purpose of it is to replace my old web page. There you'll be able to find lots of my old and recent works and you can like or comment them. No writings on the wall and stuff.
There's still some stuff I want to put there, but even now, there's plenty to see.
Click here and enjoy! :)

Književnost na platnu: G. Sudžuka i I. G. Vitez

Troje titana na jednom mjestu. Pa tko preživi, pričat će...

Još se od prethistorijskih vremena čovjek (neke tvrde i žena) trsio da umijećem risanja uhvati pokret, ekranizira vlastitu svakodnevicu, vandalizirajući zidove pećina mrčotinama prikaza bikova, jednoroga i sličnog jestivog življa.

Povjesničari umjetnosti te su primitivne drljotine nazvali protostripom.

Posramljena ovim pokušajima, nekoliko stoljeća poslije ljudska je vrsta izumila film.

Ovo izdanje Književnosti na platnu ugostit će dva giganta iz obaju sfera - legendarnog stripaša Gorana Sudžuku te Viteza hrvatske kinematografije i televizora, Ivana Gorana - koji će nam podastrijeti svoja promišljanja incestuoznog odnosa dvaju tematiziranih vizualnih medija, te nadugo i naširoko raspravljati o filmskim adaptacijama stripova.

U dosađivanju auditoriju pokušat će ih spriječiti milozvučna moderatorica Mima Simić.

Booksa, 25.10., 19:00

New York, New York again ...

I'll be at New York Comic Con this year again, but this time instead of running around I'll be spending my time at the booth of Splash Page Art, selling my original art and drawing commissions.
If you're around, stop by and say hi! : )
Speaking of commissions, here are two fresh ones ...


And, by the way, finally - amazing original art from Edvin Biukovic's Grendel Tales will be available to buy at Splash Page Art booth! You better hurry. There's not much of them left and I know for sure there are lots of people that's been waiting for this for a long time.

Izložena Martina

23.9. u 19 sati u Galeriji Događanja u Kulturnom Centru Peščenica biti će otvorenje izložbe originalnih tabli Martine Mjesec. Više o tome možete pročitati ovdje. Dođite, razveselite me! : )

The Big One!

My apologies folks, for this long pause.
Instead of explaining myself let's try and recap what I've been doing these last few months.
First of all, I've been doing some commissions for German fans. You can see them at my portfolio blog.
I delivered those during my German signing tour. I have to say big thanks to Alex Bubenheimer for inviting us and organizing the whole thing and all the nice people from comic shops where signings took place. Also big shoutouts to Davide Gianfelice and Kari Korhonen who were great company throughout the tour and, of course, to all the fans that came to see us.

After five days in five different cities, we spent great weekend in Contern, Luxemburg as guests at small but charming festival. So big thanks to our hosts there, too. Here's Kari's lovely drawing of our little adventure.

But, the thing that kept me really occupied was my first Marvel gig.
I got invited to draw two issues of Wolverine, written by one of the best contemporary writers - Jason Aaron. Despite the tight deadlines it was a real pleasure working on it. Especially because they were colored by amazing Matthew Wilson. Both issues are out during September. Previews are here and here. For you, dedicated followers, here's some b/w pages.



And, at last, the book I've been working on for a long time is finally announced!
A.D.D. is the name of the graphic novel written by Douglas Rushkoff. Douglas is a smart guy, so go and visit his website. I did all of the pencils and Jose Marzan Jr. helped me out on inks through bigger part of the book. Some of you longtime visitors will probably recognize the characters from my previous posts. Cover illustration was conceived and designed by Mrva. I just did the drawing.

That's it, for now. More news and new work coming soon, so drop by - I promise regular updates from now on! : )

Stripovi u Globusu

Od slijedećeg broja Globus će objavljivati kratke stripove domaćih autora. Više o tome pročitajte ovdje. Neka vam od sada bude navika srijedom otići do kioska! : )

Strange Adventures

I did a short story for Vertigo's anthology "Strange Adventures" out in May 25th. It's written by Paul Cornell and colored by Cris Peter. In previous posts you can see work in progress on one page from it. For the rest you'll have to get a book. : )

Cover is done by Mark Buckingham.

Shamless self promotion

I've set up a new blog to accompany this one. The new one is on-line portfolio and it won't be updated frequently like this one, but it gives clear view of my more important work so far.
Also, over at Splash Page Art you can find some newly added original art for sale. Now you can buy my pages from Hellblazer fill-in issues and from my Secret History album.


And here you can read my recent interview. If you speak Croatian, that is. : )

New York Report, part 1

OK, here we go ...
We (Esad, Zeljka, Talaja, Vlatka and me) rented an apartment in Hell's Kitchen for a week. Esad found a perfect location; 5 minutes of walk to the convention center and 15 to our publisher's offices. Cosy place, cheaper then any hotel on same location.
That window on the second floor, on the left - that was my room.
Manhattan is amazing! None of the pics can really describe how tall these buildings are.


But honestly I can't imagine people actually living and working in there. Of course it's not all just skyscrapers. One of my favourite is Dakota building where "Rosemary's baby" is taking place and where John Lennon lived and was shot in front of.
Dakota is right next to Central Park. Big and beautiful!
You could almost forget you're in the middle of one of the biggest cities in the world ...
Yeah, almost ...
Around the town there are smaller parks, like Bryant Park here. Perfect places for a coffee and cigarette breaks.


I was surprised to hear from the local people same rant that's going on probably in every bigger (or smaller) city in the world - how it all changed and it's not like it's used to be. That Times Square looks like Las Vegas now, for instance. To me, it always seemed that way.
What I find ironic, if not cynical, is that at the tourist epicenter of Big Apple there's a recruiting center. I wondered can a tourist come in and get drafted?
Not that I'd want to do it myself, of course. >: )
We met Spiderman there. At first we got along just fine, but then ...
... he found out I'm working for DC Comics! : P
So, Talaja had to jump in and explain there's a new boss in town!
Speaking of DC Comics, their building on Broadway is far from being one of the largest, but being all black, it stands out as rather unique.

At the corner of it, there's a coffee bar/restaurant with chairs and tables outside where you can smoke. So I had my meetings down there, instead up in the offices.
Corridors and offices are decorated in a way that you have no doubt comics are being produced here. This is Metropolis. On the lower floors there's Gotham, too.

That statue is rather lame. I liked the old one better.
This is not some teenager's room. It's a typical room of a DC employee. : )
New York is famous for its restaurants, too. There's probably not a nation in the world that wouldn't have its cuisine here. We visited quite a few. Man's gotta eat, right? This is a Japanese one, with bizarre shop above it.
From left, clockwise: Davide Gianfelice and Danielle, Esad Ribic and Zeljka, Vlatka and Dalibor Talajic.
Evening after that at Chinese restaurant a historic moment - "Scalped" crew meeting in person all together for the first time. So much love there; Will Dennis, R.M. Guera, Jason Aaron and Giulia Brusco!
And, since I'm at name-dropping ... : ) A Spanish dinner with Vertigo people. From left, clockwise: Jason Aaron, Rafael Albuquerque and his wife, Mark Doyle, Will Dennis, Cliff Chiang, Brian Azzarello, me and R.M. Guerra.
And that would be all for now. Next part will be all about the con.