Friday, March 05, 2010

Release of Zona Fantástica

As you know - because I've posted about it earlier - yesterday was the release of the comics/illustration project Zona Fantástica, as part of Fantasporto - Oporto's International Movie Festival. It went very well and it was fantastic to hang out with all the artists and the people that went to the release! I drew a lot of zombies in a lot of books, predictably. I have to find something more fun to draw than zombies, quickly. Since I had my friend Mário take some photos, I'll take this chance to post a few of them.

This was the selling stand. You can see the book that was released, Zona Fantástica - as well as official t-shirts - and also the previous volumes, Zona Zero and Zona Negra.

This is me on the table. Next to me are Joana Afonso and André Oliveira, and we can see the back of Diogo Campos :)

Another shot of some artists at the table, this time with our "srs business" face. Left to right, you've got me, Joana, André, the Fantasporto presenter that made the opening speech, and Fil (who unfortunatelly got half-cut from the pic).

The lighting was not the best for photos, but here André and Fil were talking about the Hammer Killer, which was my comic. Look, there's my name on the wall!

This was at the end, when we were autographing and drawing on books. Clockwork from me are Hugo Teixeira, Diogo Campos, Fil, Pedro Nascimento and Raz.

And this photo was snapped by Joana, it's my very own Cosmic-Rocket-Man and André!

All in all, it was a great end of a day. Not only were we all happy with the book, it sold well, we drew a lot, and people also seemed to enjoy it. Another plus was hanging out with each other, since we all live pretty much scattered all over the country and don't get many chances to hang out.

I hope you enjoy the photos, and in some time I'll post the Hammer Killer I drew for this.
Keep rocking!

PS - Quem não pôde aparecer ontem, pode aparecer amanhã, dia 6, na Central Comics, depois das 17h, pois vamos ter uma festa de lançamento da Zona com alguns dos autores presentes (entre os quais eu) para sessão de autógrafos. E se quiserem apareçam ainda mais cedo e apanham o Filipe Melo e a festa do Dog Mendonça e Pizzaboy!

5 comments:

Barbara Lourenço said...

Tive tanta penas de não ir...mas realmente não consegui devido a trabalho....Ainda se fosse no fim de semana..x_x
Gostava de ver mais fotografias porque essas deixam água na boca =D~

Parabéns a TODOS por este projecto que ficou "SUPIMPA" ehehe
Hugs

Ska said...

Vocês vão fazer exportação ou vou ter de ir comprar a Portugal? Estou muito curioso para ler ;)

Nuno Amado said...

Raios e mariscos!
Não consegui ir ao lançamento, nem sequer à Central Comics no sábado...
:(

Homemdagaragem said...

Cool!!!!!

Unknown said...

Chris - Thank you! :)

Bárbara - É pena não teres podido vir, foi realmente muito catita! Sei que o Fil tentou muito que fosse no fim de semana, mas não deu. Para próxima ;) Quanto a fotos, estão bastantes espalhadas por nós todos no Facebook, é só ires espreitando!

xor Ska, se quiseres é só dizeres e faço-te chegar um volume :D Com rabisco à escolha incluído. You name it!

Bongop - O facto de ser à semana tramou muita gente... Pena não teres podido ir! Aproveito para te dar os parabéns, já que gostei muito da tua BD e do Pedro. Excelente trabalhos dos dois! :)

Homemdagaragem - ora muito obrigada! :D