Got bougth for CLiNT--wow!

Mark Millar is among the most successful comic writers of the last decade. He's doing so well that he's even launched his own comic magazine in the UK --CLiNT. And he's been looking for 'new talents' in his website. Yes, I'm not new, not even a talent, but I gave it a try. And you know what? He's buying me! (Yep, it doesn't sound much honorable but... who cares?). Don't know yet what he wants from my stuff, or if anything would end up published in the end. But I'm surely happy with this pick, you know. 

Another neck (comic)

When Antonio HG came to me with the idea of a metaphorical vampire story, I must admit I accepted somewhat reluctantly. My love for vampires is almost inexistent. But nevertheless we took our time to discuss possible variations until we finally hit upon the interesting scheme of this comic. Let me just clarify one thing. Don’t blame me for the vampire’s face (it was, really, an imposition on the part of the artist -who had to pay back kindness with ‘The last wait,’ by the way). Anyway, any resemblance with reality is nothing but a coincidence:

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The last wait (comic)

With Antonio HG we underwent now two pages with the end of the world as a topic. This is the first one, already published in Revista Exégesis. Needless to draw your attention on Antonio's astounding first panel. It speaks on its own. So I hope you can enjoy the rest as well:

 

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Those who summon and lodge (comics)

Third short comic reflecting about utopias and their apparent impossibility. Once again, together with my friend, artist Antonio HG:

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Beowulf (cartoons)

I've got the embarrassing habit of sending cartoons together with my instructions to assignments for the TTC. This is why I've been looking for nice cartoons on Beowulf for the last three years. No wonder I haven't found much. Problem is I also have the embarrassing habit of writing comics and cartoons. Greater problems is that all this moved me to make the no less embarrassing decision of writing my own cartoons on Beowulf. No doubt this sure is a problem, right? Well, I admit I haven't achieved much really, but in any case, I had fun in doing this. My apologies in advance to all of you.  

Utopia 1 & 2 (comics)

Is there anything like a perfect world? Well, that´s exactly what we tried to figure up with Antonio HG. The answer, perhaps, is that any utopia is but a point of view. Here, two of them to enjoy:

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Romulo 3.0 (comic)

I’ve already mentioned Pedro Lobato’s compulsion to drawing comics. We started sharing projects four months ago and we already have four short comics finished and one rather long thing under way. This here was our first collaboration, which has just been published in Revista Exégesis. I'm leaving links to it. Enjoy it!

• Click here to read it online.
• Dowload the comic as a CBR (here) or PDF (here).
• You can download the comics viewer CDisplay to read the CBR files (click here).

Where do balloons go? (comic)

I had originally written the script to this brief comic for an Ukranian artist who left the project before she had any chance to put pencil to paper. The story slept a sound year-long sleep until I met Spanish artist Franki. No doubt he was just what this little story required. I admit I failed in convincing him to use his matchless watercolours, but his mastery of Illustrator was a fair deal instead. The original texts were in English and I still like the English version much more than the Spanish translation. Though both versions must be good enough, I think. So, any one you choose to read, I hope you enjoy it. I’m leaving links to both of them.

[Postcript - June 1, 2010: Yesterday I came across something on the web that really put me off --a French animation whose tone and idea are exactly the same of this comic. And the worst thing is that these authors got ahead of me by almost one year. I don't know what to say. I was quite proud of this story but now this fact blurs my love for it. The only thing I'd like to make clear is that I hadn't known or heard about this animation before writing my script, and that all this is nothing but a sad coincidence. You can see the French video here.]

[Postscript - June 2, 2010: Let me copy a fragment from Franki's response after watching the video, something that cheered me up a bit: "The coincidence is shocking. But it's just a coincidence. Our story is reasonably different, although I admit the balloon's route is quite similar... OK, tooo similar... But it's not the same. That was my impression while seeing the different scenes of the animation (...) We must take it as a coincidence to have made a comic so close to the animation. We're two auteurs. Upright ones. We create stories, we don't plagiarise. We know that, and that's the only thing that matters."]

• Click here to read the English version online .
• Click here to read the Spanish version online.
• Dowload the comic in English as a CBR (here) or PDF (here).
• Download the comic in Spanish as a CBR (here) or PDF (here).
• You can download the comics viewer CDisplay to read the CBR files (click here).

Intrepid Fantasy (comic)

Since we first met with  Pedro Lobato, we haven't stopped engaging in new shared projects. Pedro displays an intriguing compulsion for drawings and comics which I believe is worth exploiting. This is our third project together, although it's the first to be published, again as part of the series of reflective comics proposed by Exégesis to commemorate their anniversary. There will be others coming soon, so be ready.

Science fiction (comic)

If anything like friendship is possible in the virtual world of the Internet, then I believe I can consider myself a friend to Antonio HG, Spanish artist with whom I have been sharing projects nonstop for a year now. It was precisely during one of our first virtual meetings that we realized we were not only separated by distance but also by time. I promised to write a short reflection on the issue, which has now been published in Revista Exégesis, as part of a series of comics reflecting upon science fiction as a genre. I hope you like it.

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