The Art of JJ Marreiro - 01

JJ Marreiro began a work with drawings, comics and illustrations in 1991 teaching drawing class for children and drawing illustrations and comics for educational material. He published newspaper strips, magazine illustrations, and made book covers. He produced artwork for DC Comics, AK Comics, Moonstone and others. He created the characters Beto Foguete (aka Bob Rocket), Stunning Woman, Zohrn among others.
Contacts for orders and jobs: 
E-Mail: jjmarreiro@gmail.com
JJ Marreiro (on Facebook)
JJ Marreiro Deviantart
JJ Marreiro Tumblr
Instagram: @jjmarreiro or click here

 

MORE:
The Vintage art of JJ Marreiro on Jeca Tatu's Blog ( link )
JJ Marreiro Artes do Capitão Gralha ( link )
JJ Marreiro Artes da Mulher-Estupenda  ( link )
Soon:    Galery 02     Galery 03     Galery 04    Galery 05

You can also see:
The Art of Dennis Oliveira
The Art of Fernando Lima

The Mark of the Black Panther !

Ten years after the start of his film career, Marvel releases Black Panther and shows it has breath for much more. Black Panther is emblematic in several aspects, especially since it is a very well done film.

Director Ryan Coogler (Fruitvale Station) shows undisguised dedication and goes through the heart of the racial issue in the US, making clear his vision of minorities and prejudice, but with room for reflection.

With a cast consisting of black actors (with few exceptions) playing well-developed characters, the greatest virtue of the film lies in its direct, assertive and well-made narrative. The motto is fantastic: "we must build bridges, not barriers."

Black Panther is an important film within the genre, as well as the very creation of the characters on the pages of the Fantastic Four in the mid-1960s - a new affirmation of a social movement! The plot features well-structured arches within a very comprehensive theme: Our responsibilities and duties - to the family, to the motherland, to love, to culture ... The sense of duty touches all the characters and is exactly that that we feel the fullest identification - or at least it should be like that (do you remember Professor Xavier saying that nobody needs to be black to be against apartheid?).

Black Panther is not a black-to-black movie, but a universal movie for all, with a black cast and strong women in the lead roles (DC's Amazon in the movies pale again). And here Marvel hits in the near total absence of the typical latent humor of his films, because "seriousness" builds the nobility of the character and its cause.

With neat performances, an excellent script, action, modern soundtrack - "organic" and localized - competent effects and great characters, the result could not be bad. Do you guess who wins with that? Another highlight: Killmonger is one of the best Marvel villains within his usual formula (in which the hero must defeat himself initially). With a convincing psychological construction and brilliant acting by Michael B. Jordan (Creed).

Impossible to finish watching the movie, check out your two post-credit scenes and not get thirsty for more - and that means Avengers Infinite War already in April (2018)! 

 

Demi-God — My Kick-Ass Graphic Novel

The comicbook artist Bart Sears has a new project just launched on Kickstarter. Demi-God: My Kick-Ass Graphic Novel is from Ominous Press and is part of the Ominous Universe. Bart Sears created the character and concept, and then turned it over to an amazing team: writer Ron Marz, artist Andy Smith, and color artist Michael Atiyeh.  

Demi-God is the story of Jason McAndros, a typical slacker who finds himself awarded the power of the legendary Hercules. This humorous and action-packed story is available in an oversized, 64-page hardcover volume with plenty of extra content.

The comics have been drinking at the source of the ancient mythologies numerous times and the result has always been engaging and exciting. Demi-God promises to bring all of this to a colossal load of entertainment. Visit the official link, see details on this amazing project and feel free to support because the great winner of this project is undoubtedly the reader!






DEMI-GOD — My kick-ass Graphic Novel
Bart Sears wikipedia
Bart Sears Biography

Ron Marz wikipedia
Ron Marz Comicbookdb 
Ron Marz Amazon 
Andy Smith Comicbookdb
The Art of Andy Smith
Michael Atiyeh on Comicbookdb
Michael Atiyeh on Imagecomics
 

The Art of Dennis Oliveira - 01

Dennis Rodrigo Oliveira is an brazilian artist, illustrator, comicbook creator, writer and publisher with degree in advertising. To get some Prints, Original Arts, Sketch Cards, Commissions and others contact the artist by these means:
Dennis Oliveira (on Facebook)
Instagram: @dennis.rodrigooliveira
E-mail:  dennygalahan@gmail.com

Soon:
Galery 02
Galery 03
Galery 04
See also
The Art of JJ Marreiro
The Art of Fernando Lima

 

The Jacked Kirby PODCAST: A Fan Podcast for all Fans!

Tommy Lombardozzi and Michael D categorically affirm that they are not experts in the life and work of Jack Kirby, but fans in love with the legacy of the King of Comic Books. This is one of the positives of the North American podcast Jacked Kirby (featured on CCD.com) focused on subjects related to Jack Kirby, a man that is perhaps the greatest myth-maker of sequential art.

It all started with Instagram @jacked_kirby where the duo put various images related to Jack Kirby always with some additional information or curious things. By bringing this information to the podcast, instagram continues to be a basis for dissemination and good information (and curiosity). Fleeing a little from the rule of blind fans, the duo does not shy away from criticizing one or another aspect, stage, or some work within the scope of the King's work, always remembering that as genial as it may have been, Kirby was also human, and thus liable to human misunderstanding.

The program is up, positive, joyful, before anything. Didactic, humorous and even with small misconceptions of memory from time to time — after all nobody is a robot— it is a fabulous source of reference. Presenters and guests pay homage to the King of Comics and it is curious how some elements of Kirby's work remain alive and influential even today beyond the barriers of time, geography, language and cultures.

Links:
The Jacked Kirby Podcast (CCD.com)

The Jacked Kirby (Itunes)
The Jacked Kirby Podcast

Jacked Kirby Instagram
Jacked Kirby Facebook

Tommy Lombardozzi Soundcloud

Tommy Lombardozzi & Paul Weiss: I can't Ever Get Over You
Tommy Lombardozzi on REVERBNATION
Tommy Lombardozzi - Drivel

"Who's Making Love" - Tommy Lombardozzi (Johnnie Taylor cover)
"Out Of Touch" Tommy Lombardozzi (Hall & Oates cover)

Tales of Asgard
Tales od Asgard - Bronze Age Babies
Tales of Asgard: Journey into Mistery 98
Tales of Asgard: Journey into Mistery 115-116

Original post in portuguese

 

Surfing among the stars

THE SURF
 
The origin of Surf (from the word surface) is linked to the ancient Polynesian peoples (in the South Pacific) and to the Peruvians (in the Americas). The practice has historically been linked to mystical activities, sea worship and rituals of spiritual order, becoming an important element for social life while promoting the connection of man with nature and proposed challenges of self-improvement. All this long before it became a world-famous sport.

Surfing requires more than balance on the board, it requires the perception of the rhythm of the sea, the speed of the wind and the waves, it requires sensitive knowledge about the environment and its self, its own rhythm, its own physical capacities, the recognition of its own limits and the audacity to test these limits and the audacity to test these limits.


THE SILVER

Chemical element of symbol Ag, which comes from Argentum, Latin word derived from a Sanskrit term meaning white and bright. Silver is linked to the symbolic chain of the moon and water (which is therefore quitessentially linked to surfing). Unlike the male vigor of gold, silver has a connection with what is feminine, subtle, and with the dignity of royalty and divine cleansing. Contradictory to silver, which represents wealth provokes human greed which gives it a dynamic within its own meaning. 

 A SILVER SURFER

In proposing a herald to Galactus, the World Eater, Jack Kirby came up with the idea of a half-naked space explorer who navigated the waves of cosmic energies, solar winds, gases, magnetic fields, plasmas and space radiations on a rounded-edge plate. While his nakedness shows fragility, the silvery color of his whole body brings with it a purity that reflects his soul that is not seen a priori because of the alien aspect that it gives him.

The anguish that the Silver Surfer brings with him, isolated from his homeland, removed from the conviviality of his beloved, forced to find whole worlds that will be destroyed to satisfy the hunger of his Master, reflects well the dichotomy of the silver itself, which in some formats it becomes toxic (like silver powder) and under others (silver nitrate) have therapeutic uses. 

While Jack Kirby's trait features a sturdy and audacious Surfer, John Buscema portrays him delicately, almost feminine. Notably at this stage we see the contradiction between the striking levels of power of the hero - able to stand up to the most powerful gods of Asgard - and his deep anguish and torment.

The genre of superheroes has been associated with two-dimensional characters, without depth and without drama, this is a common reading and a valid perception in a first analysis of its general aspects, however, from Will Eisner's Spirit to Lee & Ditko's Spider-man and culminating with Allan Moore's Watchmen Superheroes (or customized heroes) have shown that their depth depends not on their constitutive character, but on the approach of their authors. The Silver Surfer brings to the genre a thematic richness and dichotomy that well represented the hectic years of the 1960s with their struggles for civil rights, their wars, popular movements, and regimes of exception. The range of plots and conflicts that open before the Silver Surfer are in some ways an ocean (or a universe) of possibilities for character, authors and readers.


 
 MORE:
-Silver Surfer at MARVEL.COM 
-Surfando entre as Estrelas (original article in portuguese)

 

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