Almost 2 years ago I was commissioned to do an artwork for a magazine (who which I do not remember), but the project had many problems and never concluded. Although no longer to my liking and is only the beginning, I found that something of that effort should see the light. And I’m retaking the idea of the Medusas (jellyfish) for an upcoming personal project.
In New York I went to Mocca 2009, to the presentation of Mekano Turbo, the new comics of Alexis Ziritt and Calavera Comics, was the first time I went to a Mocca and was great, I met great artists and got out with 2 bags full of comics.
Among all the people that I knew that highlights Frank Gonzalez, a very cool guy and a excellent painter, and Bagger43, a great designer and Illustrator, both were on the table of Calavera Comics, thanks for all the care that they had, and thanks to Bagger43 for gift me his two new books of sketches and the Kamen Rider Poster.
Mekano Turbo is the new comic of Alexis Ziritt (Zircons) and Calavera Comics, an excellent compilation of stories of great artists from different corners of the world, Gustavo Rugeles, Bruno Orbit, Josh Argerstrand, Gimetzco, David Gibbons, Chris Marra, Zach Trova, and the cover by Bagger43.
“In the year 2493, Earth’s wealthiest citizens left the planet behind. To make sure the unwashed masses could not follow them to their new stellar utopia, these kings of men unleashed a virus that caused the complete collapse of modern technology. The result: War. Starvation. Plague. Mutation. The great powers were wiped out. Fifteen years later, roving gangs of marauders and thieves run roughshod over the Venezuelan Wastelands, fighting over society’s scraps in ancient petrol-burning automobiles and 200-year-old battle-robots. Into this blasted landscape drives a man with one eye. A man with no fear. A man with no friends. A man called…Tuerto.”
Is ready the model number #0 from Perro Tureco, thank you very much to all collaborators for their excellent work, Carlos Etcheverry Borlo, Martín López, Diego Rondon y a Franco Rampaldi.
El Perro Tureco stopped at times to pursue the famous “El Silbón”, illustrious character of the Venezuelan imagery to become a representative anthology of Venezuelan comics, involving the visions of Venezuelan and Latin American artists, cartoonists, designers, and how many people exist within the scope of the construction of images.
Arises again from its founders the need, both as debt themselves, to see published one volume with the honors that he deserves the language of the comic, currently in this tropical land is scarce and thus we to fill this gap in the visual arts and graphics reinforce traditional cultural values that occur in Venezuela.
In short, PT is good to see printed in the mink role of artists and writers participating in it and want to perpetuate the graphic language.
It is an excuse to attract sequential graphic production, writing stories and literature if not enlightened.
Latin America is portraying through the chart.
Is to open a timeless space that allows to talk about what is happening at present.
It is a sort of treaty as a character vital. Is humanity.
Black and white, full machete.
Culture is to look through the comic.
PT now seeks to recover what has been sleeping in our Latin American culture, or as someone said at some point …. a culture indo-european-afro-american…
PT is Comic, and Comic is culture. Is to meet again after so long, joking and kicking ass. Is the use of a particular language, funny words, past tone, strong, heavy… in some ways a tribute to the story with sequential images.
¨We must create a world between two screams.¨
Over and out.
Zircons
My good friend Alexis Ziritt (Calavera Comics, Zircons) It was exposing its work in the 2nd Coming Art Show, in Orlando, Florida, excellent expo.
Alexis Ziritt: http://flickr.com/photos/aziritt/
Calavera Comics: http://www.calaveracomics.com
Zircons: http://www.zircons.net
Pale Horse: http://www.palehorsedesign.com/
Gustavo Rugeles and I (P3P510) we were invited to participate in the edition #5 of the Italian magazine of art FEFÈ, the concept of this edition was “It Wasn´t Planned”
It was a difficult task to give a graphic concept to “IT WASN’T PLANNED” due to the several meanings of the expression itself.
We thought about some keywords to develop this graphic proposal and we came up with a question: -How do we propose something that WASN’T PLANNED? – Precisely, every design work requires a previous plan before its execution but in many cases, we may come across unexpected things or elements beyond our prevision that change our initial plan and the conditions of the same. These events are also part of what we have planned. If we take all these elements into account, we might say that every creative process allows a specific amount of surprise elements, by chance or by casualties within its execution, this appeals to us because unplanned situations always result to be more interesting and even better. There is a particular phrase from where we come which suggests that when an individual acts freely, just like water does, therefore water has not have a certain destination, it places on unexpected places adapting to the circumstances. We find a similarity in this perception.
The graphic proposal that we have developed makes use of the “surprise” concept confronted with the vision of a non-human character. He contemplates the city, with the feelings generated by his own will, as a result of the modern system of life that has nourished mankind. By using the word city we suggest a chaotic order, soaked.
We confronted the composition opposing two principal elements, the machine character and the city. On the one hand, we emphasize the unexpected feeling, the conscience and the reflection of the character, on the other hand the maximum result of the chaotic urban orders of the city.
Kumo.Z – P3P510
FEFÈ Project: http://fefeproject.com
FEFÈ Myspace: http://myspace.com/fefeproject
Gustavo Rugeles: http://kumo-z.com
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