QUADRADINHOS : Sguardi sul fumetto portoghese / Looks on Portuguese Comics : ESGOTADO / SOLD OUT

Treviso Comic Book Festival is the third most biggest Comics Festival in Italy but still is a relaxed event and most important it has a good eye on comics made outside of Italy! Blame Alberto Corradi for this, as curator he already made exhibitions about Sweden, New Zealand, Denmark and this year... Portugal!

And for the first time there's a catalogue thanks to the effort of Treviso Fest, Mimisol and Chili Com Carne with the important support of Portuguese government - DGLAB and IPDJ institutions.

This catalogue is a comics anthology made by the artists invited for the festival's exhibition and includes a preface by Marcos Farrajota and a small History of Portuguese comics by Corradi. Most of the comics have been published in Portugal but then... have you seen them?

So you can enjoy 88 pages of comics (most are full colour) of a wide range of authors, coming from the underground to the international mainstream and from the new breed to older artists: João Fazenda, André Coelho with Manuel João Neto (same team of Terminal Tower), José Smith Vargas, Ana Biscaia (Best Portuguese Illustration Prize 2013) with João Pedro Mésseder, Nuno Saraiva, Francisco Sousa Lobo (The Dying Draughtsman, Art Review), Afonso Ferreira (Love Hole), Pedro Burgos, Filipe Abranches, Miguel Rocha with Susana Marques, Joana Afonso with André Oliveira, Jorge Coelho (Image, Marvel) with Paul Allor (from USA), Pepedelrey and Rudolfo (Negative Dad).

Book written in Italian and English.

Last copies at Mundo Fantasma, Matéria Prima, LAC, Utopia, Quimby's (Chicago) and BdMania.

Feedback: in Ler BD blog in Portuguese here ... one of best Portuguese "graphic novels" by Pedro Moura / Paul Gravett ... Nominated for Best Comics Related Publication and Short Story (by Rudolfo) for the Central Comics 2015 Prizes ... Presentation in Modo Infoshop (Bologna) on the 6th Juin 2015 ... se da una mezcla de estilos e influencias lógica, dado el espíritu de la publicación. Así, nos movemos del cómic de raíz más comercial, representado por Paul Allor y Jorge Coelho —ambos experimentados en el mercado estadounidense— hasta el experimentalismo radical de la historia de Filipe Abranches, excelente. (...) Afonso Ferreira, uno de los más jóvenes, es un representante del nutrido grupo de dibujantes profundamente influidos por la animación contemporánea del tipo Hora de aventuras y por Michael DeForge, y por eso recuerda también a lo que está haciendo Cristian Robles en España. Y por último, hay que destacar la contribución de Francisco Sousa Lobo, quizás el más interesante y personal de los autores portugueses que conozco.  Luego volveremos sobre él. Geraldo Vilches in The Watcher and the Tower