Dear friends and artists,
I've decided to create a Facebook Professional account to promote your awesome Tributes to Valentina to promote Fantagraphics Crepax collection.
https://www.facebook.com/manuel.faria.754918
Don't judge me wrong, I love you all a lot and I sincerely apreciate all your support with some of my ideas, but I need to split in my mind what's Professional and what's personal in order to gain more focus in the work that I do, be it curating exhibitions, book collections, interviews, presentation videos, prefaces to books or book presentations.
I'll organize the tributes by artist in alphabetical order and put each artist in bold to be easier for you to see your tributes and where they were exhibited along your quotes about the character Valentina and your Biography aswell.
Many thanks to all of you for all your work and hope that you continue to support some of my ideas.
Special thanks to Gary Groth, Caterina Crepax and my muse and source of inspiration, my kitty Ilvie that was stolen from my sight recently.
Ágata Rola - "Valentina's drawings strucked me since I was a kid, they re so different from all the other comics I knew, even today I still think there s nothing like it."
Born in Porto 1979, studied Literature and Languages in Porto University. As an artist she mostly paints watercolours.
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| Exhibited in the second exhibition at boémia caffe in Porto in 2016 |
Ana Biscaia - "She likes so much to sing Johnny Cash Ring of fire:
I fell into a ring of fire"
Biography
Ana Maria Biscaia (1978).
Illustrator and graphic designer.
She studied Communication design at Aveiro University.
Master of Fine Arts – Grafisk design & illustration – Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm.
Born in Figueira da Foz in 1978. When she was a child, she remembers falling asleep and her father was drawing in fron of her eyes.
It was on 2006 she illustrated her first book for a publisher called & etc. : Negrume, by Amadeu Baptista. With these illustrations she applied to Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design and she goes to Stockholm to study illustration with professor Andreas Berg. Part of the essence of her work is related with the words of his professor. Illustration is a discipline that produces knowledge. Research is fulcral for every Project. Illustration let us go into a subject and we can lear a lot from doing it.
Inspirations: people, cinema, poesia, música, food, portuguese language, my hours of sleep, the fear. Tiago Manuel, André Lemos, Maria Keil. Sérgio Godinho, Zeca Afonso, Arianna Vairo.
In 2009 she illustrated “Poesia de Luís de Camões para todos” (published by Porto Editora) and she got a distinction of the jury of the National Prize of Illustration.
In 2012, she was selected to take part of “Como as Cerejas” exhibition and to represent Portugal in Bologna Book Fair.
In 2013 she received the National Prize of Illustration with the book “A cadeira que queria ser sofá.” by Clovis Levi (published by Lápis de Memórias).
She takes part in different projects of illustration, comics and graphic design
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| Exhibited at Finland - Helsinki comic book festival - 2016 |
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| Not yet exhibited |
Débora FM - "An exploration of eroticism, still relevant in today's age. And when that happens, you know you have a work of art for eternity."
Biography
Born and raised in Porto, Portugal, Débora is still trying to find her identity as an artist and what she wants to do with her work. Meanwhile she does experimental work and tries to find new ways to explore illustration and comics.
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| Exhibited in the second exhibition at boémia caffe in Porto in 2016 |
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| Not yet exhibited |
Derradé - "Valentina: a graphic and mental (r)evolution."
Biography
Derradé: (1971 - ...) Alverca - Portugal
contact darioruiduarte@sapo.pt
facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/badsummerboys
Prefered music band: The Clash.
Started doing comics in "The BadSummerboys Fanzine" (1993). Haven't stopped since.
I mainly do comic strips or short stories in a black and white DYI adult humorous vein.
My main influencies are the brazilian authors Angeli, Laerte, Glauco and Adão.
My book “Há Piores !” (the title is a joke conserning it's literal meaning: "There is worse!" and the phonetic sound in English :"Up Yours!") won
the Central Comics 2012 Award for Best Humor publication, by public vote, against contenders like Zits and Baby Blues.
Books edited (all in Portugal):
By Polvo: “Fúria”(1999), “Fava!”(2000),”Pai Natal – um estudo morfológico”(2001) e “A 25, sempre a Abril!”(2002), “Há Piores !” (2011) ; “Há Piores ! 2” (2012) and “Há Piores ! 3” (2014) .
By Calçada das Letras: "BESTOF" (2013)
By Escorpião Azul: "Segunda Oportunidade" (2014), "Edição Extra" (2015)
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| Exhibited at Beja comic book festival in Portugal - 2014 and Finland - Helsinki - comic book festival in 2016 |
Osvaldo Medina - "Valentina, black and white, yesterday and today. Always"
Biography
Born in November of 1973 in Luanda , Angola. Arrived in Portugal in the summer of 1975. Soon , before first grade , discovers pens and pencils and started doodling on every paper that he could find. Works in comics, animation, storyboard, etc.
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| Not yet exhibited |
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| Exhibited at Beja comic book festival in 2014 |
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| Not yet exhibited |
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| Not yet exhibited |
Paula Fonseca - No words.
Biography
A simple woman born in Gaia in 1970 that loves to create things in her mind and put them in practise.
Co-founder of the concept invictaindiearts in 2010 and part of the organization of Mab comic book festival held in Porto - Portugal in 2012.
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| Not yet exhibited |
Paulo Pinto - "Balentina no Porto, Crepax's pencil grabs our attention while we watch the babes that he drew, looking at them, lost in papers, we start dreaming awake"
Biography
Born at Porto in the 19th Century somewhere near Douro river. Loves to draw his TOWN as much as he can putting his characters there. Drew for portuguese, french, swiss, spanish and german fanzines, also to portuguese newspapers such as Expresso and Público.
Went to several comic events as Porto Cartoon and others. Continues drawing for portuguese newspaper 'A voz de Ermesinde' while trying to figure how to draw for more than ten years. He's trying to publish his own book since the beginning of the 20th Century.
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| Not yet exhibited |
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| Exhibited at Finland - Helsinki - comic book festival - 2016 |
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| Not yet exhibited |
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| Exhibited in the first boémia caffe exhibition in 2016 |
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| Not yet exhibited |
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| Exhibited in the second exhibition at boémia caffe in Porto in 2016 |
Quico Nogueira - "Whether you like it or not, Guido Crepax's Valentina is a black and white stylish freedom statement hard to ignore."
Biography
"Relatos confirmam que desde sempre foi visto à volta de lápis, canetas e papel. Após ter terminado o curso de Engenharia Civil e três anos de trabalho na área, optou por dar vazão à sua paixão pela banda desenhada, ilustração e cinema. Conta com vários primeiros prémios em concursos Nacionais de Banda Desenhada e Ilustração."
Ricardo Drumond -
Biography
Drumond is a freelance illustrator based in Lisbon, Portugal. Picked a sketchbook and a pencil to draw while waiting 9 months to be born and his destiny was traced. Is currently working with NBA, magazines, newspapers and other brands and wants to do Comic Books. Accepts commissions until his head explodes.
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| Exhibited at Beja comic book festival in Portugal - 2014 |
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| Published in the first free limited booklet in Fantagraphics first Crepax book in 2016 |
Sérgio Rocha - "The Janitor of my exile was overjoyed by her visit after the ninth experiment."
Biography
Too many words.
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| Exhibited at Beja comic book festival in Portugal - 2014 and Finland - Helsinki - comic book festival in 2016 |
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