Two Brothers! In France and Brazil, so far.

Our new graphic novel, Two Brothers, is going to be published by Dark Horse in October, but it has already been released in Brazil and in France in March.

We've been to France to release it, also to represent Brazil in the Salon du Livre de Paris, since the country was the guest of honor. We toured for a week and visited Bordeaux, Pau, Nantes, Lille and Paris and all the signings were amazing. I will try to write a more detailed report here in the near future.







The release of the book here in Brazil was a blast. We always fear no one will show up, but it always surprises us how much readers and fans we have and how much love they have for our books. We have a big tour ahead of us and we are thrilled to travel with this book all around the country.





There's still a long way to go, but I can't wait for the book release in the U.S. We have comics to work on until then (Casanova? Umbrella Academy?), and we love comics.

By the way, you can already order Two Brothers on Amazon, Barnes and Noble and other online stores. And then wait until October. It's just around the corner.

"Deux Frères" French Tour 2015

We're leaving for France. The Salon du Livre is around the corner, and we're releasing our new book, "Deux Frères" with Urban Comics at the event. Afterwards, we'll be touring the country for the following week, visiting cities, bookstores and signing your books. Come meet us somewhere along the way. Here's our schedule:

-- March 20th-23rd - Salon du Livre de Paris

-- Friday, March 20th, Urban Comics stand (H29): signing (from 16h to 18h)

-- Saturday, March 21st, Urban Comics stand (H29): signing (from 14h to 16h)

-- Sunday, March 22nd:

1- Stand du Brésil, 12h30 to 13h45: Conference "Deux frères: liens déchirés en bande dessinée" - Fábio Moon, Milton Hatoum and Gabriel Bá

2- Salon littéraire CNL, 14h to 15h30, conference "L'âge d'or de la BD brésilienne" - with S. Lobo, Marcello Quintanhila, Daniel Galera, Fábio Moon et Wandrille

3- Stand du Brésil: signing from 15h30 to 16h30

After the Salon du livre, our tour begins.

--March 23, Paris

Signatures at the bookshop Bulles en tête, 15h to 18h
( Librairie Bulles en tête 54 Rue des Dames 75017 Paris)

--March 24, Bordeaux

Signatures at the bookshop Mollat, in the afternoon
( Librairie Mollat 15 Rue Vital Carles 33080 Bordeaux)

--March 25, Pau
Signatures at the bookshop Bachi-Bouzouk, 14h30 to 16h30
(Librairie Bachi-Bouzouk 7 Rue Latapie 64000 Pau)

-- March 26th, Nantes
Signatures at the bookshop La Mystérieuse Librairie Nantaise, 14h to 17h
(Librairie La Mystérieuse Librairie Nantaise 2 Rue de la Paix 44000 Nantes)

--March 27th, Lille
Signatures at the bookshop Librairie Astrocity, 12h30 to 14h30
(Librairie Astrocity 74 Rue de l’Hôpital Militaire 59000 Lille)

--March 27th, Paris
Signatures at the bookshop Librairie Les Super Héros, 17h to 19h ( Librairie Les Super Héros 175 Rue Saint-Martin 75003 Paris)

Tour de France 2013 - the video

The final chapter of our great adventure in France, now with images, sounds and a lot of traveling around.



Thanks to everyone who came to our signings. Thanks for the stores who opened their doors to us: La Bulle, Expérience, La Parenthèse, Bulles en Tête and Apo(k)Lyps.
And thanks for Urban Comics for everything they did for us. It was amazing.

Angoulême - part 2, or the French tour

There were two halfs of our trip to France. Going to the Festival at Angoulême was just the first one, and the second half was definetely the most different.

Using our lovely Parisian apartment as our home base, the Urban Comics crew sent us in a small signing tour around France: four cities in total, including Paris. Every day, we would wake up early, take a TGV train and cross the country to visit another city, give interviews to the local press and sign at a local bookstore, where we were always met with a mix of readers who had already read Daytripper and those who were discovering the book for the first time but, either out of a recommendation from the bookstore owner or out of their habit of going to signings.

It's incredible how every city in France appears to have a great bookstore specialized in Bande Dessinée and comics. We visited Bulle at Le Mans, which I think was the oldest one in our tour and was located in the oldest part of town, a beautiful medieval village near the remains of the wall built during Roman times. In Lyon, we visited Experience, a great bookstore with a ceiling filled with drawings from their visiting artists, a most distinguished collection from all around the world. We saw Craig Thompson's drawing, and Bannister's (he's from Lyon), Cyril Pedrosa's and so many more. Moebius also left his markings on that cave of wonders, and so did we.

Nancy, the smallest city in our tour, had the biggest bookstore, La Parenthèse, with a lot of space for the readers to discover all kinds of comics, old and new. One room, where we did our drawings and met the public, was filled with great automates, those wonderful handmade dolls which, when you press a button, move by themselves in the most ingenious ways.

In Paris, we visited two bookstores: Bulles en Tète, the newest in our trip, and Apo(K)lyps. Luckly, their were close to each other and we walked the distance from one another, but still that was our longest signing day, signing for three hours on the first and for almost the same time on the second.

We finished the last night of our tour with dinner with Pôl and François from Urban Comics at a great restaurant, eating well, drinking champagne, wine and talking about comics, past, present and future.

We don't know when, but this wasn't our last trip to France. This was the beginning of our french road. And our work has put us on this road and, if we continue to do good work, it's the work which will keep sending us across the globe. The work is the author's voice, the author's face. Our work is our passport.

Angoulême 2013 - the video

We did a little video with some images from the first part of our trip - the festival in Angoulême, the artists we knew, the town. I hope you like it.

CASANOVA in France

Here's the brand new cover I did for the French edition of CASANOVA - Luxuria.




Casanova is gonna be published in France by Urban Comics, to be release in January, 2013.

I'm prepared to sign a lot of Casanovas in Angoulême and on the other cities of our little French tour, as well of Daytripper (and every other book someone might bring) and do a lot of "dédicaces".

Sélection Officielle - Angouleme 2013

Daytripper just made it into the official selection of the Festival International de la Bande Dessinée d'Angoulême 2013.

The festival will take place from January 31st until February 3rd, 2013, and we will be there! When the time comes and we know more about it, we'll put our whole schedule over here.
Thanks everyone for this never ending amazing ride.

Merci beaucoup.
Nous sommes très heureux. 
Nous voyions en Angoulême.

Utopiales - Prix de la meilleure BD

Daytripper has just won the Award for best "album de bande dessinée" at Les Utopiales, in Nantes, France


Merci a tout le monde.
Nous sommes très heureux.

Quai des Bulles - merci pour tout.

I just returned from this beautiful festival in France called Quai des Bulles, that happens every year in Saint Malo in the region of Bretagne and is the second biggest comics festival in France, after only Angoulême. It was nothing short of incredible.

Daytripper was nominated for an award called Prix Ouest France, which we didn't win, but with the trip, I won much more than I could possibly imagine.
Saint Malo is a beautiful city and I had a great time, met wonderful people, artists, fans and the people from the festival. Every day there was new discoveries, and every night, new mysteries. I met my friend Frederik Peeters by chance there (the fact that I was invited one week from the festival made the entire experience a surprise for me, since I had no time to make plans), and met many artists from Nantes, many friends of my friend Cyril Pedrosa, who was in a festival in Portugal that weekend. Also, meeting Bastien Vivès was nice. I also bumped a couple of times with Sean Phillips there, he was one of the guests of honor, with a beautiful exhibition of originals.
  
 
 
  
I couldn't recommend this festival hard enough for anyone interested in seeing what French comics have to offer, and how incredible creative the stories, the books, the artists and the festival environment all are. Thanks to François, Florian, Anneclaire, Emmanuel, Gérald, Clémentine and everybody else who made this such an unforgettable trip for me.

Daytripper - Au jour le jour

The French edition of our beloved Daytripper is ready, a beautiful hardcover, and it will be out on April 27th, published by Urban Comics, a division of the Dargaud group. We will be in Napoli for NAPOLI COMICON at the time and I hope I can get my hands in one copy (aside from the Italian and Spanish editions as well. Yes, I think the European market is all connected and works as one big thing. I know it's not that simple).
There's a nice new introduction by Cyril Pedrosa (and it keeps the beautiful illustrated piece by Craig Thompson). You can get all the information about the book here.



Thanks everyone who made it possible, specially François, who took such good care of our book at Urban Comics.