Adios

Goodbye

Aufwiedersen.

Adieu

We have started this month with a great loss to us all.

Our sensei Seth Fisher has died on the 30th of January in Tokyo. It was a very big shock for us because he died in a terrible way. Seth was 34.

We have met Seth in 2004 when he came to Portugal as a guest of the FIBDA. Seth was our teacher,or sensei as we like to call him, during a saturday afternoon that will be forever with us.

Seth Fisher was an amazing professional with a great imagination. He inspired us to never give up and he also gave us some excelent hints before we released Sketchbook.

We at Estúdio de BD-AjCOI will miss him a lot.

Condolences can be sent to his wife Hisako and son Toufuu in his site

[link]

Soon there will be a sale of his art in his website to help his wife and their 4-months-child.

We invite everyone to contribute.

Sorry but this is just for Portuguese people or Non-portuguese living in Portugal

Caros amigos,


A Associação Juvenil - COI no âmbito da 11ª edição do “Março a partir” vai promover o segundo “Concurso de Banda Desenhada - Jovens talentos 2006”.

Nesta segunda edição o tema é “A Noite”. Serão aceites trabalhos individuais ou em grupo, num máximo de quatro páginas em formato A4 ou A3, a cores ou a preto a branco, com legendagem explícita e sem erros ortográficos (aconselha-se o uso de computador).

A comunidade de jovens artistas está convidada a participar, desde que tenham as idades compreendidas entre os 15 e os 30 anos. Os trabalhos devem ser enviados por correio até ao dia 1 de Março de 2006.

Cada autor/equipa de autores terá ainda que enviar uma ficha técnica que deverá conter:

­Dados pessoais (Nome completo, idade e data de nascimento);
­Uma fotocópia do Bilhete de Identidade de cada membro da equipa criativa;
­Contactos pessoais (Morada, E-mail, N.º de telefone/telemóvel).

Os trabalhos devem ser enviados para:
“Concurso de BD - Jovens Talentos 2006”, Associação Juvenil - COI - Rua 7 de Fevereiro, Bloco B - A11/12 | 2955-124 Pinhal Novo .

Para mais informações podem contactar-nos através do e-mail:

in_comics_we_trust@hotmail.com

É de referir que o primeiro prémio terá direito a um prémio monetário de 200 euros e os três primeiros classificados serão convidados a publicar uma história de 10 (dez) páginas na revista Sketchbook.

Todos os participantes receberão ainda um prémio de participação oferta das editoras: Devir, Vitamina BD/BD MANIA e Naraneko.

Ficamos à vossa espera.


Espalhem a palavra!

2006 has come and we are preparing the second number of our magazine (Pst! number 2 is out next March).

The next artists to be presented are Pedro Roxo Nogueira, Andreia Rechena and Sérgio Xarepe. Stay tunned for more developments.

If you haven't found number 1, send an e-mail to Devir: devir@devir.pt

I'm back, ready for round two.

The magazine is a success. We thank to everyone who bought the magazine last sunday and appeared in the signing session.

For some of our artists, who had never sign anything, it was an astonishing experience.

During 2 hours and 30 minutes they signed the magazine, they gave sketchs and it was only supposed to be for one hour, but you can't imagine how many people appeared during the signing.

Are we happy?

Yes.

Are we ready for more?

Oh, yeah.

The magazine will be on specific shops next December. We will give you more information here, on our website, and on [link]

Thank you everybody. We will try do even better next issue.

Diogo Valadas- The editor

P.S.: Mr. Maia, Mr. Martins, Mr. Nekh, Mr. Moura, Mr. Henryk and Mr. Dan, you ARE the champions...