R.I.P. Moebius

So, the most important and influent artist in my life is gone.

I always thought of him as an immortal, not just because of his incredible works, but also for being driven by his passion so much that I’d believe he would live, and draw, forever.
I feel like I lost a very close person, I’m struck by this loss.

Goodbye Moebius, thanks for all you’ve done and all you’ve created. We’ll miss you.

Crawling Crystal

Crawling Crystal, a photo by det.roc.boi on Flickr.

Here's the Pipgibo comic I already told about. I wanted to make an experiment and try drawing a short comic, with as less dialogues as possible, and here it is.
I made it in a couple of days, just to get rid of some stress.

You can read more of my comics in the Detrocboi booklet. It's on sale, c'mon, buy it!
For prints, check my Society6 page.
Cheerio.

Vor-T-Rex on Lodaçal Comix 5

Vor-T-Rex on Lodaçal Comix 5, a photo by det.roc.boi on Flickr.

Here's the first page of Vor-T-Rex, my contribution to Lodaçal Comix 5 which is coming out in mid-March. You already can preorder it and do it, because it's going to be amazing with so many great artists featured.

Vor-T-Rex is the craziest comic I made so far, and it was a really great experience, you can read more of my comics in the Detrocboi booklet. It's on sale, c'mon, buy it!

Detrocboi Prints On Society6

Hey, I opened an account on Society 6.
You can purchase high quality prints of my illustrations on this page; I'll upload most of the illustrations that are already up on Flickr in the following days.
If you want to get Detrocboi comic books or original artwork go on this other page.

On Sale!

Hey, I've put a special sale price on Detrocboi Booklet 1! Go for it, there aren't many copies left!

The Blumafuria Explorers

The Blumafuria Explorers, a photo by det.roc.boi on Flickr.

The Zeta Zero Zap heroes that discovered and explored the hidden city of Blumafuria.

As usual, A4 thick paper and copics.

This drawing is up for sale at my Bigcartel page. along with some others, go check them!

Today In The Mailbox: Katsuya Terada & Hiroshi Homura mini books

So, today, just right before snow started to fall again; I received a package from Japan with a couple of books.

The books are Shasho and Kacho, two small, hardcover, publications featuring text, maybe poetry, probably short stories, by Hiroshi Homura and art by Katsuya Terada.

The books are from 2003 and 2006.

 

The one with the grey cover is Shasho, from 2003 and features Terada's art depicting what I think are horror or creepy stories, some of his illustrations show a Frankenstein monster and a lady with a vampire bat flying above her. There's also a really cool spread with a circus crew, but I couldn't scan it.

The last tale features a little kid and maybe the best illustrations in the book.

Don't you love these? I absolutely do.

In both books Terada's art is rough enough to remind his Rakugaking book.

Kacho instead presents stories about a small robot, a kid and some weirder stuff about people eating.

There's also a part with these character drawings.

 

And, the best ones of the lot, a series of his Moebius-y drawings, already used as covers for the Japanese magazine relax.

 

These strangely armored women's portraits are among my favorite Terada's works, I used to be very inspired by these when I first saw them on internet years ago.

I like their simplicity and how they manage to be rich with details and atmosphere with a really simple series of lines.

So, I'm glad I finally got these books, but I think they are fan material for Terada's addicts like me; I wish that some new book like Rakugaking or Zenbu pops out soon.