Amadora BD 2017 (Lisbonne 1)

We just got back from the Amadora BD festival near Lisbon in Portugal.

Stanley and I attended to support the CONTAR O MUNDO, an international exhibit on comics and journalism. Stanley had pages from EXTRACTION! A comix reportage to which I wrote the script based on the reportage by journalist Tamara Herman.

We were interviewed by the curator of the exhibit Sara Fugueiredo Costa and did a walking tour of the exhibit with her. You can see part of the tour on the vidéo here. We met some amazing people including Mike Royer pictured below with me and Stanley, also the curators for the Jack Kirby, the directors of the Jack Kirby museum (Tom Kraft), the owners of original Jack Kirby art who loaned their million dollar pieces for the exhibit and, fellow comics journalist Ted Rall.

It was truly an amazing experience. They portuguese visitors and comics fan always greeted us with warmth, some knowing of your past work (wich always surprises me). We were taken on tours, treated to delicious portuguese meals and epic suppers.

As TRIP publishers, we hope this visit will be the start of some future collaborations. We talked to publishers and local comics experts who helped us discover terrific artists form Portugal. Big thanks to Marcos from Chili Com Carne and especially, Ligia Macedo in charge of International Relations and Marta. A very enligntening and fruitful journey.

We will be back!

On vient tout juste de revenir après avoir passé une semaine merveilleuse au Portugal dans le cadre du festival de bande dessinée AMADORA BD. J'y étais avec Stanley Wany pour représenter le Québec et le Canada afin d'y présenter des planches originales dans le cadre de l'exposition CONTAR O MUNDO, sur le journalisme en bande dessinée. Nous fûmes interviewé par la commissaire de l'exposition  Sara Fugueiredo Costa et nous l'avons accompagné lors d'une visite commentée de l'expositon où nous avons eu l'occasion de parler devant le public de notre travail commun. Cette vidéo donne une petite idée de l'exposition, cliquer ici.

Nous avons rencontré des personnalités et personnages fasscinants comme Mike Royer, encreur pour Jack Kirby et tout un artiste par lui-même, ayant croisé le chemin des plus grands auteurs de comics américains des annnées 70-90. Ted Rall nous a régalé avec ses histoires de voyages dans des territoires volatiles où des journalistes qui le cotoyaient perdire la vie. Avec nous, il y avait aussi les commissiaires et propriétaires des orginaux de Kirby incluant Tom Kraft du musée Jack Kirby.
Ce fut une expérience de festival hors du commun. Les visiteurs portugais connaissait déjà nos oeuvres antérieurs! Stanley et moi avons vendu plusieurs livres, fait des échanges et établit des liens pour de futures collaborations. Gros merci à Marcos de Chili Com Carne et spécialement à Ligia Macedo en charge des Relations Internationales et Marta.

Stanley Wany, Mike Royer & Marc Tessier (photo by Marta at Amadora BD)

Amadora BD, entrance to a two level arena wide comics festivals with multiple exhibits.

Tom Craft, one of the curators of the Jack Kirby exhibit and responsible for the Jack Kirby Museum.
He's posing in front of the entrance to the Kirby exhibit curated by Mário Freitas.

Stanley Wany & Sara Figueiredo Costa.
Sara is the curator of the journalism in comics international exhibit in which Stanley Wany,
Skip Jensen and myself are representing Canada and Québec.

A very rich and interesting walking tour of the journalism in comics exhibit
with Stanley Wany, myself and curator Sara Figueiredo Costa.

Michael Royer with Marta and Ligia Macedo
(in charge of International Relations, wearing Mike's comboy hat)) and Stanley Wany.

Mike Royer drawing a Micky on a napkin for lucky Marta.

Stanley Wany in front of some of his original art at the Journalism exhibit.

4 pages from Skip Jensen's Un Client habituel (Éditions TRIP).

The festival present multiple exhibits showcasing comic art in new and original ways.

Some originals (and amazing pages) by Jack Kirby to celebrate his 100th birthday

Mike Royer used to ink the pencilled pages of Jack Kirby.
You can see his work on many of Jack Kirby's Fourth World series including Kamandi.

Some of the work by local portuguese poster artist and designer Nuno Saraiva.

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Stanley getting his workshop ready.

Workshop begins as Stanley makes each participant pick two symbolic cards
from which they have to improvise and draw a 4 panel story.

The workshop participants were amazing, each naturally coming up
with a personal story following the guidelines set by Stanley.

Stanley and I had 3 signing sessions, Stanley did not stop, signing book after book selling close to 20 books!

Marc Tessier and Stanley Wany with their books at the Amadora BD festival.

Mike Royer craking another joke that makes Stan smile!

Michael Royer, gentleman comboy, inker & artist with the curator of the Jack Kirby exhibit Mario Freitas.

Ligia Macedo in charge of International Relations and the best hostess we could ask for.
A big thanks to Ligia and Marta who made this such an amazing trip for us!