In this LINK is an interview I did for the magazine Trip! Brazil. Down here
hit the answers in English. The site is in Portuguese.
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1. I started doing a strip called Lord of the kiosk, in 2004. When I tried to register my site (since I always published my comics online) I found I could not use the Ñ in a URL. So I came to kioskerman.com and direction. Over time people assumed that I was the "man" and that was my nickname. And let that happen well. Somehow I was baptized. Not that I chose.
2. It's kind of weird because I do not like to draw by drawing. I do not enjoy the fact of producing an aesthetic object such as a drawing. I am interested in the comic strip and especially as a tool to express myself. When I draw in my notebooks is to practice using the tool. But the bad drawing step for drawing. I'm bored and I have no patience. I enjoy sketching, making quick sketches that can be read almost as a symbol.
Yes you could say that what led me to use the comic as a tool was read Macanudo 1 of Liniers. Rather than see that he wanted to be a cartoonist, I saw a possibility for me when I read Macanudo.
3. The theme of Eden is the chaos of my mind and how that chaos mutates every year. That is one of the things I love about the strip format. I try to be faithful to it, follow my changes. Hence there is a fixed item, but if a couple of recurring themes, which are those that haunt me somehow. Perhaps in the strips that make up my first book was interested in love and death as themes. Now I'm around from the outside, starting more interested in finding a private world that is beyond the "idea" of architecture that you create with reason. I think the second book will have more to do with the night and some half mystical (Not to find a better word). I developed an interest in poetry. That is something completely new for me.
4. I think there is a giant in internet space for artists right? I see the Internet and its operation as space for the development of a counterculture. I am very interested as the Internet fosters the development of authors. And how can witness a hit and error, growth.
5. My way of working was influenced very little as the Internet. I work thinking of a book. Internet helps me a lot because the four-panel strip works very well. Since the Internet attention span is short. But Internet is just a broadcast medium. Almost nothing does not affect my work. Instead, the book does not affect it. Eden Since I wanted my book to look like those in Peanuts, with a grid that never changes.
6. My references in the drawing are many and always mutate. I read lots of comics and every year it influence me something new. I could not tell you something today that will not change tomorrow. Yes there are authors who are critical today for me: John Porcellino and George Herriman. Also, these last four years I was totally obsessed with Bob Dylan and has influenced me tremendously. Also with William Blake. Eden My new book will have a lot of these artists because I try to be my guides. My favorite reading (comic) this year were "Monsters" by Ken Dahl (Gabby Schulz) and "Alan's War" by Emmanuel Guibert.
7. Yes I know some comics in Brazil. I love what they do Fabio Zimbra Adao, Sica and Pig. I am impressed by the things made there and in fact I wrote about it in my blog.
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