Roberto Macedo Alves

José Maria Eça de Queirós, one of the most important figures of Portuguese Literature. Born in 1845 in Póvoa de Varzim. Died in Paris, in the year 1900. Pictorically revived for the “Breaking the Fourth Wall” Art Exhibit.

If you don’t know his literary output… try it! I consider it highly recommended reading.

As part of the “Breaking the 4th Wall” exhibit, here is a self-portrait (comics version) that will be presented alongside other watercolors and stuff for the next April 6th Exhibit in the Art Forum space.

Acryllic and india ink over white cloth. And a slightly thinner version of me.

What’s your answer to “paper or plastic?” How about, “No thanks!”

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April 6th. Forum Madeira Shopping Center. Watercolors and Mixed Media based on two of the most important works of Portuguese Literature: OS MAIAS, written by José Maria Eça de Queirós and OS LUSIADAS, written by Luís de Camões.

Here is the image of the invitation, Carlos da Maia and Maria Eduarda over the text of the first time they met.

Thanks to Jen Contino and Grace Randolph, I had the privilege do do some drawings for today’s GRAPHIC DEBATE column, an interview with Mystique.

The finished work was done with watercolors, but here is a small peek of the original pencil drawing of Mystique morphing to Warren Worthington:

I am not sure if I can talk about this, but this is just a small teaser for an upcoming GRAPHIC DEBATE Column, written by the fantastic and talented Grace Randolph, who thought that my artwork was good enough for the interview that is going to be online this week!

So, this is a small homage to Grace Randolph and the GRAPHIC DEBATE!

When this blog started, it was written in Portuguese, and the original idea was to write ocasionally about books, reading, drawings and posting some sketches from time to time – partially inspired on the blog of the fantastic Mike Wieringo.
Progressively, it grew to something that was getting written almost daily, and besides sketches I started talking about stuff from my upcoming Art Exhibits and the books I was buying and such. When I decided to start checking who was reading what, and I started to analyze the statistics of the site visitors, I noticed that most of the visitors came from other countries (not from Portugal or Brazil, the main portuguese-speaking languages). So, as February ended and March started, I decided to change the format (or at least the language) of this blog.

So, when I was doing the final balance of February, I noticed several endings (starting with some childish hopes and fantasies): Y the Last Man (from Vaughan and Guerra), for example. It has been a familiar companion for years… The first book I used to start reading once I opened the comic box every month. I was thinking about that when I was uninstalling my latest video-installation (done with Pencil Drawings and an animation based on the finale of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony) – and I decided to start this new month with some new posts, and this choice on a different language. As I said. Endings… and new Beginnings!

Just to make life easier for all those non-portuguese-speaking people that visit my blog. Thanks to you all.