by Vinicius Oliveira Alves
From the 60s, the comics were the subject of studies by their artistic potential and media, its infinite possibilities and as a cultural event.
In the 70s, the comics had a break in the status quo, when artists especially in Europe, seeking new forms and concepts to make comics, breaking the traditionalism of counting sequential storytelling.
It is worth mentioning that period, the Metal Hurlant magazine for its innovative material, the Les Humanoids Associes group of innovative comic artists, authors such as Phillipe Druillet, Caza, Moebius and other so-called European and North American Underground; as innovative manifestations of storytelling in comics, showing focus, structure and diverse themes.As in many fields of art, in the comics artists saw and felt the need to innovate their language and make your comic modernize into a new century.
Was that amid the economic crisis that Brazil would experience in the next decade, which brought the first manifestations of this evolution of comics in our country, and despite these influences shed new comic that would arise in Brazil was unique, rich content and artistic value and with a characteristic and own identity that we find only in their authors, Comics Poetic and Philosophical, they are a genuine evolution of graphic narrative process, including often subliminal, heraldry, break of paradigms, etc.
The so-called Poetic and Philosophical comics, showing a mixture of poetic and philosophical texts with innovative designs and structure differed much from traditional comics since its frames division to the format of balloons and with a perspective of reflection, self , the reference to the spiritual aspects of existence, critical to many of the dominant values in today's society.
The pioneers and artists who stood out in the movement are: Gazy Andraus, Edgar Franco, Flavio Calazans, Antonio Amaral, Eduardo Manzano, style precursors. There are also some artists of the medium carried forward work in this style in the same time as Henry Jaepelt, Wally Viana, Joacy Jamys, Luciano Irrthum, Al Greco, Rosemário H.S, Soter Bentes and Norival Bottos Jr,
On the other hand, in the same period, another group of artists initiated an equally innovative production, with philosophical and existential content, showing urban themes, despair and loneliness in the consumer society, foretelling one nihilistic future, influenced by post punk bands, darks and electronic that decade
Innovation in both arguments in the presentation of the drawings were also off in these comics.
Artists like Alberto Monteiro, Weaver, Yuri Hermuche, Law Tissot, Fabio Zimbres, Ricardo Borges, Dikos, Claudio C.M.S. They are significant names of this strand. Sometimes joined their hq's, in the same edition of a publication, self-titling Brotherhood Unusual.
Here it is worth mentioning that despite never having been related, the actual work of renowned artist Lorenzo Mutarelli in its first phase with albums like Transubstantiation, bastards and I love you Lucimar treasured elements similar to Poetic and Philosophical comics.
But with the artistic evolution and the emergence of new artists with influences from both styles, their own monikers Poetic and Philosophical and Existential Comics, were limited.
Artists such as Edgar Franco, with his research with comics in the virtual world, esoteric symbolism and its Aurora Post Apocaliptica, Flavio Calazans with their studies heraldica and subliminal messages; Gazy Andraus investing in spiritual and oriental themes, a fluid and free trace; Eduardo Manzano the most nihilistic of the group, mixing vampirism, mythology and urban tales; and sui generis Antonio Amaral an innovative artist in the extreme, using chemicals and mathematicians, mixed with folklore in his Hippocampus publication and other works; They created their own worlds and their own language mixing the two components and other elements, creating these modern comics with intelligent, innovative content that we agreed here called Neo Comics, including this revolutionary language is totally adapted to the revolution of information technology and cyberspace .The term Neo Comics is best suited to the innovative features of these comics that break with traditional paradigms comics and show the language of the new century and a final incurssão of comics as sublime and pluralistic Art.
These artists have innovated the way to see and count the comics, believing in its diversity and plurality and seeking the evolution of comic language and intelligent search of them, in return for commercial interests.
Today we see a new generation of artists whose comics are direct influence of these pioneers of the 80s.Both movements emerged in Brazil in the circuit of fanzines and alternative publications, as they had no immediate release in major publications, given the character of national publications and the profile of the own Brazilian player, almost mostly submitted exclusively to the commercial market north comics Americans and more recently the manga.
Mindful of this new wave of comics and the number of artists who followed these trends, the comic artist, researcher, teacher and doctor by the French Sorborne, Henrique Magalhães, created in 1995 his comic label called Fantasy Brand, which in addition to the pioneering post artists outside the major publishing houses, created in February 95 Tyli magazine Tyli totally dedicated to the study and publication of poetic-philosophical and existential comics, with the development of language the same as quoted above, and seeking to cover a greater number of trends within the genre, the magazine was renamed Mandala in May 1998, still today the pioneer and unique in the genre.
the fact should be added to the Fantasy Brand still have released albums like War of Flavio Calazans Ideas, Agartha and Transessência Edgar Franco, Ternary MEN Gazy Andraus and Hqs Eduardo Manzano, Yuri Hermuche, etc., placing on the market comic varguardistas work that would hardly be published by major publishers interested solely in commercial profit.
It is important to remember and add that these comics as avant-garde just emerged in Brazil, a country where every cultural manifestation is seen almost as superfluous and almost suffocated from its embryonic stage. One can imagine that these artists and their art from the beginning and even today are fought by some people with a limited and conservative vision of comics, usually people connected and consumers exclusively commercial comics and linked to mercantilist interests them.
Thanks to academic training, intelligence and content of the works of these artists, their comics surpassed empty criticism and flock to the future to write his chapter in the important book of comics. If comics got their place in the sun, such as auto level art, these Neo-Comics definitely settle the sequential art as artistic excellence object.
Authors:
CIBERPAJÉ (EDGAR FRANCO)
Born on September 20, 1971, in Ituiutaba, Minas Gerais, the comic went early in the life of Edgar Franco. At 12 he published his first comic in a fanzine, developing a love constantly renewed by this form of expression. He graduated in architecture and urbanism at the University of Brasilia (UNB), where he began his research on the language of comics and their interfaces with the architecture, years after the breakthrough of this research came to result in the book Comics and Architecture, published by Fantasy publisher mark in 2004.
In his master's degree in Multimedia at Unicamp studied the comics on the Internet, baptizing this hybrid language of comics and hypermedia HQtrônicas (stories in electronic comics), research that was the basis for the book HQtrônicas: Holder Paper Internet Network published in 2005 by Annablume partnership between publishers and FAPESP. In 2006 he completed his doctorate in Arts at ECA / USP, and is Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning courses & Science PUC-MG Computer Unit (Pocos de Caldas). Stories as a researcher in comics and art-technology has had several articles published in magazines and books and has presented his research for more than eight years in Congress as Intercom, Lusocom, Compós and SBPC. His doctoral research, Perspectives in Post-Human Cyberarts, was awarded the Research Directions 2003 Itaú Cultural Center program in São Paulo.
As an illustrator and comic artist has dozens of pages published in magazines in Brazil and abroad as Quadreca, Brasilian Heavy Metal, Nektar, Heavy Metal, Quark, Ferocious Female, Green Pea, Mephisto (Germany), Dragon's Breath (England) Ah, BD! (Romania), in addition to solo albums Agartha, Transessência and Elegy published by Fantasy Brand, and BioCyberDrama in partnership with Mozart Couto, edited by Opera Graphica. Franco has also tried to create jobs for hypermedia supports, including the HQtrônicas Ariadne and the Post-Human Maze participant Shows Arts - SESC SP / 2005 and NeoMaso promised that received an honorable mention in the 13th Videobrasil - International Electronic Art Festival (SESC Pompeia / 2001). He is the author of industrial music project / ambient Posthuman Tantra. You can learn more about Edgar Franco, his works and projects by reading the interviews he gave to the sites Joacy Jamys, Alan Moore Lord of Chaos and Sand Hostile. You can also access the personal website and artist fotolog.
Keeps the net:
http://www.ritualart.net/
https://www.facebook.com/Oidicius?fref=ts
GAZY ANDRAUS
He graduated in Arts Education at FAAP (Armando Alvares Penteado Foundation), Master in Visual Arts by the Arts Institute of Unesp (State University of São Paulo), with the thesis "There is a Comic in empty between two Comics (or: 'The koan in Stories Copyright Comics Adult '), "and currently a doctoral student in Information Sciences and Documentation by the School of Communication and Arts of the University of São Paulo; is a fellow of CNPHQ (Core Search Stories in Comics, the same university) and professor at FAAP. Author and researcher of comics, started publishing the fanzine Barata, and then many others like Matrix (awarded best fanzine in I HQs Biennial of Rio de Janeiro), ideas, Mandala, La Bouche du Monde (France), flight of the Eagle and traits and paints, both of Portugal. Also published in magazines Female Feroz, Heavy Metal nº6 and Brazilian Heavy Metal.
His latest album is Ternary M.E.N., published by Fantasy Brand, Henrique Magalhaes. Next to Flavio Calazans and Edgar Franco helped found the magazine publisher Mandala Fantasy brand, dedicated to the publication and study of Neo-Comics. Co-edited with Edgard Guimarães albums: Homo ETERNUS, Convergence, HQ2, Soils, Sacro-Conqueror, among others, and Edgar Franco Siamese Brothers.
Artist in full swing, among which stand out the exhibition "Soul HQ" with 40 works from 16 March to 16 April 2004, in Gibiteca Bigail, São Vicente-SP, and lecture on 6 April at "1 2004 Lectures Cycle, the same city Department of Culture, when spoke about his studies and research" Fanzines and HQ Independent.
Keeps the Net:
http://tesegazy.blogspot.com.br/
https://www.facebook.com/gazy.andraus?fref=ts
EDU MANZANO
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Eduardo Manzano is best known for being part of the artists who have emerged and stood out in the "boom" of alternative comics in Brazil in the 80s, still using the name of Eduardo Manzano, where he expanded his work also to countries such as Italy, Spain, Portugal, France, etc.
It was also one of the creators of the comic movement that would later be named Neo-Comics or HQ's Poetic Philosophical.
A graduate in graphic design, acts as an illustrator for books, advertising market and promotional material for rock bands in Brazil and abroad, in addition to Cartoons and Charges.
Had his work included in the CD "Arming Games" composer Tom Zé.
Helped found the Jupiter 2 (formerly SM Publisher) one of the largest publishers of National Comics, winner of the Trophy Anvil 2008 as best Independent publisher, which publishes some of his comics since 2005, and publish other comic styles in the Brazilian publishing market It has also collaborated in publications like Heroes Almanac, Nickel Nausea, Panacea, Super Interesting, Private, newspaper Metro News, etc ...
Currently signs as Ed Oliver and is also contributor to the magazine World of Super Heroes, winner of two awards HQ MIX and produces material for rock bands and heavy metal abroad.
Keeps the Net:
https://www.facebook.com/edumanzanoart
LAW TISSOT
Law Tissot began acting in the underground scene in November 1984, Law Tissot, Marco Muller and Rodnério Rosa created the Mutation Group of Comics and launched the fanzine Mutation. This publication had the spirit of the time, because independent comics began to proliferate in Brazil.
From this experience it followed on the issue of other securities and also in collaboration with dozens of other fanzines of the period. In the 90 participated in the Cybercomix (the important electronic magazine Terra provider) in addition to continuing working in the underground scene - his great passion.
The comic book side Lord Wolf edited prozine Sand Unfriendly, which had 15 editions and won an HQ MIX. Today is Professor of Visual Arts Alternative School in the city of Rio Grande, RS and produces art collective SECTOR 8, alongside many artists of the scene of urban art, mail art, performances, comics, poetry and interventions in public space .
Law Tissot also made some curtametragens inspired in its main series of HQ, the CYBER CITY.
Keeps the Net:
https://www.facebook.com/lawtissot?fref=ts
http://www.fanzinotecamutacao.blogspot.com
FLAVIO CALAZANS
It is multimedia artist: university professor (University of São Paulo, since 1995), doctor and communication consultant, author of HQ, artist, among other things, and fanzineiro.
As one of the founders of the "Working Group" Humor and Comics' "(Brazilian Congress of Communication Sciences), received great reviews from the national press.
To show their creativity already quite dammed, founded in 1979, the fanzine Barata, one of the most respected and most longevity in circulation in Brasila, and has published his comics in a number of fanzines and magazines in Brazil and abroad.
Published dozens of books, essays and various texts, whose great fruits were several awards. "Subliminal Advertising Media", launched by Summus Editorial, is his most talked about work.
Continues working as a researcher of Comics.
His vast and rich biography is exposed to your site "Midiologia and Art."
Keeps the net:
www.calazans.ppg.br/
dr.Vinicius Alves Oliveira
Researcher and Professor of Science Communication