Last year I was contacted by the guys of SAPO to make something for Comic-Con Portugal, they were looking for some way of make publicity in the festival but in a form that would feel right to be there.
So we ended doing a short comic book telling the story of the creator of the company but I had the freedom to tell it the way I would like it. So instead of a normal biographic comic book, I decided to add classic comic book and pop culture elements in the story. little Easter eggs that we the "geeks & nerds" would spot. For example starting with the cover being inspired in the Giant Size X-Men or the first page, that is an homage to Alan Moore Superman story "Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?"
STORY & ART(and everything) by Henrique Valadas
So we ended doing a short comic book telling the story of the creator of the company but I had the freedom to tell it the way I would like it. So instead of a normal biographic comic book, I decided to add classic comic book and pop culture elements in the story. little Easter eggs that we the "geeks & nerds" would spot. For example starting with the cover being inspired in the Giant Size X-Men or the first page, that is an homage to Alan Moore Superman story "Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?"
STORY & ART(and everything) by Henrique Valadas
ink over pencils & digital colors over inks
rough pencils layout - inks of pencils - digital color over inks
And because we were telling the story of the first major company working to catalogue the internet in Portugal(and in the world as we learn after reading the comic), the comic book had to have some kind of technology in it. So in the last page there is a QR Code that gives you access to the last to pages of the comic on-line (you can scan the QR Code, click here or just scroll down).
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