Artist Focus !!!
Rafael Albquerque
The Brazilian comic book superstar
began his artistic comic career in 2003 after posting his portfolio
of work online. But I myself only recently discovered him once my
love for Scott Snyder's dark and wonderful stories manifested. After
I met Scott at Kapow (which was a fantastic experience) he signed my
hardback edition of American Vampire 1 which I had excitedly
purchased on the day as I kept meaning to read it, after all comic
cons are the best places to buy items from. I swiftly read the book
and immediately fell in love with it, from the splashes of colour and
the gruesome story lines by Scott and Stephen.
Since, I have been manically searching
the internet for as much artwork as I could by the brilliant
Albuquerque's artwork, especially his Batman sketches and prints
(they are phenomenal).
His back-up artwork for “The Fall of
House of Wayne” is brilliant, I love his individuality. I recently
done a sketch and ink of his shouting Martha Wayne which I was quite
pleased of. His artwork is beautiful and oddly different to my usual taste (as my favourite artist is the spectacular Jim Lee closely followed by the ultimate Sara Pichelli who I also met at Kapow in May, and I will also review her art soon too).
One of my favourite pieces by
Albuquerque is his cover of Batman 10 which showed an angry,
grimacing Batman, with a collage of Court of Owl masks shattered and
smashed around his body and cape.
Skinner Sweet's first vampire panel
underwater is also amazing, the tagline “Hello motherfucker! GOT
ANY CANDY!” made this image all the better. The man is a genius
with a pen and ink.
His involvement on American Vampire is
something so beautiful and with Scott Snyder's storytelling it makes
it so compelling.
I've now also got many images of
sketches and prints done by Albuquerque on my iPhone, including many
of the Dark Knight. One print which instantly springs to mind is
Rafael's take on the Joker in the Dark Knight. A bloody Joker wearing
his film attire of purple long tailed jacket, creased waistcoat and
the words “Why So Serious?” scrawled in red below him.
Rafael is someone I definitely look up
to now when I draw, as I mentioned previously I drew his shouting
Martha Wayne panel from Batman 10 earlier this week, and also a
sketch from American Vampire 1.
I hope he remains on American Vampire
for a long time and carries on to feature on Batman's back up stories
as Scott and James are writing some awesome stuff for master Bruce
Wayne! (Also excited for Batman #11 The Conclusion!)
I hope he comes up with the incredible
work, and I definitely look forward to seeing more of his new stuff!
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Jack Corrigan
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