{"id":565,"date":"2009-09-20T22:41:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-21T03:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/2009\/09\/rio-de-janeiro-book-fair\/"},"modified":"2009-09-20T22:41:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-21T03:41:00","slug":"rio-de-janeiro-book-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/?p=565","title":{"rendered":"Rio de Janeiro Book Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m going to make this quick and comics-related. Everyone at the fair, Companhia, and the US Consulate was nice and treated me much better than I deserve to be treated. I can\u2019t figure out a good USA reference for this book fair. It\u2019s sort of like the San Diego Comic-Con, only all books and \u201cnormal\u201d people (lots of families.) It took place in three large boxes. This first photo of the exterior looks like a Tom K<\/a> panel:<\/p>\n

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The standard comic size in Brazil is smaller and a slightly different ratio.<\/p>\n

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Andre told me you can chart the Brazilian economy of the 80s and 90s by looking at the cover price fluctuations of Akira<\/em>, since it was being serialized through that time.
Andre\u2019s father edits this magazine, Piaui<\/em> , and in the latest issue they ran an excerpt of Crumb\u2019s Genesis<\/em>. The magazine is huge (about 11 by 14 inches) and on great paper and the excerpt looks totally amazing in it. I\u2019m psyched for that book.<\/p>\n

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I was on a panel with the twins Fabio Moon and Gabriel Ba<\/a> where I was asked how to increase literacy among Brazilian youth.<\/p>\n

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Later that day the fair threw a party and I was told it was taking place in a park so I just wore a t-shirt. It turned out it was in a mansion in a park. Snoop Dogg filmed this music video <\/a>(3:53) there. I told a prose novelist I was feeling underdressed and he said: \u201cDon\u2019t worry. You\u2019re a graphic novelist. It works.\u201d Ha! True story.<\/p>\n

Okay, here are some more scans of things I acquired. This first artist, Lourenco Mutarelli<\/a>, I hung out with a little bit. He does great sketchbooks filled with gorgeous, raunchy drawings. I hope that those are eventually published or put online or become available somehow.<\/p>\n

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These are random other things:<\/p>\n

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I went to Rafael Grampa<\/a>\u2019s studio in an ex-beauty salon in Sao Paulo but I don\u2019t have any good photos of it. Rafael\u2019s working on a series that Dark Horse is publishing in 2010 titled Furry Water <\/em>and I flipped through some originals and it\u2019s crazy. His personality can be felt in his drawings. They\u2019re aggressive, funny and full of life. Dude can draw.<\/p>\n

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Now Comics Comics <\/em>may return to more thoughtful posting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m going to make this quick and comics-related. Everyone at the fair, Companhia, and the US Consulate was nice and treated me much better than I deserve to be treated. I can\u2019t figure out a good USA reference for this book fair. It\u2019s sort of like the San Diego Comic-Con, only all books and \u201cnormal\u201d people (lots of families.) It took place in three large boxes. This first photo of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1371],"class_list":["post-565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-wild-on"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}