More pages from Alpha: Big Time #3

Alpha: Big Time 3 Preview!

Cover by Humberto Ramos, Written by Joshua Hale Fialkov, with full art by me.

                                                    

Alpha: Big Time 2 pages

Some random pages from Alpha: Big Time 2 .

Alpha Big Time 2 teaser panels

Some random teaser panels from Alpha 2 in bw and in color.

   

Alpha Big Time 2 in stores everywhere!

Written by Joshua Hale Fialkov
Art by me
Cover by Humberto Ramos.

Alpha Big time 1 panel, bw to color comparison.

Alpha Big Time 1 panels.

Two panels from issue 1 of Alpha Big Time 1 in bw and in color, coming out on the 20th of February, written by Joshua Fialkov, with full art by me. 

Alpha Big Time 1 preview.

Here´s a link to a preview of some lettered pages from Alpha Big Time 1, written by the awesome Joshua Fialkov and with art by me. The first issue of a five issue mini series comes out on the 20th of February.
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=preview&id=15266




And here´s a few pages without lettering that have shown up before in previews, interviews and that sort of thing.

                                                                 

Mia, Tales from the Lost islands, page 9

Mia, Tales from the Lost Islands page 8 in color.

Mia, Tales from the lost Islands, page 7 in color.

Mia, Tales from the Lost Islands prologue tweak.

So, i decided to tweak the colors and the lines of these older pages from the prologue of my creator owned project. I followed the less is more theory, and i´ve simplified the colors and removed most of the highlights, rim lights, glows and noise to  For a bigger vave the pages clearer and let the line drawing do more of the talking this time. They´re probably less moody, but i think they´re much sharper looking right now. And since the newer pages i´m working on right now, are also following this logic, i think in the end everything will gel a bit better. For a bigger sized view go here.

http://nunoplati.deviantart.com/?loggedin=1#/d5bb7hw

Amazing Spider man #692 preview!

Double spread from the upcoming Amazing Spider Man 692, which celebrates Amazing Spider man 50th anniversary. I had the good fortune of working on one of the stories in the book. A 22 pager, written by the wonderful Joshua Fialkov and with full art by me. There´s an interview here with more details.


http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=40108

Some pages from Marvel Universe: Ultimate Spider Man 4. Out now!!!

Special thanks, as always to my mega talented buddy Ricardo Venâncio for the help doing the color flats.

Some pages from Marvel Universe: Ultimate Spider Man 3.

Some pages from Marvel Universe: Ultimate Spider Man 3.  Out now! :)

Mia, Tales from the Lost Islands project.

Anyone that has checked my blog before, might have noticed a few illustrations related to something called "Mia, Tales from the Lost Islands".
 This is one of my personal projects, and hopefully my first foray into the creator owned world.
I started thinking about it more seriously a few years ago, when i got in touch with the "Popgun Anthology" editors with the goal of maybe being able to participate in one of it´s volumes. Unfortunately, it never came to pass, mainly due to me not being able to juggle the Marvel Comics work that was at my drawing table with extra work. But a spark had been lit, and all my dreams of doing an all ages, fun, adventure comic book channeling my childhood influences of "Future boy Conan", "The Mysterious Cities of Gold", and bits of Tintin, Spirou and many other childhood heroes were now fully in motion. I got in touch with my buddy João Lemos to flesh out what was a very vague concept, into something more, an actual project that could stand on it´s own.
 So, along with the fleshing out of the story, i did a test run of of 5 pages to show the tone and look of what i was going for.

You can check that effort here:
http://nunoplati.blogspot.pt/2010/07/near-future.html

To make a long story short, i continued alongside João, developing the project. I did conceptual illustrations, to show some of the character designs, and the overall feel of the books, and also did a 5 page prologue to kickstart the actual pages from the first book.
 The question now could be, why isn´t the project on the stands yet, since i started it a couple of years ago?
 The answer is that, it is very, very hard to work on a creator owned book, especially if you don´t have a publisher. I did pitch the project at New York Comicon for the last couple of years, and we actually got a quite a few publishers interested in publishing it, going as far as discussing contracts and a publishing schedule with one of them.
 The problem is that it is almost impossible to work on something like this full time, while not getting a page rate or anything for months and months, and then just hope for the best , and wish upon a star that people will like it and will support it, and in a way provide me with an income so the books would keep being published. But as everyone knows the comics market is very difficult, be it American or European, because besides the obvious question of whether the book has merit and quality to be published to begin with, there´s a lot of things Publishers have to ponder before investing on a new project.
 Now that i´ve contextualized the work i´m posting the Concept Art and the never before seen Prologue, as well as a few pages of things to hopefully come.
 I finish, by humbly asking for advice on what is the best way to move the project forward. I would welcome and really appreciate Editors, Publishers, fellow Artists, and non artists advice and input on what routes i should take to make Mia, a reality.

Contact me at nunoplati@gmail.com

Many thanks

Nuno

Interview for Marvel Animation Age!

I had the opportunity to be interviewed by the very cool James Harvey from Worlds Finest and Marvel Animation Age websites.

http://marvel.toonzone.net/news.php?action=fullnews&id=839

Amazing Spider Man 692 in August!

Coming out this august, in Amazing Spider Man 692, alongside the main story by the Stellar Dan Slott and the mega talented Humberto Ramos , two original 22 page one shot stories, one by the awesome Dean Haspiel and another one written by the Uber talented Joshua Fialkov with full art by yours truly. :)

Cover by Humberto Ramos

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #692
DAN SLOTT (w) • HUMBERTO RAMOS (a/C)
Spider-Man Decades variant covers by Marcos Martin• Special 50TH Anniversary Issue!
• Join us for a once in a lifetime event: the one, true 50th Anniversary Issue of the Amazing Spider-Man.
• A special over-sized issue harkening back to the legend the legend that started it all! Get ready for an all-new tale about a different kind of power and responsibility...
• Plus original stories by Dean Haspiel, Joshua Hale Fialkov and Nuno Plati!
64 PGS. all-new content/Rated T ...$5.99

Another Marvel Universe Ultimate Spider man 2 page

Marvel Universe: Ultimate Spider man 2 pages in BW and color!

Some pages from my story in issue 2 of Marvel Universe: Ultimate Spider man 2. :)

 Written by Jacob Semahn with full art by me. :)

I also had the good fortune of having one of my panels picked by IFanboy as a" Panel of the week"!

Here´s the link

http://ifanboy.com/articles/the-best-of-the-week-in-panels-05-23-2012/