The Doors comics!

About The Doors comics and artistical influences

How did The Doors comics started?

One day discussing The Doors LA Woman album on The Doors forum I came up with a joke that gave me the idea for a funny comic. I showed it there and people seemed to like it, I did a second one and soon I was drawing a series of them and I decided to make a whole website dedicated to The Doors comic stories (it looked like this). I would be posting comic strips weekly like other cartoonists were (and still are) making, all influenced by Scott McCloud´s concept of 'webcomics' or 'online comics' like some people call it.

Some of these Doors comics are true stories but most of it are facts mixed with Doors myths and my personal fantasy. Last year I had the pleasure to get in contact with Leon Barnard and we did 2 comics together. Johnny Echols from Love was around two and he gave me permission to adapt one of his stories from Ed, The Freedom Man´s site. You can see all that in the archive. And now I have a comic done with Vince Treanor how to be a band boy.

I became a Doors fan in 1994. A friend of mine in highschool was a "hardcore fan" he was the singer of a Doors cover band. One day we were hanging out in a friend´s house and he was using a T-shirt with Jim´s face in it and I asked "who is this guy?" and he said “This is Jim Morrison and we´re going to smoke a joint in his homage now! ” haha! Later he lent me some Doors LP’s and from then on I became a Doors fan myself.

Influences

The guys that had most influence for me were - just from top of my head now, they are many! - well, I should start with Will Eisner (a grand master of our comtemporary comics), underground cartoonists from the sixties and seventies like Robert Crumb (creator of Zap comix), Gilbert Shelton (the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers), Harvey Pekar - creator of American Splendor (I love his comics!), the classical Tales from the Crypt and Mad magazine (it´s a well known fact that Jim Morrison used read it in his teenage years) , both had great artists such as Jack Davis and Harvey Kurtzman.

More recently: Daniel Clowes, Richard Sala and Joe Sacco. From Europe: Hugo Pratt, Milo Manara and Moebius. The best brasilian cortoonists for me are Laerte, Lourenço Mutarelli and Flávio Colin, among many others...

There are also some 19th century´s geniuses like Honoré Daumier from France (the father of modern caricature) and Angelo Agostini in Brasil. Well, the list goes on and on...

I suggest that you go through these links and read some of these artist´s comics. There are some real good stuff out there.

About me

I do comics since a very young age (born in 1978 in Sao Paulo, Brasil). My father is an illustrator and as a kid I used to sit beside him while he was working thinking it was some kind of magic! I sure had to try it...

After a long time reading and doing my comics I´ve graduated in Fine Arts at UNESP (Sao Paulo State University).

While in college I´ve done a huge research about the history of caricature, a very exciting theme for me. My main subject in this research was the caricatures of brasilian artist from the 19th century Pedro Americo and also the brasilian caricaturists of the time - the 1870´s. My conclusion work was about the history of comics, from the 19th century artists (as I mentioned) to today´s webcomics, so I also could make a reflection of my The Doors comics experience too, which was great.