La historia avanza...

En 1999 publiqué mi primer comic, El Angel Negro, en Montevideo. No voy a decir que fué un éxito rotundo pero por lo menos abrió una puerta, la dela auto publicación, que gracias al cielo aún hoy sigue abierta. Han pasado muchos años, y tanto la inquietud como el cariño por el personaje me hacen volver a él, pero no al mismo exactamente. Hay un nuevo personaje, una nueva historia, un nuevo tono, todo nuevo. Lo voy desarrollando, pero por ahora me gusta mucho lo que viene saliendo. A medida que vaya avanzando iré actualizando.

Mientras tanto, si quieren leer la última historia que hice del Angel original pueden ir ACA y descargarla en formato cbr para leerla. Es gratis, y si les gusta agradezco comentarios.

Más novedades pronto.

©1999/2013 Lisandro Di Pasquale para todas las imágenes.

©Brainstorm producciones. Todos los derechos reservados.

News about HTSWR.

Here we go. I leave you with a sneek peek of the upcoming issue of HOW TO SURVIVE WORKING IN RETAIL, this time it´s #9. More news coming soon. Cheers!

The whole issue in thumbnail form. Part 1

The whole issue in thumbnail form. Part 2

October update.

I just got back to work after two days off. Man, working sucks! I can spend almost 3 days, locked in my house, just working in my pages and my comic book related projects without any human contact at all. I only see my family when we eat, and then it´s every man for himself. I don´t need to go outside, hell, I don´t like to go out, I just want to stay in my room, drawing, inking, working on my art. That´s all I ask, why can´t it be like that all the time? --oh...yeah, because comics don´t pay shit-- fuck...

Anyway, here´s a peek of what comes out of those labor intensive days. Make sure to look out for it.

Se abre un nuevo Blog.

Estoy muy contento de anunciarles que hace unos días está en línea mi nuevo blog. se llama CREANDO COMICS: Un Viaje por la Narrativa Visual y se trata de comics (DUH!) y su autores. Planeo ir posteando notas y entrevistas a varios creadores del medio sobre como son sus procesos a la hora de crear una historieta.

Lejos de tener un tinte histórico sobre la historia del medio a lo que se apunta es a brindar insumos a aquellos nuevos futuros autores que buscan un poco de ayuda o una mano amiga que los guíe en el proceso de aprender un poco más sobre como se hace una historieta. En primera instancia las entrevistas y el contenido está abocado a los dibujantes y sus métodos, no descarto que en algún momento se pueda hacer inclusión de algún guionista ya que son tan importantes en el proceso como los dibujantes. Es solo que mi estatus de artista me hace decantarme por mis pares.

Espero que puedan visitarlo de vez en cuando, está todo hecho en español (con la ocasional palabrita en inglés) y dejen cualquier comentario o duda o sugerencia. El espacio ya esta abierto, la propuesta hecha y el material se va a ir acumulando de a poco. Tengan paciencia ya que aún está todo bajo construcción.

Hay un link en la barra del costado y otro acá arriba.

Repartan la voz, y ojalá les sirva y les guste.

The book about JIM LEE is ready.

Very well, the book on Jim Lee’s work is finished and one thing I neglected to mention earlier is that is all in English. Don’t ask me why, my head it’s just wired to think in English, so everything comes easier that way.

All corrections have been made, so keep this in mind, if you spot something wrong now, you can’t imagine how it looked before. Thing is; I always seem to miss some words while I’m writing them, and those mistakes or typos are corrected by whoever is making the work of a proof reader. In this case I didn’t have one, so I had to actually wait until I saw a printed copy to spot all the things that went awry. I also changed its name to Jim Lee: a sketchbook project for two reasons; a) because it really was just a project, and b) to make it sound less pretentious (some idiot tries to tell me that everything I do it´s incredibly pretentious, while all he does is sit down and scratch his sorry ass…dick).


There were a lot of images that needed to be replaced because the program doesn’t save the actual image on the project, so if you move either the working file or the image that link gets broken, which leaves you with a faulty image and when you print it, it looks like shit. This program (Quarkxpress) it’s pretty easy to use, but there is only so much you can do when all the reference you have next to you is the manual. Sometimes I had to make things time and time again to achieve what I was going for, try that for “trial & error”.


I have to say that coming up with a whole book it’s not an easy task, especially when you are doing it without previous knowledge, I couldn’t figure out how to number the pages for instance, or how to wrap text around some images, but hey, I did the best my limited knowledge allowed me to.

For the future book I’m working on I hope to count with the assistance of a proper designer, I have the whole look for it right in my head, but I don’t want to risk it. Hopefully I will be working with a publisher and the right people to do what I can’t do for myself. This next project has me really excited about it, work it’s already in progress and seems to be having a very positive response from those involved in it. This Jim Lee book was completed from conception to last edit in about two weeks, I’m certain that because we have a lot more time to work on it the next one will be simply awesome.


Now my dear friends, feel free to get this book from HERE, but remember: whatever you do with it it’s you own responsibility, it was never intended for sale, you can print it, you can share it, all I ask for is credit where credit is due and for you to keep me out of trouble.

Thanks to all for their kind words in Facebook and the support of anyone involved in one way or another. There are BIG THINGS in the works for 2012 (if the end of the world allows them to happen) so stay tuned. Like I always say…more to come.

P.S: there’s one thing that is missing, and that is a dedication, so here goes a palliative:

“I always pictured dedicating my first book to my kids and my beloved wife for all their love and support. Since I don’t have neither of them I plan to save that dedication for the future. Right now I feel that dedicating something like this to someone who doesn’t appreciate comics in the least will be a waste of space and time, so It won’t be dedicated to my mum either. But I will thank her for the mates she gave me while I was working… gracias vieja.”

This is what I do when I get bored.

It turns out that I´m planning on writing a book about comic book artists and their methods of work, and because I´m used to be a one-man-show I´m assuming that it´s gonna be me the one that it´s going to end up suffering while designing the whole book. With that in mind I´m diving head first into a new program to design books. Maybe some of you have heard of it , I´m talking about Quarkxpress.

In order to start figuring out how it works and what it can do with it I took it upon myself to create some sort of template of what I want my book to look like, so I grabbed a folder I have filled up with hundreds of drawings made by Jim Lee and decided to put some of them together as a hefty sketchbook.


I plan to have this book completed soon enough, I mean, it´s just compiling the images and writing the occasional text to go with them. How long can it take?

Truth is, I should be doing some stuff for school instead, but fuck that, passion comes first, and if there is something I´m passionate about it´s comics. Fuck school!

Anyhow, there you have the cover of the sketchbook and HERE a chapter as a preview. All this is made just for fun, it´s not going to be for sale or anything, it´s just to get in the mood for when the time comes to work on MY BOOK, a book that is going to be called "Creating comics: a visual journey" and if all the artists involved return the interviews at any time, my co-writer Lord Magnus and I are gonna get cracking with it.

Until then...see ya!