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The artist
Alejandro Gutiérrez lives in México City and works as a free lance illustrator and comics artist.
Background
Professional education: A degree in Graphic Design at Simón Bolivar University, México City. (1985-1989).
Traditional art training: Graphite and colored pencils, markers, Acrylics, oils, airbrush, watercolor and pastels. (1984 to date).
Digital training: Photoshop, Painter, Illustrator, Strata, Bryce for illustration work; Quarkxpress, Indesign for Desktop publishing; Dreamweaver for web design. Macintosh environment. (1994 to date).
When Alejandro was finishing his professional studies, at the Simón Bolivar University, in México City, he decided to make a comics project as the thesis work, to obtain a degree in graphic design. The project focused at the use of graphic design methodology applied to the narrative structure of a comic story. After some years of hard work, the project was finished and a 10 page story was made to probe the metodology used was correct.
That story, called Signos Efímeros en la Eternidad, (Ephemeral Signs In Eternity) was a short autoconclusive comic with mythological theme. The pages were rendered with an airbrush using black oil paint, and then enhaced with graphite pencil and markers. The story was then published by Golem, a Mexican alternative art magazine.
Two years later, Signos Efímeros was reprinted in Gallito Comics, a Mexican indie anthological comics magazine. Alejandro made several stories for this magazine, the only source for independent comics creators in México in those days. Alejandro developed a particular technique for doing his black and white pages: First, a pencil drawing was finished at 150 % of the final print size; then it was photocopied at a smaller size, with most of the line work already reproduced; some extra inking was done and finally the computer lettering added. Gallito Comics also published works of other mexican creators like Clément, Quintero, Peláez, and also many South American end European ones, like Trillo, Giménez, Meglia and Chichoni. In the following years, This magazine published plenty of Alejandro's digital paintings as covers.
After that, it was time to publish a full color comic. The magazine Comunicando/Graficando, a comics anthology for creators from local colleges, picked up a 4 page story from Alejandro: Mitos (Myths). The drawings were scanned and rendered in Photoshop 2.5, using a Power Mac 6100.
The next step was to enter the international market. Radio Comix, an indie comics publisher from Texas reprinted almost all of Alejandro's comics in their Milk! anthology. Two of the digital color illustrations were used as covers too.
Some time later, Alejandro published two of his stories, The Little Wild Hood In The Red Wolf and The Forest of Mysterious Delights in Beamable.com, a company that offered digital comics for PDAs and similar portable devices.
Publications
Comic book/magazine Covers:
Gallito Comics anthology from México (1995-2000)
Comunicando-Graficando anthology from México (1997)
Acme comics anthology from Colombia (1997)
Milk! anthology from United States (2002)
Generación cultural magazine from México (2003)
Comics stories published in:
Golem anthology from México (1992)
Comunicando-graficando anthology from México (1996-1999)
Gallito Comics anthology from México (1994-2000)
Milk! anthology from Radio Comix United States (1998-2003)
Beamable.com online comics for PDAs (2003-2004)
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Contact info: alex-peyotero@excite.com All artwork and stories contained here is copyright ©1997- 2007 Alejandro Gutiérrez Franco. The use of any image without written permission is forbidden.
