Mirror, a Glow in the Dark Original short graphic-novel on Webtoons!

We are super proud to announce our story Mirror as a competitor in the Webtoons Short Story contest. Mirror is a Glow in the Dark Concept Studio original, that tells a horror-fantasy story in 3 chapters, full of rhymes and style surprises.

“A mirror opens a door,

a door to another world.

One where I can forget where I came from-

and won’t remember where I go.”

- Mirror- Glow in the Dark Concept Studio.

Interested??? Read it for free here on Webtoons !!

Quarantine.. and quaran-tiny Art!!!

While this virus is spreading around, we decided at the studio to play it safe and work from home to protect us and our loved ones. It’s been a hard adjustment.. but if we all do it will go away soon! So keeping it positive! After all… working from home is not that awful!

And while it’s been an adjustment, for sure!!! We also decided to keep being creative: comfortable and “semi-operational” work-from-home-station, lots of tea and coffee, adjusting to a new work flow.. and well staying creative on social media! We started an initiative on our Instagram: #quarantips where our #creativeblips
give some tips to stay sane and creative! The idea is promote a fun dialog with our followers and make everybody feel “we are together on this!”.

But with the ones we resonate the most are with the kids…! The ones who we rite our stories for. Can’t imagine what is it to be little, not really understanding and feeling trapped. So we thought.. we had to do something about it!!! And here is how our #QuaranTinyArt started!!! We decided to create little pieces of lifework-art for the “little-and not so little- ones in the house” and immediately our Pirateers (of course!) sparked that initiative! So from now on, till we are back to the office we will post line-art-activities free to print for anybody that needs to brighten up their day.. or just to be entertained!

This Pirateers Crossword puzzle, to dress-me up color-me activities are just a sneak peak of the fun activities we are preparing at the studio to help stem your boredom!!!

We created a very handy Linktree where you both download these activities now and start coloring, but also see additional pages as we‘ll be updating weekly! Make sure you click on the first tab!

Hope you like it!! And please if you know people with little ones… let them know about it!!!! Stay creative and busy!!

Something different feels like a fresh breeze of air!

Finally, it’s out and published a small piece Katia worked for “Literature for Life”. The assignment consisted on illustrating a short fictional story from Vivian McInerny.

Katia: “ I really loved the dark and decadent tone of the piece and talked about a topic that is very relevant and close to my heart: Emotional Orphans and Unappealing Children. The text is been given in several highschool classes to read as a discussion topic and I am very happy and proud to be able to help on such a matter! As an artist, the ending really appealed to me, I wanted even if it was a hard reality to have a bit of “strange hope” kind of a feeling, so I chose neon-bright colors and I tried to give it a peaceful atmosphere for the privacy of the characters. I hope you like it!”

Please read here the story: https://locavorelitla.org/?story=the-home-for-emotional-orphans-and-unappealing-children

Diferente!

Here Linkedin Article.

Really excited to share the news that Katia Grifols (our mastermind at the studio) is part of this amazing rooster of Spanish Artists united for a wonderful cause: the creation of  Diferente, a co-illustrated comic written by ILEsucero and sponsored by Dibujos Por Sonrisas.  The project it’s been crafted in a disinterested way, since the benefits of this comic will be used in the campaigns that the organization Dibujos Por Sonrisas carries out to dignify the lives of refugees.

Diferente will be presented during the next Comic Barcelona 2019, and besides acquiring it right there, you will soon have it in all the bookstores.

Diferente tells the story of Jana, a young woman whom one day discovers that the world around her changes in appearance at every moment. To visualize these changes in the reality of Jana, each page of  Diferente  - sometimes even each vignette - is drawn by a different artist. A   narrative tour de force that moves between fantasy and thriller showcasing the journey of self-discovery and self-improvement.

We really hope the best for such a wonderful project!!!

Month of Books!!

Here some cool news! Finally, two of our very early projects here at the studio has seen the light this month!

Please let me introduce you "Cosas que pasan cuando llevas vida de Artista". This book was started by Katia Grifols, the year before she decided to start Glow in the Dark, so in essence was the book that started everything! It's an autobiography of how those terrible moments in life can bring you the best moments as well. A book that was painful and very rewarding at the same time, very honest and has a sense of humor. This book was sold to Planeta (Spain) about a year and a half ago out of a Pitch at the Salo del comic de Barcelona. 

The next book we are very excited to be part of is "Yeguas".  A book published by Ediciones Invisible that collects amazingly inspiring quotes by great feminas illustrated by amazingly talented feminas, where Katia Grifols was selected to be part of.  Katia was given the assignment to illustrate Roxane Gay's quote and she was very excited given she really admires her work and personality.