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He has been dedicating most of his waking hours to comics. When everything goes well, comics invade his dreams too. A Lisbon-based comics scholar, holding a PhD degree in Comparative Literature from KUL, Leuven, and FLUL, Lisbon, his latest book-length academic projects include the edited volumes the Le Cas Manouach, Bande dessinée conceptuelle - détournement, appropriation, art synthétique, Intelligence Artificielle et distribué (La 5e Couche/Presses Universitaires de Liège, 2026) and Ilan Manouach in Review (Routledge, 2023), the monographs Fazer Isto & Asignar (on the “Father of Portuguese comics” Bordalo Pinheiro, in Portuguese; Museu Bordalo Pinheiro, 2023), and Visualing Small Traumas (Leuven University Press, 2022), and has authored dozens of articles. He has been teaching history, theory and scriptwriting for comics, illustration and animation since 2003 in several Portuguese higher education institutions and also had some international experience. He is the coordinator of the upcoming graduate course in Comics and Graphic Novels in ESAP, Porto. As a critic, he has been writing serious criticism, on the broadest possible choice of global comics, on both his Portuguese-language blog Lerbd and the English-language Yellow Fast & Crumble, not to mention collaborations with dozens of international platforms, both print and online. As a comics writer, he has published numerous short stories, online strips and graphic novels. For the past 8 years, he has provided the social solidarity magazine Cais with two-page comics monthly, in collaboration with almost 100 artists, from Portugal, Brazil and elsewhere. His latest and larger published efforts include literary adaptations, such as Fernando Pessoa’s Mensagem (Message) and The Book of Disquiet, with artist Susa Monteiro and Bernardo Majer, and Camões’ Os Lusíadas (The Lusiads), with multiple artists. An upcoming 200-plus pages project with Marta Teives will be a historical fiction graphic novel about Portugal’s Jewish heritage and World War II refugees. He has also worked as a scriptwriter for animation, musical theater, opera, cinema, contemporary dance, and as a few published literary pieces, like poems and short stories. Within the area of comics, he has been also very active as a translator, editor, tv documentarian, podcaster, bookstore/gallery owner, and, more importantly, curator, including the major 2011 Tinta nos Nervos exhibition at the Museu Colecção Berardo, Lisbon, and the past 4 years with Flexágono, within the Fólio Literay Festival, in Óbidos.

pic. Edmond Baudoin