Founded by the artist Rafael Albuquerque

Rafael Albuquerque

Rafael Albuquerque is a Brazilian comic book creator primarily for his artwork on books such as DC Comics' Blue Beetle and American Vampire. Though primarily a penciler and inker of interior comic art, he has also done work as a cover artist, colorist and writer.-Career:Albuquerque begun his...

, PopArt Comics strives to work for foreign publishers, dealing with well-established characters and developing stories that are, not only, reader-friendly and very entertaining, but also the customer's satisfaction, through market share analysis and focusing on the desirable target audience.

With its HQ based on Porto Alegre

Porto Alegre

Porto Alegre is the tenth most populous municipality in Brazil, with 1,409,939 inhabitants, and the centre of Brazil's fourth largest metropolitan area . It is also the capital city of the southernmost Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. The city is the southernmost capital city of a Brazilian...

 (Southern Brazil

Brazil

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), the studio is blessed with the luck of having collaborators from all over the country, which bring a handful of styles and influences that make possible to always match the most appropriate drawing style with a given job. The main team is eclectic in its own way too, which always brings new opportunities to the company such as providing material for AK Comics

AK Comics

AK Comics is an Egyptian-based superhero comic publishing venture, and the first large scale production of the genre in the Middle East. The company was founded by Dr...

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Albuquerque, 24 years old, says he was contacted about two years ago by the founder of the AK Comics, Ayman Kandeel, who was interested by the work exhibited in the artist's personal website. "It was my first professional experience abroad," said the drawing artist, who has worked with comic books for five years.

The studio PopArt itself was founded in the beginning of 2005, but since the beginning the Brazilians have been working in the publications. Each one of the four heroes has his own monthly magazine, published in English

English language

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 and Arabic and distributed in the Arab world, Europe

Europe

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, and soon regularly in the United States

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According to Albuquerque, the studio has the capacity for the entire process of a comic book, from the idea to the final art and colouring on the computer. However, they also outsource. Currently there are artists from the states of Ceará (Northeast of Brazil) and São Paulo

São Paulo

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 (Southeast) collaborating with the company. The production of a comic book takes in average 30 days.

Today the PopArt team is responsible for the magazines Aya and Jalila, but has already worked with all the AK Comics characters. Although the heroes were created by the Egyptian publishing house, the Brazilians contributed to the increase of supporting characters. The ChessMaster

Chessmaster

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, who is today Rakan's archenemy, was created by the Brazil

Brazil

Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

ian artists.

Currently PopArt is working on Savage Brothers, Jeremiah Harm, Pirate and Ninja Tales and Two Guns, all these for the publisher Boom!Studios Entertainment, and Rafael Albuquerque recently signed with DC Comics, as the regular Blue Beetle artist.