Rafael Grampá

 

Rafael Grampá is a Brazilian comic book artist and film director, best known for his creator-owned graphic novel Mesmo Delivery and DC Comics' The Dark Knight Returns: The Golden Child.

At the age of 14, Grampá drew flags for Rio Grande do Sul municipalities, made t-shirt prints, store logos and children's party decorations. In 2001, he became art director of RBS TV, a subsidiary of Rede Globo in southern Brazil. In 2004, Grampá moved to São Paulo, where he worked as animation director and concept designer for the animation studio Lobo (Vetor Zero), developing animation films and special effects. In 2007, Grampá decided to leave the field of animation and focus exclusively on comics. In 2008, he published Mesmo Delivery, which won the HQ Mix Awards for Best Artist and Best Special Graphic Novel. That same year, Grampá, along with Gabriel Bá and Fábio Moon, received an Eisner Award for their self-published anthology 5, which marked the first time the award has been presented to Brazilian comic book artists.

Since then, Grampá's wrote and drew a number of short stories for Marvel and DC Comics, such as "Dear Logan", which appeared in the Strange Tales II anthology series, and a Batman story for the Batman: Black and White series .Grampá has also directed several short films, including Dark Noir (2014), an animated film sponsored by Absolut Vodka and released simultaneously in 21 countries, and Romeo Reboot (2015), a live-action film inspired by Shakespeare's classic story. In 2017, Grampá and his partners started Headquarters, a content development studio and production company, where Grampá directed the live-action film A Geek Punk Story. Grampá other credits include The Dark Knight Returns: The Golden Child, a sequel to the 1986 DC Comics mini-series The Dark Knight Returns, written by Frank Miller.