Wild drawings

Studies and Comic Books

Miguel Rocha

20 September -  1 November 2025

As the name implies, this is a disorderly exhibition.

It's not just about showing finished work, finished boards, although there are also them. The goal was to dive into the folders and drawers, the piles scattered on the tables and bring to the surface what the fingers and eyes could reach. With the same savage impetus with which Miguel Rocha wanted to name this moment and throws himself into the work. Hence we have first ideas, rehearsed frameworks to better tell a story, traces free of constraints in the pure plastic exercise, to experiment with the hand, the pen, the density of the papers. Character studies are also aligned, those we see appear and those that could have appeared. There are writings, sometimes. Moments full of humor, because the plots are built in this machination of the imagination of puerile memory with the added wisdom of time. Miguel Rocha shows his drawings as if aligning this story and retelling it with the pleasure of involving the viewer in its construction.

After the revelation of the extraordinary The Queen of Cannibals, published by A Seita, in 2022, its second volume is now also announced...

Miguel Rocha, Lisbon 1968.

In 1998 he started making Comics, he had a very vague idea of what that meant at the time, now with more experience he still prefers to wander. He is the author of several books, both solo and in partnership with screenwriters. Some of the works were distinguished with awards, such as "Madame Eduarda" with Francisco Oliveira based on the text by George Battaille, "Beetroot - Life on a spoon" and "Salazar, now at the time of my death" with João Paulo Cotrim. He was a scholarship holder of the Ministry of Culture during the year 2001 for the realization of the book "Life in a spoon" and in 2019 for "The Queen of the Cannibals". He frequently collaborates as a visual artist and author in theater and editorial projects and is a trainer in comics and graphic arts. He has books and short stories published in Portugal, Spain, France, Italy and Poland. Occasionally, he also prints and binds books.