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Gabriel Bá

  Gabriel Bá was born on June 5, 1976. He is a Brazilian comic book artist best known for his work on "The Umbrella Academy," "Casanova," and "Daytripper." He is the twin brother of fellow comic artist Fábio Moon. Gabriel Bá has been writing comics for almost 15 years and has been published in France, Italy, Spain, the United States and Brazil. He began self-publishing comics with his brother in 1993. Their first miniseries, "Sunflower and the Moon," from 1997, was released by a Brazilian publisher as a graphic novel in 2000. They first published in the United States in 1999, with the miniseries ROLAND - days of anger, written and self-published by Shane Amaya. In the United States they have contributed to Dark Horse's “Autobiographix” anthology, published in 2003, along with comics greats like Frank Miller and Will Eisner. Their independent comic "ROCK'n'ROLL" was picked up by "Image Comics" and published in November 2005. In 2006, they launched De:TALES with Dark Horse, chosen by Booklist as one of the top 10 graphic novels of that year and Nominated for an Eisner Award for Best US Edition of International Material. Bá was the artist for Matt Fraction's Casanova, published by Image Comics. In 2007, Bá worked on “The Umbrella Academy” with writer Gerard Way, which is being published by Dark Horse, with his brother Fábio Moon taking over the art at Casanova. In 2008, Bá self-published “PIXU”, an anthology of horror comics, with Fabio Moon, Becky Cloonan and Vasilis Lolos.