Marco S. Teixeira

My name is Marco Teixeira and I am a traveller, an artist and a storyteller. I write and I illustrate that which no one else can do for me; all the thoughts and ideas swirling in my head, all of my interpretations. I was born in Portugal in 1981 where I completed, what was at the time, the minimum scholarship. I have interest still in all sorts of learning as well as all sorts of physical activities. In anything that can be considered improvement. Currently I am living in Sweden, been doing so since 2009. I came here in search of opportunity.

Having grown throughout the 80's I was, of course, heavily influenced by all the animations at the time and this is very visible in every character's depiction. They tend to look ( for the most part) very comic-like, almost superhero-like at times and even though the narrative will support why such a depiction, I still have to admit my fondness for all those great works that so motivated me in my youth.
As for the backgrounds, I have always loved the pre-rendered works found later in certain types of videogames and how the characters roaming through those incredible backdrops never [obviously] felt like they actually belonged. I love the absurd quality of some of them and I love that difference, as unintentional as it was, between the "world in the back" and "people in front of it" and so here we are...

Writing influences?
I am a big fan of the pulps, namely those flashy sci-fi's; all the way from their birth until the early 80's where, to me personally, that is when they died off and although I consider myself quite a versatile reader, that is where my heart lies. That pulp style, that on the move, go-go-go type of story telling where anything goes... the untried and the uncertain . So as aforementioned, despite this being a narrative with close to 300 thousand words, it is still quite light. Any possible reader may rest assured that this is an assembly of words much closer in style to say Burroughs than Joyce. I did attempt also, at times, to go for something different, that untried and uncertain; to strive for some new things, to take a few risks of my own when it comes to story teling. A few made it all the way to the end while others, regrettably did not. Ultimately, this is quite the "meaty" experience but it is also a very "pulpy" one in its nature and should be considered as such.