André Coelho, Manuel João Neto - Terminal Tower (EN)

Terminal Tower was created through a collaborative process between the artist and the writer that stepped outside the usual logic of comics—where a script is typically adapted into sequential drawings.

Instead, the ideas for the book were developed simultaneously by both authors, starting from the premise of a man isolated in a tower on high alert. From that tower setting, Coelho began creating drawings that sparked narrative ideas, which in turn led to more drawings, each feeding the ambiguities of the surrounding story in a kind of creative spiral. The central idea of the book is a paranoia-triggered delirium, leaving the reader unsure whether the activation of the tower's mechanisms is real or exists only in the mind of the isolated man—since nothing seems to work, and everything feels like a ruin from the future. The story weaves in decadent references to the worlds of Enki Bilal, J.G. Ballard (1930–2009), and Industrial music—not surprisingly, as both authors are involved in that musical genre through their project Sektor 304.