Categoria: Cangaço

Cangaceira

Authors: Pedro Mauro and Jairo Moreno (illustrations), Matheus Ronn, Mans Reimer, and Luiz Chiaradia (original script)

Pages: 118 (extra content available)

Black and White

Target audience age: adult

Keywords: Cangaço – Betrayal – Redemption – Violence

Synopsis:

Amid the violence of the cangaço and the aridness of the sertão, Rosalina must abandon her old life to embark on a path of vengeance and redemption. In those days, she became known as Mandacaru, the Cangaceira. A story filled with violence, betrayals, and twists! Adapted by Pedro Mauro and Jairo Moreno from the standout screenplay featured in The Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting competition.

 

About Pedro Mauro

With over 50 years of career and continuous production, Pedro Mauro is one of the most popular Brazilian comic book artists of our time. Known for his beautiful women and cinematic action scenes, his works have been published in several languages, and he is a frequent collaborator with Sergio Bonelli Editore. He has also represented Brazil in the anthology “Batman: The World” by DC Comics.

The Immaculate

Authors: Marcello Fontana (script) and Ricardo Cidade (illustrations)

Pages: 64 (extra content available)

Black and White

Target audience age: adult

Keywords: Cangaço – Mystery – Religiosity – Violence

Synopsis: When the last cangaceiros roamed the sertão, amidst ambushes, betrayals, and revenge, the final spoils were collected. In those days, a girl called Imaculada was killed by Caruá’s gang. But she returned from the dead to wander alongside her tormentors. And this could change the entire course of History.

The Man from Canudos

Authors: Wanderley Diniz (script) and Jô Oliveira (illustrations)

Pages: 48 (extra content available, including texts about the history and socio-political context of the cangaço)

Full color

Target audience age: adult

Keywords: Cangaço – Historical Fiction – Violence – Revenge

Synopsis: At the end of the 19th century, the sertão were ravaged by drought, hunger, and violence. After witnessing his family being killed, Pedro finds himself in a sinister spiral of revenge and redemption, until his path crosses with that of Antonio Conselheiro, the “messiah of Canudos.” In those days, “blood would run like a river in the sertão” as the forces of the newly established Republic advanced on Conselheiro and his followers. The Man of Canudos was first published in the 1970s in Italy as part of the Un Uomo / Un’Avventura collection.

At the end of the 19th century, the sertão was ravaged by drought, hunger, and violence. After witnessing his family being killed, Pedro finds himself in a sinister spiral of revenge and redemption, until his path crosses with that of Antonio Conselheiro, the “messiah of Canudos.” In those days, “blood would run like a river in the sertão” as the forces of the newly established Republic advanced on Conselheiro and his followers. “The Man of Canudos” was first published in the 1970s in Italy as part of the Un Uomo / Un’Avventura collection.

At the end of the 19th century, the sertão suffered from drought, hunger, and violence. Pedro, seeking revenge after his family’s death, encounters Antonio Conselheiro, the “messiah of Canudos.” “Blood would run like a river in the sertão” when the new Republic’s forces clashed the messiah’s followers. “The Man of Canudos” was first published in the 1970s as part of the Un Uomo / Un’Avventura collection.

Jô Oliveira’s art exemplifies the popular iconography of Northeast Brazil. The panels of this work reveal what scholarly and penetrating research conceals behind apparent naivety, depicting a significant episode in Brazilian history narrated by someone uniquely qualified to do so.

Hugo Pratt

She-Devil On the Trail of the Cangaceiros

Authors: Ataíde Braz (script) and Flavio Colin (illustrations)

Pages: 32 (extra content available, including texts about the history and socio-political context of the cangaço )

Black and White

Target audience age: adult

Keywords: Cangaço – Supernatural – Crime – Revenge

Synopsis: Forged in the fire of evil, a cursed woman pursues her tormentors in search of revenge in the hinterlands of the 1930s. An enemy that the cangaceiros could not even imagine in their worst nightmares. A work that mixes terror and adventure, fiction and non-fiction, signed by two masters of Brazilian comics.

Winner of the Angelo Agostini and HQMix Awards (Best Comic Book). Flavio Colin, HQMix Award Winner for Best Illustrator.

 

About cangaço

Cangaço was a movement of social banditry that plagued the northeastern region of Brazil from the late 19th century to the early decades of the 20th century. The region, at that time, was ravaged by a historic drought and harbored a population suffering from poverty. The cangaceiros saw banditry as a way to escape poverty and the tyranny of the “coronéis”, powerful landowners who imposed their law across the sertão. The violence, aesthetics, and thorny vegetation of the caatinga – a biome unique to the planet –, complete the exotic scenario that has been fascinating authors in literature, cinema, and comics for decades.

 

About Flavio Colin

Flavio Colin is one of the most important Brazilian comic book artists of all time. As a member of an essentially subversive avant-garde in terms of aesthetics or narrative, Colin was subversive in both aspects, creating a minimalist representation that masks meticulous and detailed work, with an absolutely unique artistic personality.