Categoria: Violence

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.

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Thunder on the Black River

Authors: Marcello Fontana (script) and Bruno Bull (illustrations)

Pages: 48 (extra content available)

Black and White

Target audience age: adult

Keywords: Supernatural – Indigenous Peoples – Theft – Violence

Synopsis: Diayo was born in a tribe in the depths of the Amazon rainforest, but he couldn’t endure the ritual of pain that would make him a warrior. As a child, he fled… Now known as the Devil Indian, respected and feared in the outskirts of Manaus, he is part of a gang planning to rob a boat coming from a clandestine gold mine with a valuable cargo of precious stones. But the supernatural also inhabits the forest and the Black River waters, which are only darker than the blood that flows from his veins.

Chronicles of the Province

Authors: Wander Antunes (script) and Mozart Couto (illustrations)

Pages: 48 (extra content available)

Full color

Target audience age: adult

Keywords: Backlands – Revenge – Violence – Injustice

Synopsis:

In the interior of Brazil, where lands and lives belong to the strongest, vengeance takes shape like the winds of a whirlwind. Chronicles of the Province brings a piece of the small history of the Old Republic, without the big names of history, but exposing the wounds where the whip of the powerful reaches. A violent profile of an era marked by elitist morals and law based on the shotgun of colonels and jagunços.

About Wander Antunes

Wander Antunes is a Brazilian comic book writer and illustrator who has gained international recognition with his publications in Europe and the United States. He has worked with renowned publishers such as Paquet, in Suisse, Dupuis, in France, Editoriale Aurea, in Italy and Scout Comics, in United States. His stories of the character Zózimo Barbosa were adapted into the TV series “Cidade Proibida,” which aired on Rede Globo (Brazil).