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