University Libraries’ International and Area Studies Department, in partnership with the Center for Latin American Studies’ Afro-Brazilian Arts and Activism Lecture Series, will present the next installment of the Global Comics Lecture Series: an invited talk by Brazilian comics artist Hugo Canuto titled “The Making of Tales of the Orishas.” Hugo Canuto is an illustrator, comics author and architect. His works seeks to explore the relationship between art, culture and the mythology of Brazil and Latin America. He is the author of the Contos dos Orixás, a comic series adaptation of the epic stories of the Yorubá and their descendants. Contos dos Orixásis the winner of the Angelo Agostini award and nominated as a finalist for the Jabuti award in the Comic Book category. He is currently working on writing and illustrating A Canção de Mayrube and the second volume of the Contos dos Orixás series.
This event will offer English/Portuguese simultaneous translation, provided by Raquel Luciana de Souza and made possible by the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum.
