Listen, Beautiful Márcia Joe Ciardiello " and "The Last Will

" and "The Last Will and Testament of Oswald Owens

the work was subsequently made the subject of an obscenity trial (which was won by the publisher)

and therefore doomed to live out eternity forever on the brink of adulthood until a wooden stake or a silver bullet should cut them down

scheming slumlords and all-seeing robot overlords

A vital piece of alternative comic history about Black culture by Black cartoonists

Listen, Beautiful Márcia Joe Ciardiello " and "The Last WillListen, Beautiful Mrcia is a gripping story about a family pushed to the brink. This English language debut was the 2022 "Fauve d'Or" winner at the 2022 Angouleme Comics Festival. Mrcia is a nurse in a hospital near Rio and lives in a favela with her boyfriend, Aluisio, and her daughter, Jaqueline, whom she had very young with another man. Jaqueline, a troubled young adult, makes life difficult for her mother and Aluisio and rebelliously hangs out