Qualified in Brazil as "visual columnist", Marcello Quintanilha is inspired by reality to stage strong stories. Rio, Niteroi, Salvador de Bahia or Sao Paulo serve as a framework for his realistic stories, in which he treats details, sound atmospheres and dialogues. At each album, He changes techniques, alternates registers, Varies the framing and revisits the codes of the comic strip. Related to each other, The protagonists are often faced with a degeneration situation. Between action, introspection, fear, anger, but also mutual aid, love and friendship, The author mixes emotions and upsets readers in a story that will crescendo. According to him, This always present tension echoes that of daily life in Brazil. The author features significant characters whose psychology he refines to better tell the country he has known and he carries in him. Translated into several languages, His stories transmit the soul of a multicultural society, But also denounce the social disparities of the country and its inequalities. A poignant humanity which makes Marcello Quintanilha an essential contemporary author and who makes his work universal.
Mélanie Andrieu, Belgian comic book center
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