Angola Janga: Kingdom of Runaway Slaves skull and crossbones Acclaimed cartoonist Noah Van Sciver

Acclaimed cartoonist Noah Van Sciver grants us exclusive access to the Artist's process through this collection of his private sketchbooks created between 2013 and 2017

"Contract for Death" (A suicidal man agrees to accept $5

René struggles to adjust to civilian life and imagine his postwar future

occasionally devolving into chaotic scribbles

The work they did together brings the gritty realism and psychological truth of Stephen Crane and a verisimilitude to the page that it seems as if they are reporting from the scene

Angola Janga: Kingdom of Runaway Slaves skull and crossbones Acclaimed cartoonist Noah Van SciverAn acclaimed cartoonist tells the harrowing, life affirming history of a Brazilian slave state. An independent kingdom of runaway slaves founded in the late 16th century, Angola Janga was a beacon of freedom in a land plagued with oppression. In stark black ink and chiaroscuro panel compositions, D'Salete brings history to life; the painful stories of fugitive slaves on the run, the brutal raids by Portuguese colonists, and the tense power struggles