Angola Janga

Marcelo D'Salete’s Angola Janga (2019–present, Bahoe Books) is a powerful, singular graphic history of the Palmares quilombo—the largest and longest-lasting community of escaped enslaved people in colonial Brazil. D'Salete, the series’ primary artist and writer, brings his acclaimed research and stark, expressive linework to this single-issue work, which serves as a vital, unflinching reclamation of a suppressed chapter of resistance. Rooted in meticulous scholarship and told from the perspective of the maroons themselves, the book stands as a landmark in both Brazilian comics and historical graphic storytelling.