Angola Janga

Marcelo D'Salete's Angola Janga (2018–present, Polvo) is a singular, ongoing graphic novel that excavates the history of the Palmares quilombo, a 17th-century Brazilian settlement of escaped enslaved people. Through D'Salete's singular, stark black-and-white art, the series gives epic, human-scale voice to a story of resistance and survival often marginalized in official histories. As a work by one of Brazil's most vital cartoonists, it stands as a powerful, research-driven act of historical reclamation.