I’ve illustrated this zine O tesouro de Cavendish in partnership with my friend Stella Elia, from BabaYaga collective, based on São Paulo city, in Brazil. Starting with her memories about playing and drawing under the kitchen table, she had the idea of making a zine […]
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Look at the rain! (Olha a chuva!)
Olha a chuva! é um poema sobre um dia de chuva numa casa de papel, parceria com a Carolina Moreyra pelo coletivo BabaYaga.
…and what came before? (…e o que veio antes?)
…and what came before? (…e o que veio antes?) begins at the end and ends at the beginning. Text by Carolina Moreyra, published in Brazil by BabaYaga collective. Dimensions: 11x15cm 32 pages 1st edition: 800 copies Click here to go to BabaYaga collective webpage. […]
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Zine design & illustration: Who is coming? (Quem vem lá?)
Digital illustrations and book design. Zine published in Brazil by BabaYaga collective, text by Alessandra Corá. 4 cards, digital printed with matte finish. Folded, cut and sewed one by one. Dimensions (folded): 18x18cm Digital printing, matte finish Handmade 1st edition: 2016 (sold out) 2nd edition: […]
I exist (Existo)
Illustration and lettering for the book I Exist (Existo), text of Vinícius Cardoso, part of a collection Coletânea Amar de Livres Infantis, published in 2016 with funds that came from Edital Proac 2014 de Manifestações LGBT. To capture the inner feelings and to understand the struggles […]
Let’s pretend that I cook today (Faz de conta que hoje eu cozinho)
A handmade artist’s book for children. Furnished kitchen and tiles made with stamps. There is a refrigerator… …full of fresh ingredients. A cabinet with a pan, a tray and a wood spoon. A stove… …and an oven to bake, just under the stove. […]
Night comes (Anoitece)
Night is coming at Mantiqueira mountains: a bird sings on the top of a tree. In the horizon, blurry mountains in layers… while we flip the pages, the sky becomes darker and darker, and the first star shows up, and by the end the sky […]
I miss kaki (Saudade de caqui)
Project selected and made with funds of Edital de Bolsas de Incentivo à criação literária – Literatura Infantil e Juvenil do PROAC 2015, edited by BabaYaga collective, in 2016. My grandmother was an Japanese immigrant in Brazil. We could live together when I was a child, enjoying the nature’s […]
Beyond the dark (Pra lá do escuro)
Beyond the dark (Pra lá do escuro) was my first indie book, published in 2015. It is about facing the fear of pursuing our own dreams, even when it looks just madness for the others. Watercolor paintings illustrations in a concertina folded book, with handmade papercut. […]
Marcia Misawa 