Technical specs
Original title: Mar negro
320 pages / 174 x 230 mm
ISBN: 978.989.9061.15.6 / RRP: 22,90€
1st Edition: March 2023
© Rights sold: French, Turkish
Black sea
(Portuguese edition)
Summer is coming to an end, but the beach café is still a hive of activity. JP serves the tables and Inês is behind the bar, making coffee, slicing ham, preparing toasties. They’re not exactly the best of friends. He’s jokey and light-hearted, she takes life a little more seriously.
One foggy morning, an unexpected event brings them together.
But the more Inês becomes wrapped up in someone else’s drama, the more she detaches from her own life.
“Sometimes I feel like I’m not myself”.
“What do you mean?”
“It’s as if I’m someone else or as if I’m trying to be someone else”.
After “Diversion”, Ana Pessoa and Bernardo P. Carvalho return to the subject of identity with another remarkable graphic novel made up of long, meandering dialogues and flawless illustrations.
Recommended for readers aged 15 and over.
This graphic novel is part of the 2 Steps and a Leap collection.
EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK
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This is the hundredth book published by Planeta Tangerina.
A toast to us and our readers!
Technical specs
Original title: Mar negro
320 pages / 174 x 230 mm
ISBN: 978.989.9061.15.6 / RRP: 22,90€
1st Edition: March 2023
© Rights sold: French, Turkish
Awards and recognitions
Winner — “Best YA Comic”, “Bandas Desenhadas” Awards 2023
Nominated — Best plot by a Portuguese author, Vinhetas d’Ouro 2023
Selected — Book Design Award, DGLAB (2023)
What they say
(…) above all, what “Mar Negro” gives off is an enormous naturalness, the feeling that what we’re reading isn’t fiction, but rather a record of real events transposed onto paper. In summary, a portrait of lives as they really are.
F. Cleto e Pina, Jornal de Notícias, 15/04/2023
There’s nothing forced about the language here, nor any of those unfortunately frequent instances of what we imagine is “youthspeak”; what there is, rather, is a skilled fixing of the narration in an internal experience sensitively and complexly handled, born of a wish to imagine a particular kind of world. If this can’t help change the misguided ideas surrounding graphic novels, it’s hard to imagine what could.
Sara Figueiredo Costa, Parágrafo (literary supplement of Ponto Final newspaper), 28/04/2023