Le procès de Braki
Gnoan Kacou, Maxime (aka Mendozza Y Caramba)
Illustrator country: Ivory Coast
Scenarist: Gnoan Kacou, Maxime (aka Mendozza Y Caramba)
Scenarist country: Ivory Coast
Language: French
Keywords: environment; fish; nature; tale
PROJECT:
Participated to Matite africane in Europa
PUBLISHED IN:
Published in: edited by S. Federici, A. Marchesini Reggiani, M. Repetti, Matite africane. Fumetti e vignette dall'Africa, Lai-momo, Sasso Marconi 2002
The Braki case – Braki is an eight-year-old child who lives in the forest. He’s cruel and kills everything he finds: plants, insects and animals. One day, he finds a beautiful flower and blows its petals away. But the petals become bees and start following him. He jumps into the water and grabs a taxi-fish that carries him to the depths. In fact, the fish abducts him and takes him to the animals’ tribunal, where he can be judged for mistreating animals. The child asks for forgiveness but he’s sentenced to death; a sentence which will soon be carried out. But the taxi-fish manages to help him escape and they run away together. Braki repents everything he’s done to the animal world and becomes a defender of nature.
Technique: Tempera
Color / Black and White
Original drawings
Year: 2001
Dimensions: 29,7 x 21 cm
Exhibited where: Exhibited in Bologna, Accademia di Belle Arti, Istituto Statale d’Arte, March 16 – April 30, 2002
Inventory: inv. 648 / coll. CX13.IVORY.MENDOZZA.3
Number of sheets: 28
Notes: The 3rd, 5th, 7th, 9th, 11th, 16th, 18th, 20th, 22nd, and 24th page on verso: ok - The 10th page on verso: Mendoza y Caramba - The 13th page on verso: Mendoza y Caramba, and ok - The 24th page on verso: Mendoza y Caramba, aka Maxime Gnoan Kacou (Mendoza y Caramba), (Costa d'Avorio), Le proces de Barki, inedito 2001
