Global Comics Lecture Series: The Making of Tales of the Orishas with Hugo Canuto

Hugo Canuto working on his art. Image courtesy of Hugo Canuto's website.
April 9, 2021
2:20 pm - 3:40 pm
Zoom

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2021-04-09 14:20:00 2021-04-09 15:40:00 Global Comics Lecture Series: The Making of Tales of the Orishas with Hugo Canuto Hugo Canuto is the author of the award-winning Tales of the Orishas [Contos dos Orixás] a graphic novel that celebrates the legacy of Yoruba culture in Brazil. Adapting epic stories of the Yoruba and their descendants, Canuto creates fierce Black Superheroes. Inspired by, among others, comic master Jack Kirby, Canuto explains: “I have always been fascinated by the great epic sagas that burned the souls of the ancients, creating civilizations and monuments. From Gilgamesh to Darth Vader, beautiful Porasy, Thor or Superman, the heroes of a thousand faces still stir our imaginations, with the same charm as when we heard stories around the fire in the night of time.” Canuto is currently working on the second volume of the series Tales of the Orishas as well as the graphic novel and game Mayrube’s Song [A Canção de Mayrube], an epic saga inspired by the mythologies and civilizations of the Americas. This event will offer English/Portuguese simultaneous translation, provided by Raquel Luciana de Souza and made possible by the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum. The event is free and open to the public. The Global Comics Lecture Series is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education Title VI grants for The Ohio State University’s Center for Latin American Studies, Center for Slavic and East European Studies, East Asian Studies Center and the Area Studies Department and the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum of University Libraries. This lecture is presented in partnership with the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Event Coordinators: Dr. Isis Barra Costa, Assistant Professor Contemporary Brazilian Literary and Cultural Studies, Department of Spanish and Portuguese with support from Pamela Espinosa de los Monteros, Latin American, Iberian and Latino/a Studies Librarian Register for the event here. If you require an accommodation such as live captioning or interpretation to participate in this event, please contact libevents@osu.edu as soon as possible. Requests made at least one week prior to the event will generally allow us to provide seamless access, but the university will make every effort to meet requests made after this date. Zoom America/New_York public

Hugo Canuto is the author of the award-winning Tales of the Orishas [Contos dos Orixás] a graphic novel that celebrates the legacy of Yoruba culture in Brazil. Adapting epic stories of the Yoruba and their descendants, Canuto creates fierce Black Superheroes. Inspired by, among others, comic master Jack Kirby, Canuto explains: “I have always been fascinated by the great epic sagas that burned the souls of the ancients, creating civilizations and monuments. From Gilgamesh to Darth Vader, beautiful Porasy, Thor or Superman, the heroes of a thousand faces still stir our imaginations, with the same charm as when we heard stories around the fire in the night of time.” Canuto is currently working on the second volume of the series Tales of the Orishas as well as the graphic novel and game Mayrube’s Song [A Canção de Mayrube], an epic saga inspired by the mythologies and civilizations of the Americas.

This event will offer English/Portuguese simultaneous translation, provided by Raquel Luciana de Souza and made possible by the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum. The event is free and open to the public.

The Global Comics Lecture Series is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education Title VI grants for The Ohio State University’s Center for Latin American Studies, Center for Slavic and East European Studies, East Asian Studies Center and the Area Studies Department and the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum of University Libraries. This lecture is presented in partnership with the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.

Event Coordinators: Dr. Isis Barra Costa, Assistant Professor Contemporary Brazilian Literary and Cultural Studies, Department of Spanish and Portuguese with support from Pamela Espinosa de los Monteros, Latin American, Iberian and Latino/a Studies Librarian

Register for the event here.

If you require an accommodation such as live captioning or interpretation to participate in this event, please contact libevents@osu.edu as soon as possible. Requests made at least one week prior to the event will generally allow us to provide seamless access, but the university will make every effort to meet requests made after this date.