Beleléu #1 // ENGLISH

DANIEL L

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GUES T S

PART ONE DEATH IS A STATE OF MIND

C E METER Y

... hello?

eleonora, i came back for you!

there isn’t any eleonora here

i’ll be back to take revenge on your children!

eleonora, my love...

p, p, p...

hi! I’m Casper, the friendly ghost!

pedofile! rapist!

the secret is inside the letter!

wake up!

what a nightmare

eleonora?

WAIT, BELE-WHAT? M

ore than a really thought-out comics anthology, Beleléu is one of the most palpable indicators of the current blossoming in Brazilian cartooning.

The magazine’s main core consists of four creators (Rio natives Tiago Lacerda, Eduardo Arruda and Daniel Lafayette, joined by Brasilia transplant Stêvz) with wildly diverse approaches to the many possibilities hidden in a white page before it actually becomes sequential art; the commom, selling point is a shared interest in some very elevated cartoony plasticity and a peculiar (some dare say mean) sense of humor.

The first edition sports collaborations from Argentinian creators Berliac and Kioskerman plus Caio Gomez and Danilo Z.

Diego Gerlach guerlax.tumblr.com flickr.com/diegogerlach

half full

* in brazil, cats are said to have seven lives only

the city is the urban intervention

HELP !!!

- did you hear SOMETHING? - nope.

guest | daniloz

* my end of the world

O N E

S E C O N D

B E F O R E

roberval shaved

william smoked

mike slipped

joe spied on the neighboor

liz treated her root canal

bob finished a castle

tony tied his shoes

virginia got a tattoo

tobias saw a proctologist

mary played hopscotch

jeronimo jumped off the building

linda was stuck in the elevator

T H E

E N D

O F

T H E

W O R L D

lois got a bingo

sergio and violeta danced the tango

lenis cut his toenails

yolanda painted

walt got to the other side

roger lost his bishop

suzanne watched television

fran waited for the bus

laika barked

layla laughed

valquiria prayed

i already knew it

according to chaos theory, formulated by mathematician edward lorenz, the mere flap of a butterfly’s wings...

... can cause a tornado on the other side of the world

that’s why ernest always walks

elcerdo marilia was the first to teach me astronomy, when we were kids

i found the constellation names funny

black holes intrigued me

but what i really liked were the mETEorS

DELIVERY

Elcerdo

LONELINESS IS ALWAYS BIGGER THAN THE ORDER

WHAT’S IN THE BOX?

THIS SIDE UP

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a: the holy grail

c: spongebob squarepants

a: a mogwai

b: a shrunken head

answer: grumpy mind your damn business!

d: kryptonite

b: kittens

answer: a tv preacher satan leads people to drugs!

c: paraguayan cigarettes

a: kermit, the frog

c: a particle accelerator

d: human organs

b: mcgyver

d: the white stripes

answer: all the alternatives are correct.

There was only macgyver inside the box, but he created a particle accelerator using only the things he had in his pocket.

The experiment went wrong and the box generated a black hole which swallowed Earth and everything in it, including Kermit, the frog and the White Stripes.

are you sure we’re goin’ in the right direction?

I’ve died and want to resurrect

oh boy, there’s a lot of paperwork involved... when did you arrive?

can’t you trust me at least once?

three days ago

you should’ve filled a form as soon as you arrived

do you know who my father is?

she says I’m too mechanic

PART TWO LIVING IS FREESTYLE

FIAT LUX

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grock, I bring bad news what

they’re cutting the funds for the discovery of fire project

but I’m almost making fire!

Don’t take away my sticks!

it seems that now it’s all about inventing the wheel Grock... they’ll need your sticks

Do you come here often?

I see a love in your path: stainless steel, four-speed centrifuge and a one-year warranty.

guest | kioskerman

WHISKY?

WHISKAS.

‘T��� ��� �e�� �r�� �u� �� �e��, �n� t��� ��� f��� �r�� of� �� do��!’

god of fire! i offer the life of my virgin daughter as sacrifice

Q��� ��� r���� , welcome to the hotel california, such a lovely place, such a lovely face, plenty of room at...

rosita, turn the radio down! the hotel california

who’s the fucker that banged my daughter?

guest | berliac Camus said: there are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is uncertain.

Listen! Billie is singing. Shut up.

We are in the era of premeditation and the perfect crime.

Our criminals are no longer those unarmed young people invoking the excuse of love.

Hey! I’m trying to listen to Billie. Can’t you shut up?

ok. He’s here. it should be done quickly.

Their alibi is irrefutable:

philosophy that can turn murderers into judges.

- and well, or the boss will get angry.

* big bad wolf

he’s outside

i can almost see him salivating

the bastard killed my brother, edmund

Fifer turned into a zombie.

I locked him in the basement At least give me a Plaboy magazine!

I hope that the boards I nailed on the windows will do

The phone wires were ripped out and I’m in a cabin in the woods

I’m about to have a nervous breakdown

Haha! You gonna die!

Haha! You’re going to die!

Haha! You gonna die!

Haha! You’re going to die!

Haha! You’re going to die!

Haha! You’re going to die!

H go aha! ing u’ 2 d re ie!

my god, i’m losing it!

You are indeed

Haha! You’re going to die!

Take that, infernal knave!

Is he dead?

i guess so

but, wait! what’s that?

Thank you Fiddler! You’ve released our souls!

HOW A RECKLESS ATTITUDE CAN LEAD TO A GOOD IDEA

WHEN IT’S NO LONGER POSSIBLE

TO PUT IT IN PRACTICE + elcerdo

epiphanies only after office hours!

BAR TALK

Elcerdo +

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IT’S INCREDIBLE THAT AFTER SO MANY CENTURIES SINCE WE’VE BEGUN TO THINK SCIENTIFICALLY ABOUT THE WORLD, WE STILL HAVEN’T REACHED A UNIVERSALLY ACCEPTED DEFINITION OF WHAT IS LIFE.

it was raining

she was also there

we escaped on a plane

I was IN THE DESERT

or maybe it was a flying saucer

dinner was served

I think that was before the bomb

then I stole the captain’s gun

who was actually myself

well,

docto

r?

i’d b et o n se a b is c uit

insomnia

elcerdo

guest | gomez

BE AU T Y K NOWS NO PA I N

W

e’re back, live from Earth, where, in a few moments we’ll know who is going to be the next Miss Human Being of the century. But, first, our last finalist: Hope, on stage, weighing ninety tons — and still, lighter than a feather —, watch out for her measurements: 15 inches tall, 184 feet bust, 32” waist, mile round hips with a half-mile long smile, she’s a dream girl for sure. A Quantic Physics graduate at Sri Lanka University, her hobbies include melting polar ice caps and eating stuffed crab shells.

She would also like to discover the cure for toe cancer and the meaning of life, just as soon as pigs start flying in Malasia. She can definitely fill out a bikini, and name her algorithms and the square roots of our foreign debt at any time. It keeps her humour tanned and shiny like a sunday morning atom bomb.

She doesn’t mess around, she’s ready and shaved and determined to win.

The judges check the stars through the telescope, the audience through binoculars and their consciences through electron microscopes. The gamblers are ready and betting high: it’s a close race, even though Hope has murdered all the other contestants. Last month’s champion has had her crown of thorns surgically removed, resigned and can’t wait to trade her dead weight belt and heels for a trip to Acapulco. The crowd goes wild with the sponsor’s ads, Hope tap dances all over her opponents’ dead bodies, whistling cat food jingles and smoking big cigars. The judges flip a coin. Hope sells all of her stockfunds as the crowd claps madly at the apllause sign. And here it is, only two moths late, the sealed envelope with the results and the bill. Ladies and gentlemen, we will announce the winner after the commercial break.

IT’S BETTER TO JUST GIVE THEM WHAT THEY WANT!

A COMIC BASED ON A MOVIE

BASED ON ANOTHER MOVIE THAT’S BASED ON A BOOK

THAT’S BASED ON A MARGERINE COMERCIAL!

ARTIFICIALLY COLORED

... and the keys were in my pocket the whole time!

yeah...

i’m batman

LAFA + STÊVZ

IT AIN’T OVER ‘TIL IT’S OVER ELCERDO HAS PATENTED POMEGRANATE LIQUOR. HE LIVES IN A SMALL VILLAGE IN FRANCE, PRODUCING IT AND RAISING GOATS

stêvz was last seen playing bongos naked in a cave on the outskirts of Oaxaca

Daniel Lafayette became the leader of human resistance against the machines

Eduardo Arruda went to live in the woods, away from the artificiality and excesses of civilization. But villagers nearby are said to have seen him practicing petty theft of items such as fruits and bottles of anti-dandruff shampoo.

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