VIRUS, André Ruivo
In Portuguese: Preface by João Pinharanda, design by Jorge Silva, 192 pages paperback A4 format Xerefé Edições 2021,
"The doses administered by the artist seem homeopathic, such is the lightness of each cartoon; but each one of them is a powerful projectile launched by the pharmacist Redhead... (...) André Ruivo's viral humour is smarter than all the vaccines that could protect us from it. It is a humour that insinuates itself into the immune system (...) that progressively takes over the body of those who see it, read it." from the preface by João Pinharanda
This book is a real bomb of good humor. A bomb full of drawings - made in a time when the virus has in fact occupied our days. The artist, despite being confined, had no hesitations: he took several tools - pencils, pens, colored pencils - and treated us to health, by publishing, daily, these stories on social networks. ("Hearts up!", the drawings argue). The reader can only let himself be contaminated
