Savages

The graphic novel Savages, based on the memoirs of Czech adventurer Alberto Vojtěch Frič, tells the remarkable true story of how the explorer brought a Chamacoco Indian named Cherwuisch from South America to Prague in 1908. Three years of work on the graphic novel resulted in a precisely rendered depiction of early-20th-century life in the final years of pre-war Austria-Hungary, presented convincingly in 150 pages of sophisticated, full-colour artworks. By presenting the various amusing and unsettling trials and tribulations of this disparate pair, the work thematizes issues of ethnocentrism, otherness, the (apparent) opposites of “civilization” and “savagery,” as well as the possibilities and limits of inter-cultural understanding. It was very well received and has also been published in French, German, Polish and English.   

Published in 2011 by Labyrint in the Czech Republic.
152 pages / 25 x 19 cm