Capital

A hilarious jab at capitalism in the form of a simple, wordless, illustrated story about a piggy bank whose greed becomes unstoppable! From award-winning Portuguese artist Afonso Cruz.

Author: Afonso Cruz
Publisher: Read Leaf
Published: 11/18/2016
Pages: 40
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.90h x 7.90w x 0.30d
ISBN13: 9781772290059
ISBN10: 177229005X
BISAC Categories:
- Humor | Topic | Business & Professional
- Humor | Form | Pictorial

About the Author
Afonso Cruz is an award-winning Portuguese author and illustrator. Born in Figueira da Foz, Portugal, he has visited over sixty countries. He has studied at the António Arroio Art School, the Lisbon Faculty of Visual Arts and the Institute for Visual Arts of Madeira. He is the author of a dozen books, which have garnered him the Camilo Castelo Branco Grand Prize, the European Union Prize for Literature, and the Portuguese Society for Authors Award in the Literature category. The Portuguese edition of Capital (Pato Lógico, 2014) was awarded the 2014 Portuguese National Award for Illustration, and his recent picture book The Human Contradiction (Caminho, 2010) was selected for the IBBY (International Board on Books for Young People) Honor List and was a 2011 Portuguese National Award for Illustration honor book. Afonso also has a monthly column, "Parallax", in the arts newspaper Jornal de Letras, Artes e Ideias, and is an animated film director and member of the band The Soaked Lamb.