Dengue #1

by Rodolfo Santullo, Matías Bergara (Illustrator)

Overview

In the not too distant future, thanks to global warming, Montevideo, Uruguay, is a city under siege from swarms of mosquitoes and the deadly dengue fever they carry. As the diseased bodies pile up in the streets, pragmatic Police Sergeant Pronzini must solve the murder of an esteemed entomologist in order to unlock the true secret of a specific type of dengue infection that may just change the face of humanity forever.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781594656262
Publisher:	Humanoids, Inc.
Publication date:	05/11/2016
Sold by:	HUMANOIDS INC - EBKS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	47
File size:	18 MB
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Age Range:	12 - 18 Years

About the Author

Rodolfo Santullo is a Mexican-born Uruguayan writer, journalist, comic book writer, and editor. He was awarded the Solano López Prize for best writing for his graphic novel Cena con Amigos and in 2008, he was awarded a grant by the Ministry of Education and Culture of Montevideo. In 2009 he shared the First Prize in the JC Onetti Contest with the comic book artist Matías Bergara. In 2015, his comic Dengue was published by Humanoids and Forty Coffins by Space Goat Publishing.
Matías Bergara, born in 1984, is Uruguayan video game designer, comic book writer and artist. In 2010, he began publishing the comic El Viejo, written by Alceo Thrasyvoulou, which won the Troféu HQ Mix, the biggest prize in Brazilian comics. Since 2013, he has worked almost exclusively for the international market, including Sons Of Anarchy for BOOM!, Dengue for Humanoids, Sons of The Devil for Image Comics, and American Vampire: Second Cycle for DC/Vertigo. He also illustrated a children 's book by Neil Gaiman, Odd and the Frost Giants in 2015. He was awarded the Legion Book Award in 2015 by the Uruguayan Book Chamber.