Witchcraft

This swirling maelstrom of a graphic novel, crafted by one of the most celebrated cartoonists in South America, delves into colonialism, feminine power, and witchcraft.

Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1768. It is a dark and foreboding night when the boat arrives from Europe, bringing three shadowy figures to shore. Before long, the María sisters will take the New World by storm. In the coming years, they wend their way from town to town, assisting women in need and wreaking vengeance against the men who’ve wronged them. At once fiercely righteous and gleefully malevolent, the sisterhood of witches exert their powers across centuries, from the 1700s to the present, leaving a wreckage of shattered and impotent men in their wake.

Told as a fractured narrative, through the eyes of the people whose lives the sisters have cast asunder, Witchcraft is a mesmerizing mystery to piece together. This masterpiece of a graphic novel combines strange magic, absurdist humor, and a fiery undercurrent of female rage, to tell a heady tale of colonialism, feminism, and indigenous folklore. Hand drawn in a playful, kinetic cartoon style, with a vibrant color palette, this experimental, eerie, and hilarious work assures Sole Otero as one of the most dynamic comics artists in South America — and everywhere.