Capital [Hardcover]

Award-winning Portuguese artist Afonso Cruz brings us this satirical, wordless, cautionary tale about the power of capital. A boy is given a piggy bank, and grows up feeding it coins as it sits on his bedside table. The piggy bank begins to grow as the boy becomes a man, filled with amazing profits. However, as the years go by, its greediness becomes harder to control, until soon it???s become an out-of-proportion, unstoppable menace!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.Praise for the Portuguese edition ofCapital:

Winner of the 2014 Portugal National Award for Illustration!

ThisCapitalis not a version of the other, although convenes it with intelligence...it does this in both assumed and non-linear fashion, combining the invocation with a dose of sarcasm and humor that the illustration work explores with unerring hand...[This] makesCapitalan iconoclast choice [in the collection].
~ Sara Figueiredo Costa, cultural journalist and literary critic

Afonso Cruz...is a complete and complex author, from whom we are never really sure what to expect.
~ Carla Maia de Almeida, journalsit, translator and award-winning authorTargeted national media mailing to: National newspapers and economics news, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, etc; illustration media and bloggers, including Brain Pickings, etc; school library media, including School Library Journal, etc. Publisher display at select industry conferences and international book fairs.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 Ant??nio 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 tlsĒ