With these tales, we learned to respect our elders, respect those who are different and unlike us, and that we are stronger together and nobody is truly alone. We learned that there is always someone willing to help, even when it seems all is lost. We learned to live with surprises, with the unexpected. That life has many turns, and nothing is what it seems. That there is not one truth, but a thousand truths, and not one colour, but a thousand colours.
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"There is a harshness that does not hide, besides a message of great humanity, waiting to be shared." - Mercurio
Financed thanks to the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan by the Next Generation EU recovery programme by the European Union.
Written by Ana C. Herreros
Illustrated by Daniel Tornero
Prologue by Kilema
Collection: Black Series
Size: 20 x 28cm
Pages: 96
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 978.84.127565.0.o
Price without VAT 23.56€
RRP 24.50€
Story pack and travel book: 29.50€
Trip to Madagascar
During the summer of 2022, Ana C. Herreros, Daniel Tornero and Kike Carbajal were, together with the Agua de Coco Foundation team, in the south of Madagascar, in Tulear and Mangily, listening and embroidering with the girls. At that time when Ana listened to and collected the stories and Dani imagined the book's illustrations through embroidery, Kike was our eyes, immortalizing the projects they visited, the streets they walked through and the people they met.
With those photographs, we have created this book, a journey through the adventure that was creating The Zebu Man and The Little Sister, and other stories of the girls of Madagascar.
Photographs: Kike Carbajal
Collection: Artifacts
Size: 20.5 x 13cm
Pages:40
Binding: paperback
ISBN: 978-84-127565-3-1
(Price without VAT 6,68€)
RRP. 6.95€
Story pack and travel book: 29.50€
Social project in Madagascar
Thanks to The Zebu-Man and the Little Sister we have partnered with the association Agua de Coco (Coconut Water), which has dedicated itself to international cooperation since 1994, and to sensibilization and developmental education since ten years ago. They work to improve the quality of life of people at risk of social exclusion in the Global South, particularly Madagascar and Cambodia, with a special focus on women and childhood, using education as the engine for the development of communities.
With the purchase of this book you will be contributing to the important work carried out in the communities of Toliara and Fianarantsoa in Madagascar, where education is a priceless resource for their recipients, mostly women and children, so that they can be the protagonists in their development.
Pictures by Kike Carbajal
Our trip to Madagascar
Fotos de Kike Carbajal
In November 2022, Ana C. Herreros, Daniel Tornero, and Kike Carbajal travelled with Agua de Coco to the Toliara and Fianarantosoa communities in Madagascar. There they got to know the projects to which we contribute with our book. Daniel Tornero took part in embroidery workshops, Ana C. Herreros listened to stories told by girls and women, and Kike Carbajal remembered it all with these photos.
Fotos de Kike Carbajal
Ana C. Herreros
She was born in León and her grandmother kept quiet stories. So she soon learned to listen to the silence and to love those who have no voice, those who don't tell tales.
So much so that, years later and already an emigrant in Madrid, she began to write a doctoral thesis on the literature of those who neither write nor read. And so, researching the oral tradition, in 1992 she came across oral narration. She started telling stories, and for more than twenty years, she has not been silent. Then her voice filled with ink and she started writing. Her work has been translated into Catalan, French and Mexican. She has made an autistic man speak, a princess sit down to listen to her lecture and 16 6-month-old babies preferred listening to her stories to taking a bottle. Oh, if her grandmother raised her head...
With Libros de las Malas Compañías she has also published the following titles:
Daniel Tornero
He is an illustrator, narrator and teacher, but above all, he is a narrator. He has been with the Jamacuco stage group since the last century, and he likes telling stories so much that he has gone from voice to paper. Now he also paints the parallel universe of the stories using coloured pencils and a brush made of the hair of a child. Whether as a narrator or as a cartoonist, the important thing is that it continues telling.
As an illustrator, he has been working since January 2012 at the Ipad Magazine DON, and since May 2014 he has been the art director, designer and illustrator of the publishing house Libros de las Malas Compañías. He has already published a book, The Skeleton Woman, which has been a finalist for the Extraordinary Prizes for Plastic Arts and Design of the Autonomous Community of Madrid. It has also received the Honorable Mention at the XII Audiovisual Awards of the Directorate General for Equality.
With Libros de las Malas Compañías he has also illustrated the following titles:
Kike Carbajal
He began his career in photography and design at the height of the rap boom in the 90s, when he co-edited the fanzine Hip Hop Locos, while also producing covers for numerous artists of the time. He worked at Teknoland and set up two audiovisual and graphic design companies.
After working as an art finalist for an important advertising agency, he decided that documentary photography was for him and started his first big project: "Teknolandeses", he created the photographic blog "Tiendas de Barrio" and combined it with corporate work. He is also involved in numerous documentaries combining photography with graphic design. He makes reports for national magazines and published his first book We Are the Street in 2017. After working with numerous NGOs in Africa, he embarked on the Black Series of Books of Bad Company project, documenting the process of collecting stories in Mozambique, Cameroon and now Madagascar.
