Writer Sunshine Barbito and artist Debora Carita have joined forces to create a comic able the rise of a women in 1920’s New York in the mafia family business.
Here’s the synopsis:
Mafiosa tells the story of Nicoletta Marchesi, the youngest of five children in a family of first generation Sicilian Americans who have established a Mafia family in Brooklyn, New York in the early 1900s. Nicoletta is a precocious and beautiful eighteen year old who, unlike her sisters, is very much a tomboy and grew up always challenging her two older brothers at every turn. But when Nicoletta confronts her father Tommaso and announces her desire to join the family business alongside her brothers, crisis ensues.
“We are thrilled to present Mafiosa to the Kickstarter community,” says Sunshine Barbito. “We wanted to take a familiar and popular storytelling genre; give you the crime and the roaring 20’s. But we wanted to show you this world from a different angle, in order to create a dialogue. The Kickstarter community has proven a great way to develop projects like this.”
“While I’ve worked on many wonderful comics, I’m particularly fond of the character of Nicoletta,” says Débora Carita. “For an artist working in a historically male dominated industry, the story ofMafiosa is very relatable to me. To make your mark you have to do things differently in order to get noticed and succeed, and the dilemma is that those things can also transform you.”
The Kickstarter is live now at: https://www.kickstarter.com/
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