Comixology Originals and Stout Club Entertainment present Red Tag, a 5-issue limited comic series from the minds of Rafael Scavone, Rafael Albuquerque and Roger Cruz. A fast-paced thriller set on the streets of Brazil, Red Tag is written by Rafael Scavone (A Study in Emerald, Hit-Girl, Funny Creek and Hailstone), illustrated by Roger Cruz (X-Men, Shampoo) with colors by Cris Peter, letters by Bernardo Brice, and edits by Bis Stringer Horne. Red Tag #1 arrives from Comixology Originals, the exclusive digital content line of Comixology, an Amazon company, on March 1, 2022 and will be available simultaneously in both English and Portuguese.
Lis (aka Lisa), Lu (aka Luciana) and Leco (aka Leandro)—three friends bonded by their love for Brazil’s unique street art “pixo” also known as pichação or pixação, a distinctive style of tagging unique to Brazil—strive to be good in a place where corruption still thrives.
After Lis witnesses injustice and abuse of power on the streets of São Paulo, she enlists her friends to take matters into their own hands. Their plan works until they realize they’ve become privy to sensitive information belonging to holdovers from the country’s brutal dictatorial past who are plotting against the movement for reform and an upcoming election in São Paulo. Armed with a can of spray paint and the help of a journalist, can they escape the dangerous and life-threatening plot they’ve mistakenly become entangled in?
“The São Paulo portrayed in Red Tag works as a synthesis of Brazil nowadays – a place bursting with life and talent, where artists and citizens are being systematically hampered down by those who dare to define what is or isn’t art, what is or isn’t justice, or even what is or isn’t democracy,” continues Scavone. “Red Tag is a story of fight and hope in which the villains are fictional, but also very real.”
