DANIEL LAFAYETTE + EDUARDO ARRUDA + ELCERDO + STÊVZ + GUESTS

now inenglish!

PART ONE

DEATH IS ASTATE OF MIND

M E T E E RC Y

... hello? eleonora, i came back

for you!

eleonora, my love... eleonora?there isn’t any

eleonora herep, p, p...

i’ll be back to take revenge on

your children!

pedofile! rapist!

hi! i’m casper, the friendly

ghost!

the secret is inside the letter!

wake up!

what a nightmare

More than a really thought-out comics

anthology, Beleléu is one of the most palpable indicators of the current blossoming in Brazilian cartooning.

The magazine’s main coreconsists of four creators (Rio natives Tiago Lacerda, Eduardo Arruda and Daniel Lafayette, joined by Brasilia transplant Stêvz) with wild-ly diverse approaches to the many possibilities hidden in a white page before it actu-ally becomes sequential art; the commom, selling point isa shared interest in some very elevated cartoony plasticity and a peculiar (some dare say mean) sense of humor. The first edition sports collaborations from Argen-tinian creators Berliac and Kioskerman plus Caio Gomez and Danilo Z.

Diego Gerlachguerlax.tumblr.com

flickr.com/diegogerlach

WAIT, BELE-WHAT?

half full

* in brazil, cats are said to have seven lives only

the city is the urban intervention

help !!!- did you hear

something?

- nope.

guest | daniloz

* my end of the world

roberval shaved

liz treated her root canal

tobias saw aproctologist

mary played hopscotch

jeronimo jumped off the building

linda was stuck in the elevator

bob finisheda castle

tony tiedhis shoes

virginia gota tattoo

william smoked mike slipped joe spied on the neighboor

O N E S E C O N D B E F O R E T H E E N D O F T H E W O R L D

lois got a bingo

walt got to the other side

laika barked layla laughed valquiria prayed i alreadyknew it

roger lost his bishop

suzanne watched television

fran waitedfor the bus

sergio and violeta danced the tango

lenis cut his toenails yolanda painted

O N E S E C O N D B E F O R E T H E E N D O F T H E W O R L D

according to chaos theory, formulated by mathematician edward lorenz, the mere flap of a butterfly’s wings...

... can cause a tor-nado on the other side of the world

that’s why ernest always walks

elcerdo

marilia was the first to teach me astronomy, when we were kids

i found the constel-lation names funny

black holes intrigued me

but what i really liked were the mETEorS

elcerdo

delivery

loneliness is always bigger than the order

WHAT’S IN THE BOX?

THIS SIDE UP

{a: the holy grail answer: grumpy

answer: a tv preacher

mind yourdamn

business!

b: a shrunken head

c: spongebob squarepants

a: a mogwai

c: paraguayancigarettes

a: kermit, the frog

c: a particle accelerator

d: the white stripes

b: mcgyver

d: human organs

b: kittens

d: kryptonite

satan leadspeople to

drugs!

answer: all the alternatives are correct. there was only macgyver inside the box, but he created a particle accelerator

using only the things he had in his pocket. the experiment went wrong and the box

generated a black hole which swallowed earth and everything in it, including kermit,

the frog and the white stripes.

are you sure we’re goin’ in the right direction?

oh boy, there’s a lot of paperwork involved... when did you arrive?

three days ago

you should’ve filled a form as soon as

you arrived

do you know who my father is?

i’ve died and want to resurrect

can’t you trust me at least once?

she says I’m too mechanic

PART TWO

LIVING IS FREESTYLE

FIAT LUXFIAT LUXFIAT LUXFIAT LUXFIAT LUX

+

grock, i bring bad

news

they’re cutting the funds for the discovery of fire

project

but i’m almost making fire!

it seems that now it’s all about

inventing the wheel

grock... they’ll need your sticks

don’t take away my sticks!

what

Do yoU comE HErE

ofTEn?

I see a love in your path: stainless steel, four-speed

centrifuge and a one-year warranty.

guest | kioskerman

whiskas.whisky?

‘T��� ��� �e�� �r�� �u� �� �e�� , �n� t��� ��� f��� �r�� of � �� do��!’

Q�� � ��� r���� ,

welcome to the hotel california, such a lovely

place, such a lovely face,plenty of room at...

the hotel california

rosita, turnthe radio down!

god of fire! i offer the life of my virgin

daughter as sacrifice

who’s the fucker that banged my daughter?

guest | berliac

camus said: there are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. the boundary between them is uncertain.

we are in the era of premeditation and the perfect crime.

listen! billie is singing. shut up.

hey! i’m trying to listen to

billie. can’t you shut up?

philosophy - that can turn

murderers into judges.

ok. he’s here. it should be done quickly.

- and well, or the boss will

get angry.

their alibi

is irre-fut-

able:

our criminals are no longer those unarmed young people invoking the excuse of love.

* big bad wolf

he’s outside i can almost see him salivating

the bastard killed my brother, edmund

fifer turned into a zombie. i locked him in the basement

at least give me a plaboy

magazine!

the phone wires were ripped out and i’m in a

cabin in the woods

i hope that the boards i nailed on the windows will do

i’m about to have a nervous breakdown

haha! you gonna die!

haha! you gonna die!

haha! you’re going to die! haha! you’re

going to die!haha! you’re going to die!

haha! you’re going to die! haha! u’re

going 2 die!

my god, i’m losing it!

you are indeed

haha! you’re going to die!

take that, infernal knave!

is he dead? i guess so but, wait! what’s that?

thank you fiddler! you’ve released our souls!

HOW A RECKLESS ATTITUDE CAN LEAD TO A GOOD IDEA WHEN IT’S NO LONGER POSSIBLE TO PUT IT IN PRACTICE

elcerdo +

epiphanies only after

office hours!

elcerdo + ê.bar talk

it’s incredible that after so many centuries since we’ve begun to think scientifically about the world, we still haven’t reached a universally accepted definition of what is life.

it was raining i was in the desert

she was also there

we escaped on a plane

dinner was served

or maybe it was a flying saucer

i think that was before the bomb

then i stole the captain’s gun

who was actually myself

wEll, DocTor?

I’D bET on SEabIScUIT

elcerdoinsomnia

guest | gomez

We’re back, live from Earth, where, in a few moments we’ll

know who is going to be the next Miss Human Being of the century. But, first, our last finalist: Hope, on stage, weighing ninety tons — and still, lighter than a feather —, watch out for her mea-surements: 15 inches tall, 184 feet bust, 32” waist, mile round hips with a half-mile long smile, she’s a dream girl for sure. A Quantic Physics graduate at Sri Lanka Uni-versity, her hobbies include melting polar ice caps and eating stuffed crab shells. She would also like to dis-cover the cure for toe cancer and the meaning of life, just as soon as pigs start flying in Malasia. She can definitely fill out a bikini, and name her algorithms and the square roots of our foreign debt at any time. It keeps her hu-mour tanned and shiny like a sunday morning atom bomb. She doesn’t mess around, she’s ready and shaved and determined to win.

The judges check the stars through the telescope, the audience through binocu-lars and their consciences through electron micro-scopes. The gamblers are ready and betting high: it’s a close race, even though Hope has murdered all the other contestants. Last month’s champion has had her crown of thorns surgically removed, resigned and can’t wait to trade her dead weight belt and heels for a trip to Aca-pulco. The crowd goes wild with the sponsor’s ads, Hope tap dances all over her oppo-nents’ dead bodies, whistling cat food jingles and smok-ing big cigars. The judges flip a coin. Hope sells all of her stockfunds as the crowd claps madly at the apllause sign. And here it is, only two moths late, the sealed enve-lope with the results and the bill. Ladies and gentlemen, we will announce the winner after the commercial break.

BEAUTY KNOWS NO PAIN

it’s better to just give them what

they want!a comic

based on a movie

based on another

movie that’s based on a book

that’s based on a margerine

comercial!

artificially colored

LAFA + STÊVZ

... and the keys were in my pocket the

whole time!yeah...

i’m batman

LAFA + STÊVZ

DANIEL LAFAYETTE: ultralafa.wordpress.com

EDUARDO ARRUDA: eduardoarruda.blogspot.com

ELCERDO: elcerdo.com.br

STÊVZ: cumulusabsurdum.blogspot.com

DANILOZ: barcacadearenque.blogspot.com KIOSKERMAN: kioskerman.com.ar

BERLIAC: berliac.com GOMEZ: talentosamaodireita.blogspot.com

english translation by Cynthia B., Lívia Jácome and Stêvz

rio de janeiro, 2009. ...................................................

.... all rights reserved

++++++++ photos: clara do prado http:// revistabeleleu.com.br

revistabeleleu@gmail.com

IT AIN’T OVER ‘TIL IT’S OVER

elcerdo has patented pomegranate liquor. he lives in a small village in

france, producing it and raising goats

daniel lafayette became the leader of human resistance against the machines

stêvz was last seen playing

bongos naked in a cave on

the outskirts of oaxaca

eduardo arruda went to live in the woods, away from the artificiality and excesses of civiliza-tion. but villagers nearby are said to have

seen him practicing petty theft of items such as fruits and bottles of anti-dandruff shampoo.

DANIEL LAFAYETTE: ultralafa.wordpress.com

EDUARDO ARRUDA: eduardoarruda.blogspot.com

ELCERDO: elcerdo.com.br

STÊVZ: cumulusabsurdum.blogspot.com

DANILOZ: barcacadearenque.blogspot.com KIOSKERMAN: kioskerman.com.ar

BERLIAC: berliac.com GOMEZ: talentosamaodireita.blogspot.com

english translation by Cynthia B., Lívia Jácome and Stêvz

rio de janeiro, 2009. ...................................................

.... all rights reserved

++++++++ photos: clara do prado http:// revistabeleleu.com.br

revistabeleleu@gmail.com