High Seas Adventure and Thrills Await in 'Carthago: Kane' from Humanoids

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Internationally renowned publisher Humanoids revealed today a first look at CARTHAGO: KANE, a new, original graphic novel by writer Christophe Bec, artist Ennio Bufi, colorist Andrea Meloni, and translated by Montana Kane.

From the world of the critically acclaimed series, CARTHAGO comes the story of Kane, a merman from a subterranean society hunted by a corrupt billionaire obsessed with mythological creatures, available in October 2023.

China, 1977. Kane, a young man-triton hybrid, escapes from his captivity in a secret research facility owned by a corrupt billionaire intent on proving the existence of not only the tritons but the megalodons. As Kane flees his captor's henchmen and trackers, he finds himself in a breathless chase with a megalodon of legend! But is the megalodon really his enemy?

Christophe Bec is a writer and artist. Born in France, he spent the first few months of his life in Morocco due to his parent's work. Attracted to comics from an early age, he began his career by producing fanzines, one of which earned a Best Fanzine nomination at Angoulême Comics Festival. He joined the Comics School of Angoulême the next year. Known for his artwork on Absolute Zero, Sanctum, and Prometheus, he is also the author of Pandemonium, Shadows of Salamanca, and Carthago. He earned several Best Comic Album nominations for Sanctum at both the Cognac Detective Film Festival and the Jules Verne Film Festival. He also won the Uderzo Prize for his series Lent.

Born in Italy in 1976, Ennio Bufi graduated in sculpture from the Academy of Fine Arts in Bari. From 2007 to 2010, he worked in animation and participated in several productions as a graphic designer and character designer. After being noticed for his illustrator work, he published for the first time in France with Grand Angle, a book entitled Clandestino written by Marzano. In 2013, he then worked on the bestselling children's series, Geronimo Stilton, at Glénat. In 2016, he illustrated Vértigo at Lombard and joined Humanoids as the artist on the popular Carthago series.

CARTHAGO: KANE will be available in bookstores everywhere (bookshop.org) on October 24, 2023 and in comic shops (comicshoplocator.com) on October 25, 2023. Digital copies can be purchased from comiXology and other digital platforms.