Text:
Ilan Brenman
Illustrations: Guilherme Karsten
translation: In Alkain
Denonartean, 2024

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At the end of this album is a quote from Benjamin Franklin: “There has never been a good war, nor a bad peace.” And indeed, this book by two Brazilian authors speaks to us of the insanity of war, a serious topic, but counted in a mood.

The skin and the back cover form an image, two dog sausages pulling on a rope. On the skin we have a large dog pulling rage, and on the back of it, a little brown twisting enraged. And that string of sausages is one of the most important elements in this story. For the first time, we will see that the page limit marks half the string between the credit page and the page on which the title appears. In the following pages we will see the two dogs coming up on each side of the leaves, then the sausage string, pulling, then the dog owners pulling on them, to which a few people will join… until there is a group of people pulling on each side of the sausage string.

What has been a dispute between two dogs, we will see it become a clash between many people. And the argument, "This is a war," when it's at its peak, a cat appears, and the dogs come out behind it, releasing the rope and circling all the people.

The final has a touch of humor, the two dogs playing together and the people asking for the reason of the discussion. But in addition to this humor, the page to page is growing; we will be able to see in images the characters that are known to us; of all kinds (three pigs, Peter Pan, the Pope, Edurnezuri… but also the soccer players Maradona and Pelé, an astronaut, a submarine, etc. ), which refer to many facts and stories and are rather curious to us.

The Princes we knew of Ilan Brenman also make puzzles for the album (Algar, 2017) and Guilherme Karsten, on the contrary, are you Auto-stopean (Pamiela, 2021) or Munstroa? (Ibaizabal, 2022) for jobs, among others; now they offer us a very nice, fun job and, at the same time, a humorous work that tells us about serious things.