Havana Split Vol. 1 - by Brrémaud

Book Synopsis

Amid 1950s Cuba's simmering unrest, sharp-witted Cuban-American Lily Turner returns to Havana to visit her father, Arnaldo Valdes. When a lost bet leads to his kidnapping, Lily is pulled into a dangerous web of espionage, gang rivalries, and political revolution. With the CIA, the mob, and Fidel Castro's rebels closing in, nothing is as it seems. Gritty and fast-paced, Havana Split launches a noir-drenched series where every alliance comes at a price.

Cuba, 1958. Lily is reunited with her father, the owner of a seedy detective agency in Havana. Well, reunited... Rather, she catches a glimpse of him. Her father, a gambling addict, has been kidnapped along with his secretary by Alfonso, a mafioso and sports betting boss.

The deal is simple: her father in exchange for a starlet, a failed film actress, but above all the mistress of Alfonso's great rival. Simple, easy, fácil, especially since Lily can count on the help of John, an ex-CIA agent, and José, a handyman in his spare time and a full time coward. And all this in the middle of the revolución!

About the Author

A prolific author, Frédéric Brrémaud writes for a large number of publishers, from Dargaud to Bamboo, but also Vents d'Ouest, Le Lombard, Paquet, Urban and Soleil. He now has over a hundred titles, in all genres and for all audiences. With Federico Bertolucci, for the series Love, Brindille and Little Tails, he has been nominated several times for the Eisner Awards. Together, they also won the Jury Prize at Lucca Comics and published Les Vacances de Donald with Glénat Disney. Great lovers of animals (from Cuba and elsewhere), he and Giovanni Rigano published the series Tête de pioche with Dargaud.

Vic Macioci was born in Rome in 1991.

After graduating from high school in literature, she moved to France for her studies and graduated from the Émile Cohl School (Lyon) in 2016, specializing in comics and illustration.

Her first series, Gravity Level, a sci-fi series written by Lorenzo Palloni and published by Sarbacane, earned her the Gran Guinigi Award for Best Drawing at Lucca Comics & Games 2020. She then participated in the anthology Nées Rebelles, written by Morin, Derain, and Hopman and published by Démain.

She is also an illustrator (Giunti, Ablaze) and a character designer for video games, including Roller Drama and Becoming Saint (Open Lab).

She also teaches character design and traditional techniques at the international visual development school Idea Academy in Rome.