Wildheit und Gewaltexzesse in Magô Pools Comic Bicho Selvagem

Abstract

The article analyzes Magô Pool’s comic Bicho Selvagem (2022/2024) as an allegory of anthropocentric violence and social hierarchy. Triggered by the imagined threat of a “wild beast,” violence within a Brazilian gated community escalates into racist, sexist, and speciesist acts. The comic is read as a critique of colonial and patriarchal power structures, exposing how violence against animals, nature, and humans intertwines and how the notion of “wildness” mirrors collective fear and denial of responsibility.