![]() Is this a Western? Or is this horror or supernatural? I love that we navigate through all those waters because it gives me a lot of creative freedom. We’ve always had a tough time finding a balance between genres. There’s a disc full of songs inspired by The Redhead, headlined by the multi-talented duo of Lily and Chris Desmond. THE FEW AND CURSED collaboration with Encyclopocalypse isn’t relegated to only an audiobook. We’re finding out our path as it develops underneath our feet. I reached out to Mike, and we decided to make a game, so you see how these things just happen! Along the way, I was introduced to Mark, who encouraged an audiobook. He had an apocalyptic-themed game, and we had an apocalyptic-themed comic book, and we shared similar creative visions. I was running a Kickstarter for one of the comic issues, and Mike Gnade from Rock Manor Games was running a Kickstarter for his board game Maximum Apocalypse, and then, this fan reached out to me and Mike separately and told us that we needed to talk. I love telling the story of how the board game came to be because it involved a fan. The whole way that we move this IP along all these different products happens organically It seems that we have a plan, and we execute it very meticulously, but that’s not what’s happening. The cards followed because I’m an avid collector, and I wanted to have my own cards. I’ve always read comic books, and they were already a big part of my career, so comics felt natural. That was actually suggested by Encyclopocalypse. With an all-encompassing universe that already includes comics, board games and trading cards, an audio project seemed like a no-brainer. It has a little something for everyone and it’s cool to see how organically it was created. It’s a supernatural Western set 70 years after a mysterious apocalyptic event. ![]() That phenomenon that dried up the world also opened it to the gates of hell. This is a world where water is so rare that it’s seen as currency. We had to ration our use of water in the city, and I thought that was the perfect background. I wanted a reason behind these monsters existing in this world, and at the time, São Paulo, Brazil, was going through a terrible drought. Both Fabiano and I enjoyed the character so much that we decided to do something else with it, and that’s how we started working on “The Crows of Mana’Olana” saga. She ended the curse which turned the whole town into creatures. You think that she’s a murderer, but in reality, everyone around her was some sort of zombie or something close to it, and she killed them all. I studied Westerns in film school and knew the tropes and rules and how the genre plays out, so I was like, ‘Listen, I’m not a fan, but I’m ok with it if we give it a twist.’ That first three-page story had The Redhead going into a saloon and everyone around her is dead. I asked him what his favorite genre was, and he said he grew up reading Westerns, but he’d never had the opportunity of working on one. The way it started is Fabiano Neves, the co-creator, I invited him to come up with a three-page short story. THE FEW AND CURSED all started with The Redhead, and she’s the driving force for what we’ve been doing. Throw open the saloon doors and introduce the RUR MORGUE readership to the plight of The Redhead. THE FEW AND CURSED projects have been steamrolling through one crowdfunding campaign after another for close to a decade, and in many cases, often reach their full funding goal within hours of going live. Cagno discusses how a partnership with Encyclopocalypse Publications is creating a new experience for fans of his beloved series. A mysterious worldwide drought has caused the planet’s wells to run dry, and there’s been a race to secure the final drops ever since the mini-series began back in 2015 with “The Crows of Mana’Olana.” Since then, the stories have proven too powerful to stay confined to the page alone There now exists a board game, short film, cards and a soon-to-be-released double vinyl album featuring an audiobook version of the debut story as well as music inspired by the comics. THE FEW AND CURSED tells of “The Redhead,” a gunslingin’ curse chaser whose services can be traded for what has become the most precious of resources: water. But in all fairness, THE FEW AND CURSED, which Cagno co-created with artist Fabiano Neves, interfuses so many elements across multiple genres that trying to pin it down as one singular perspective would be misguided. ![]() Orchestrating a horror-inspired graphic novel may seem curious work for Brazil’s Felipe Cagno, who by admission, isn’t a huge horror fan.
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