Cordel literature (“Literatura de Cordel” in portuguese, means “string literature”) are popular and inexpensively printed booklets common in the Northeast of Brazil. They usually contain folk novels, poems and songs, and they are sold at fairs and in the street. Cordel uses in its cover a very specific and traditional kind of xylography, and since I’ve done this kind of aesthetics for another “A Song of Ice and Fire” illustration, I decided to use the same style for a reinterpretation of the book covers.




