At another point, Bras is a carefree twenty-one year old, enjoying his vacation in El Salvador with his best friend Jorge. Moon and Bá capture and hold their readers’ attention with the repeated deaths of their hero Bras, a guy we start to sympathise with a lot as the story moves forwards…and backwards (each chapter ends with a tragedy). He does not make it…he is killed on his way there. His best friend Jorge tries to cheer him up as Bras prepares to attend one of his father’s big events. The comic book starts with Bras as a thirty-two year old obituaries’ writer who is disillusioned about his career of a book writer. Daytripper is simply an exhilarating journey to uncover the mysteries of life and death. Their message is clear: we have one shot at this thing called life and should prioritise the most important things in it, including the people we cherish and the relationships we hold dear. Gabriel Bá and Fábio Moon invite you to step into their colourful, slightly transcendental world of one’s memorable life moments, into the world of “what ifs”, ups and downs, hopes and despairs. Daytripper may be dealing with very uncomfortable issues of life and death, but this beautiful comic book is also eye-opening, inspirational and moving. Bras learns important life-lessons along the way, and it is his relationships with other people that come to define him and his most memorable life moments. We follow and experience his life in a non-chronological order and witness everything from Bras’s “unusual” birth, his first kiss, his major break-up, his career change, to the birth of his child and the death of his parent.

Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá are twin brothers from Brazil who are the creators of Daytripper, an ambitious comic book about Bras de Oliva Domingos, an obituaries’ writer living in Sao Paulo.

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