Painting an entire favela in Rio de Janeiro

As some of you know, I’m a huge fan of crowd sourced projects. From graphic novels and games to social change, I love supporting ‘indie’ work.

About once a week Kickstarter sends out an e-mail entitled, “Projects We Love,” highlighting some of the company’s favorite ongoing projects, the latest of which I found fascinating. I’ve been doing a lot of research on Brazil’s favelas, more specifically those around Rio de Janeiro, for a comic book I’m currently writing. Favelas have shown up in recent years as a stage for big budget action (the Call of Duty and Fast and Furious franchises both feature them) but there is a human aspect of these ‘cities’ that we less often see.

Enter Haas and Hahn of the Favela Painting project.

From their Kickstarter page:

Between 2005 and now, the favelas of Rio de Janeiro have…