Graphic novel iinspired by the research project O Obscuro Fichário dos Artistas Mundanos (The Obscure Archive of Mundane Artists), carried out between the years 2014 and 2017. This book was motivated by the existence of a set of records produced by the Police Of Political and Social Order of Pernambuco (DOPS/PE) between the years 1934 and 1958, with records of the passage through the state of those individuals seen and classified as artists. Of the more than 1,000 records that made up this set, only 403 were conserved and have been kept since 1991 under the protection of the State Public Archives Jordão Emerenciano (APEJE. They are indications of the lives of women and men, Brazilian and foreign, protagonists of a movement that occurred in the city of Recife, in the field of art and entertainment, in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, which shed light on a powerful cultural and political history of the state and the country. What was the "criminalʺ connection between them? They practiced some artistic activity. The work is based on true stories set in an authoritarian society that persecutes artists and anyone who goes against the government is narrated the antics of men and women registered as artists to escape the surveillance and repression practiced by the police state established in the Vargas dictatorship