“The Misadventures of the Romantic Cannibals" is Chagoya’s fifth codex done at Shark’s and possibly his most irreverent. It is illustrated with comic book characters, religious iconography and imagery, appropriated engravings, Mexican pornography, ethnic stereotypes, Mayan symbols and figures, automobiles, airplanes, book excerpts and elements of US currency. With images that have been altered, combined and juxtaposed, Chagoya creates pages where cultural and religious icons are presented with humor and placed in contradictory, unexpected and sometimes controversial contexts. This print combines woodcut and color lithography on handmade Ivory Amate paper. It has been printed in thirteen colors from one woodblock and 7 aluminum plates in an edition of 30, plus proofs, by Master printer Bud Shark, assisted by Evan Colbert. The codex is presented as an accordion folded book. When closed it measures 7½ x 7½" and opens to a frieze 90" long. It is shown above in three sections. As with Pre-columbian codices it reads from right to left, starting at the top right.