Marcelo D'Salete (born 1979) is a Brazilian comic book writer, illustrator and professor.

[1] During his adolescence, he studied graphic design at Carlos de Campos College and worked as an illustrator for publishers.

His most acclaimed works deal with the history of resistance to slavery in Brazil from the perspective of the Afro-Brazilian peoples: Cumbe, from 2014, and Angola Janga from 2017.

[3] Angola Janga, a story about the Palmares quilombo, took eleven years of research and work by the author.

Cumbe was published in English in 2017 by Fantagraphics as Run for It: Stories of Slaves Who Fought for Their Freedom.