Monica's Gang or Monica and Friends is a Brazilian comic book series and media franchise created by Mauricio de Sousa.
Combo Rangers is a series of webcomics created in 1998 by Japanese-Brazilian author Fábio Yabu. It is based on Japanese manga and the Super Sentai series. It started off as a parody, then developed more serious storylines that still included comedy. It features five main rangers as well as an extra white one. They are led by O Poderoso Combo, and fight against several forms of evil. Combo Rangers has won the HQ Mix Award three times.
The Cavern Clan (Piteco) is a Brazilian comic strip created in 1961 by Mauricio de Sousa. It is part of the Monica's Gang series.
The Funnies, also known as Bubbly the Astronaut is a Brazilian comic strip series, created in 1963 and part of the Monica's Gang comic strips. It centers around Bubbly, an astronaut, whose parents and ex-girlfriend Rita appear very rarely, making him the only recurring character. The comic strip can be defined as a science fiction adventure strip.
Troféu HQ Mix is a Brazilian comics award. The prize was created in 1989 by João Gualberto Costa (Gual) and José Alberto Lovetro (Jal), members of the Association of the Brazilian Cartoonists.
Rafael Grampá is a Brazilian comic book artist and film director, best known for his creator-owned graphic novel Mesmo Delivery and DC Comics' The Dark Knight Returns: The Golden Child.
Festival Internacional de Quadrinhos (FIQ) is a comic convention held in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, every two years.
Gustavo Duarte is a Brazilian cartoonist and comics artist. His work is known for his usually silent comics, which rely on the characters' body language.
The Present is a 2014 animated short film directed and co-written by Jacob Frey and co-written with Markus Kranzler. It is based on "Perfeição", a comic strip by Fabio Coala. The short film tells the story of a 12 year old boy who gets a three-legged puppy from his mom, eventually warming up to it. The short explores the challenging topic of disability and living with an amputated leg.
Danilo Beyruth is a Brazilian comics artist.
Laudo Ferreira Jr. is a Brazilian comics artist. He began his career in 1983, illustrating for several publishers, as well as working with Advertising and the development of scenarios and costumes for theater. He won the Troféu HQ Mix in 1995, 2008, 2014, 2015 and 2016. He created the comic adaptations of José Mojica Marins's Coffin Joe movies and several other graphic novels, like Olimpo Tropical and Yeshuah.
André Diniz is a Brazilian comics artist. He began working with comics in 1994 with the fanzine Grandes Enigmas da Humanidade, which had a circulation of 5,000 copies.
Jefferson Costa is a Brazilian illustrator and comics artist. He has worked in several comic books, such as the adaptation of the book Kiss Me, Judas, as well as publications such as Quebra Queixo Technorama, A Dama do Martinelli and La Dansarina and works in Brazilian compilations Front and Bang Bang. He also published works in the North American anthologies Gunned Down and Outlaw Territory # 3. Jefferson also works with character design and animation scenarios, having worked on Cartoon Network Brazil's Historietas Assombradas para Crianças Malcriadas, as well as the Brazilian MTV series Megaliga, Fudêncio, The Jorges and Rockstarghost. In 2013, he won the Troféu HQ Mix in the "Best Comic Adaptation" category with Coleção Shakespeare em Quadrinhos Volume 4. In 2016 he won again the Troféu HQ Mix, this time with the graphic novel "La Dansarina" as "Best National Special Edition". In 2018, he published Jeremias - Pele, part of Graphic MSP collection, with scripts of Rafael Calça.
Universo HQ is a Brazilian website about comics and considered the most important Brazilian information source on comics-related news.
Guia dos Quadrinhos is a Brazilian comic book database created with the objective of cataloging all comics published in Brazil, whether graphic novels, magazines, fanzines or independent publications.
Bianca Pinheiro is a Brazilian comics artist and illustrator. She graduated from Graphic Arts by UTFPR and did postgraduate studies in Comics by the Grupo Educacional Opet.
André Luiz da Silva Pereira, well known as André Vazzios is a Brazilian colorist, comics artist and architect. Graduated in Architecture from Mackenzie Presbyterian University, he began his career as an illustrator in 1995 at the Abril Jovem publishing house.
Monica and Friends: Bonds is a 2019 Brazilian family adventure film produced by Estúdios Mauricio de Sousa, directed by Daniel Rezende, with screenplay written by Thiago Dottori, and starring Giulia Benite, Kevin Vechiatto, Laura Rauseo and Gabriel Moreira. The film was based on the eponymous graphic novel by Vitor and Lu Cafaggi and the series of homonymous comic books created by Mauricio de Sousa. The movie was first released in US during the Hollywood Brazilian Film Festival, in November 16, 2019.
Sidney Gusman is a Brazilian journalist and editor. Gusman graduated in journalism at the Methodist University of São Paulo and started writing professionally about comics in 1990, with articles published in newspapers such as Folha de S.Paulo, O Estado de S. Paulo, among others, as well as magazines such as Imprensa, Superinteressante, Duas Rodas etc. Between 2003 and 2006 he was editor of the Brazilian version of Wizard magazine. In 2006, he became responsible for the Editorial Planning area of Mauricio de Sousa Produções, where, among several other projects, he was the creator of the Graphic MSP series, which since 2012 has published several graphic novels with reinterpretations of the classic characters created by Mauricio de Sousa by several Brazilian artists. He is also editor-in-chief of Universo HQ, the most important news portal about comics in Brazil. Gusman won the Troféu HQ Mix as best specialized journalist seven times. He also won the Troféu Jayme Cortez twice, in 2004 and 2014.
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