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.
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.
Omar Viñole is a Portuguese-born Brazilian comics artist, colorist and inker.
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. The book earned them the 2019 Prêmio Jabuti for Best Comic Book.
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.
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.
Lucio Luiz is a Brazilian journalist, writer, editor, podcaster and comics author. He holds a degree in Journalism and has Master's degree and Doctorate in Education.
Master of National Comics is one of the categories of Prêmio Angelo Agostini, the most traditional Brazilian award dedicated to comics that has been held since 1985 by Associação dos Quadrinhistas e Caricaturistas do Estado de São Paulo (AQC-ESP).
Julio Yoshinobu Shimamoto, better known as Julio Shimamoto or Shima, is a Brazilian comic artist of Japanese descent. He started his career in the 1950s in the superhero comic book Capitão 7. He has worked in almost all comic book publishers in Brazil in 1960s and 1970s, such as La Selva, Taika, Outubro, Ebal, Vecchi, Grafipar, Abril, among many others. His main works are Musashi I and Musashi II (2003), about the samurai Miyamoto Musashi, and Subs (2006). One of the main themes of his comics is the samurai, having made the first story on the subject in Brazil: Os Fantasmas do Rincão Maldito, published in 1961. Shimamoto continues to produce new comics even with more than 80 years old, having received several tributes and exhibitions about his work. In 1986, he was awarded with the Prêmio Angelo Agostini for Master of National Comics, an award that aims to honor artists who have dedicated themselves to Brazilian comics for at least 25 years.
Flavio Colin was a Brazilian comic artist and illustrator, considered one of the most important comic artists in Brazil. He began his career in the 1950s with an adaptation for the comic book radio series As Aventuras do Anjo, influenced by Milton Caniff, but began to gain prominence with the development of his own stylized artist style. In 1987, he was awarded with the Prêmio Angelo Agostini for Master of National Comics, an award that aims to honor artists who have dedicated themselves to Brazilian comics for at least 25 years. He also won the Troféu HQ Mix in 1994 and 1995. Flávio Colin died in Rio de Janeiro on 2002.
Sérgio Lima (1925–1988) was a Brazilian illustrator and comics artist. In the 1960s, he worked at the publishing house Prelúdio, where he illustrated cordel leaflets and comic books such as Juvêncio, o justiceiro do sertão, as well as adaptations of cordel literature. He also illustrated the comic book biography of Silvio Santos, written by R. F. Lucchetti, as well as horror comics. In the 1970s, he started to create Disney comics at editora Abril and worke in Os Trapalhões comic book. In 1987, he was awarded with the Prêmio Angelo Agostini for Master of National Comics, an award that aims to honor artists who have dedicated themselves to Brazilian comics for at least 25 years.
Álvaro de Moya was a Brazilian journalist, professor, researcher, comics artist, illustrator, writer and TV producer. He was one of the pioneers in academic research on comics in Brazil and one of those responsible for the First International Exhibition of Comics, held in São Paulo in 1951. Moya worked on the Disney comics published by Editora Abril, published novel adaptations at the EBAL publishing house, and made cartoons, illustrations and articles about comics for several newspapers. His first book, Shazam!, published in 1970, is considered one of the most important for Brazilian research on comics. In 1989, he was awarded with the Prêmio Angelo Agostini for Master of National Comics, an award that aims to honor artists who have dedicated themselves to Brazilian comics for at least 25 years.
Miguel Penteado was a Brazilian publisher, printer and comic artist. He started his career working at La Selva publishing house in the 1950s, illustrating horror comic book covers. In 1959, he founded, together with Jayme Cortez, the publishing house Continental with the objective of publishing only Brazilian comics. It was in this publishing house that Mauricio de Sousa debuted in comic books with Bidu. After leaving Outubro due to disagreements with Cortez and other partners, Penteado founded the publishing house GEP, which, among other publications, was responsible for part of the material from Marvel Comics in Brazil from 1969, publishing for the first time in the country characters like the Silver Surfer, the X-Men and Captain Marvel. He gave up working as a publisher in 1972, after having several of his magazines censored by the then Brazilian military dictatorship, retiring in 1980. In 1990, he was awarded with the Prêmio Angelo Agostini for Master of National Comics, an award that aims to honor artists who have dedicated themselves to Brazilian comics for at least 25 years.
Walmir Amaral de Oliveira was a Brazilian comic artist.
Lillo Parra is a Brazilian theatre director and comics artist.
PerifaCon, also informally called Comic Con da Favela, is a comic book event held since 2019 in São Paulo with a focus on reaching mainly the public from the outskirts of São Paulo, who are hardly able to participate in large events such as CCXP due to cost and distance.
Bigorna was a Brazilian website about comics with an almost exclusive focus on Brazilian comics.
