Laudo Ferreira Jr. is a Brazilian comics artist.
Prêmio Angelo Agostini, sometimes also called Troféu Angelo Agostini, is the most traditional comics award in Brazil. It was created in 1985 by the Associação dos Quadrinhistas e Caricaturistas do Estado de São Paulo (AQC-ESP), which still organizes the event today.
Universo HQ is a Brazilian website about comics and considered the most important Brazilian information source on comics-related news.
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.
Franco de Rosa is a Brazilian journalist, editor and comics artist. He started his career in 1974, with the comic strips Chucrutz and Capitão Caatinga, published in some Brazilian newspapers, such as Notícias Populares. From 1980, he started to make illustrations for newspapers and magazines. In 1984 he founded, alongside Paulo Paiva, the publishing house Maciota, which lasted until the 1990s. In 1997, he founded, alongside Dorival Vitor Lopes and Hélcio de Carvalho, the publishing house Mythos Editora. Rosa won the Troféu Jayme Cortez in 1990 and 1991, the Prêmio Angelo Agostini as best editor in 2003 and 2004 and as "Master of the National Comics" category in 2010.
Manoel Messias de Mello, better known as Messias de Mello, was a Brazilian illustrator and painter. Born in Alagoas, he moved to São Paulo in the 1930s. He started working as designer of posters and shop windows, until he got a job as an illustrator at Gazeta Juvenil, a children's supplement for the newspaper A Gazeta.
Rodolfo Zalla was an Argentine comics artist. He started drawing comics while still in Argentina in 1953, but his career gained prominence after moving to Brazil with fellow comic artist José Delbo in 1963. He started producing comic strips of characters such as Targo, O Vingador and O Escorpião. He has worked for several comic book publishers and has produced stories in various genres, such as war and terror. He also produced Disney Comics about Zorro for editora Abril. In 1985, he was awarded 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 remained active drawing comics until his death in 2016, at 84 years old.
Eugenio Colonnese was an Italian-born Brazilian comic artist.
Gedeone Malagola was a Brazilian comics artist and editor. He started his career in the 1940s, drawing for the newspaper A Marmita. He worked for several comic book publishers until he founded his own, Editora Júpiter. His main works were in the 1960s at GEP, where he created the superheroes Raio Negro, Hydroman and Homem Lua. In the late 1960s, Malagola wrote unofficial stories of the X-Men for GEP. In 1986, he was awarded 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.
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.
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.
Cláudio Seto was a Brazilian journalist, visual artist, comic artist, poet, photographer, cultural animator and bonsai artist. Of Japanese descent, at age nine he went to study at a Zen monastery in Japan, where he took the opportunity to visit Osamu Tezuka's studio on weekends. When he returned to Brazil in the 1960s, he was hired by Edrel publishing house, where he published stories about samurai and ninja, who were still little known by Brazilians. Seto is considered the forerunner of the use of the manga style in Brazilian comics and his best-known character was O Samurai. In the 1970s, he moved to Curitiba to work at the Grafipar publishing house, which had hired some of the best Brazilian comic artists of the time. In 1988, 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.
Waldyr Igayara de Souza was a Brazilian comic book artist and editor. He started his career working for the Outubro and Taika publishing houses, as well as the studio Alcântara Machado Propaganda, along with Lyrio Aragão, Julio Shimamoto and Luiz Saidenberg. In 1961, he started working at editora Abril, being one of the first Brazilian artists to work with Disney comics at the publishing house. He created the character Dugan Duck, nephew of Fethry Duck. The character was quite successful in Brazil and Italy, being the only duck with a yellow color. Igayara also worked as editorial director of Abril's children's division for 20 years, creating important children's magazines such as Recreio e Alegria. In 1993, 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.
Ely Barbosa was a Brazilian comics artist. He started working with comics in the early 1970s with his studio, which produced the Os Trapalhões comic book for Bloch publishing house. In 1976, he released his own characters: Turma da Fofura and Turma do Cacá, initially in children's books, but which, with their success, quickly gained comics, first by the publisher RGE and later by the editora Abril. In the 1980s, new characters emerged, such as Amendoins, Gordo and Patrícia, all with their own comic books, which were published until 1992. Barbosa also produced animations and TV commercials, plays and children's television series with his characters, such as Tutti-Frutti and Boa Noite, Amiguinhos in the 1980s and Fofura na TV, in the 1990s. In 1994, 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.
Getulio Delphim - sometimes Delphin or Delfin - is a Brazilian comics artist and illustrator. He began his career at the age of 15 at Rio Gráfica publishing house as a comics penciller and magazine cover designer. At 18, he was working for the publishing houses Outubro and La Selva. One of his main works was in the superhero's comic book Capitão 7. In 1970s, he stopped working only with comics, dedicating himself to advertising illustration. In 1994, 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.
Ivan Saidenberg was a Brazilian comics artist, writer and cartoonist.
Roberto Fukue, sometimes Roberto O. Fukue or Rof, was a Brazilian comic artist of Japanese descent. He started working with comic books at age 16, following his brother Paulo Fukue, who had been hired by the EDREL publishing house. In 1972, Fukue went to editora Abril, again together with his brother, where he worked for many years with Disney comics, drawing characters like José Carioca, Goofy, Mickey, etc. He also worked on the comic books Senninha and Sítio do Pica-Pau Amarelo, among others. In 1995, 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. In 2009, Fukue was part of the creative team that relaunched the comic book Turma do Arrepio, which was a success in the 1990s.
Fernando Ikoma is a Brazilian painter and comic book artist of Japanese descent. He moved to Curitiba at the age of 14, where he started working as an apprentice shop window designer. At 19, Ikoma started to work with comics in search of a better financial situation. He worked as a comic artist at EDREL, EBAL and Abril publishing houses. His main creation in the comics was the character Fikom, published by EDREL in the 1970s and whose adventures took place in the world of dreams, a place where his alter ego, the ugly Mukifa, could play the role of a beautiful hero. He also wrote the book A Técnica Universal das Histórias em Quadrinhos. Ikoma, however, left comics after some years to work as a painter.
Lyrio Aragão was a Brazilian comic book artist and policeman. He began his career in the 1960s at the October publishing house as an assistant to Jayme Cortez. He created several characters from police comics, inspired by his work as a police investigator, such as Detetive Otávio and Detetive Teobaldo. He also worked at Editora Abril with Disney comics and at D-Arte publishing house in the horror comics Mestres do Terror and Calafrio. In 1994, he was posthumously 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.
Bigorna was a Brazilian website about comics with an almost exclusive focus on Brazilian comics.
