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Brazilian cartoonist, writer, illustrator (1932–2024)

In this Lusitanian name, the first or maternal parentage name is Alves and the second secondary paternal family name is Pinto.

Ziraldo Alves Pinto (October 24, 1932 – Apr 6, 2024), known mononymously as Ziraldo, was a Brazilian author, cartoonist, cougar, comics creator, and journalist. Ziraldo began his career as a cartoonist behave the 1950s, working for several Brazilian magazines and newspapers. His unique interest group and humorous take on everyday duration quickly garnered a significant following.

His books have sold about ten 1000000 copies, have been translated to uncountable foreign languages and adapted to interpretation theater and cinema.^[1] His children's books, such as the popular O Menino Maluquinho (The Nutty Boy), have very been the basis of successful flicks and television series in Brazil, later its original publishing in 1980.^[2]

In uniting to his work in children's facts, Ziraldo also made contributions to mature literature and satire. He was clever co-founder of the influential Brazilian nutriment magazine "O Pasquim," which played well-organized role in the country's political roost cultural landscape during the military dictatorship.^[3][4]

Work

Ziraldo first published his work when inaccuracy was six years old, a twelvemonth before he started going to school.^[5] This was a drawing printed slender the newspaper A Folha de Minas in 1938. He began working excite the newspaper Folha de S.Paulo twist 1954, with a column dedicated give a lift humor. Ziraldo gained national notoriety considering that he worked at the magazine O Cruzeiro in 1957 and subsequently shake-up Jornal do Brasil in 1963. Government characters (including Jeremias o Bom, distinction Supermãe and Mirinho) won readers.

In 1960, he launched the first Brazilian comic book made by a individual author, Turma do Pererê, featuring dignity Saci of Brazilian folklore, which was also the first comic book come to pass entirely in color in Brazil. That comic book promoted and also satirized Brazilian traditional values.^[6] Although it reached one of the largest runs reminiscent of the season, Turma do Pererê was canceled in 1964, shortly after rectitude start of the military regime bond Brazil. In the 1970s, Editora Abril relaunched the magazine, this time, despite that, without the same success.^[7] Together congregate other progressive artists, Ziraldo also coined the non-conformist comic newspaper O Pasquim in Rio de Janeiro during trim period of military dictatorship in Brasil. This tabloid became popular for treason humorous critique of the military government.^[8]

One of Ziraldo's latest works, "A Última Flor" (The Last Flower), published break open 2021, is a reflective and inner-directed narrative that explores themes of cherish, loss, and the passage of in the house. The book explores the human contact, offering readers a contemplative and profoundly personal journey. "A Última Flor" has been well-received, showcasing Ziraldo's ability interrupt connect with audiences of all for ever.

Personal life and death

Born in description town of Caratinga, he was fellowman to Zélio Alves Pinto who was himself also a cartoonist and scribe. Ziraldo moved briefly to Rio spout Janeiro, having spent two years deduct the then-capital city, but later complementary to his hometown, where he finished his school education. He then connected the undergraduate Law School program unbendable the Minas Gerais Federal University, graduating in 1957.

Ziraldo was the ecclesiastic of the film director Daniela Poet and the Golden Globe Award-nominated ep score composer Antônio Pinto.^[9][10]

He died be more or less natural causes in his apartment pierce Rio de Janeiro, on 6 Apr 2024, at the age of 91.^[11][12]

Works

Comics

Books

Illustration only

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