Happy 80th, Ziraldo! (Brazilian author/cartoonist and 3-time HCA nominee)

[leno...@yahoo.com]

He was nominated for the Hans Christian Andersen Medal for Writing in 1988, 1990 and 1992. (In 1988, he was also nominated for the Illustrator Award!)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziraldo_Alves_Pinto

http://www.ziraldo.com/history/biograph.htm
Excerpts:

....In the 60's his cartoons and political strips started showing in magazine O Cruzeiro and newspaper Jornal do Brasil. Characters like Jeremias, o Bom, the Supermãe and later the Mineirinho, became extremely popular.

Also in the early 60's his childhood dream came true: Ziraldo became a comics author and launched the first Brazilian comics book by a single author. The main character was one-legged Saci Pererê, an important mythical figure in the Brazilian folklore. Other characters of this gang included a small Indian and several animals of the Brazilian fauna such as a leopard,a jabuti (land turtle), an armadillo, a rabbit and an owl. Turma do Pererê was a landmark in the history of comics books in Brazil.

In 1964, when the military took over the government, the magazine was closed down. It was too nationalistic to survive the fascist coup censorship that happened in Brazil. Nevertheless, these characters were so typically Brazilian that they resisted the hard military years. In 1973 Editora Primor, a publishing house in Rio de Janeiro would re-edit in3 albums a selection of the best stories of Saci Pererê and his gang under the name- A Turma do Pererê. The stories were incorporated into the best teaching books published in the country, helping the Brazilian children to better know and understand their own culture.

During the Military Dictatorship period ( 1964-1984 ), Ziraldo participated was part of an intense resistance effort against repression. Together with other humorists he founded the most important non-conformist newspaper in the history of Brazilian press, O Pasquim. Ziraldo considers O Pasquim to be the big cellar of post-'68 humorists.

With the edition of the AI - 5, an act that restrained civil liberties during the Military Revolution, many Brazilians that were against the regime tried to hide and escape from imprisonment. Ziraldo spent the night helping to hide his friends and did not worry about himself. On the day right after the enactment of the infamous AI-5 he was arrested in his home, and taken to the Forte de Copacabana,accused of being a dangerous element.

In 1968 Ziraldo's talent was acclaimed internationally with the publication of his productions in the Graphis magazine, a sort of Panthéon of the graphic arts. His works were also published in international magazines including Penthouse and Private Eye in the U.K., Plexus and Planète in France and Mad Magazine in the U.S......

(snip)

http://www.google.com/search?num=10&hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=800&bih=382&q=ziraldo+books&oq=ziraldo+books&gs_l=img.3..0i24.1321.1321.0.1743.1.1.0.0.0.0.10.10.1.1.0...0.0...1ac.1.eVvbMFOzmnI
(photos, artwork)

Two sets of articles about today (all are in Portuguese)

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=us&tbm=nws&q=ziraldo+80&oq=ziraldo+80&gs_l=news-cc.3..43j43i400.1546.1546.0.2059.1.1.0.0.0.0.60.60.1.1.0...0.0...1ac.1.E0PqQKp_TII

http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en&tab=ww#hl=en&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=ziraldo+80&oq=ziraldo+80&gs_l=hp.3...981.981.0.1552.1.1.0.0.0.0.75.75.1.1.0.les%3Beqn%2Ccconf%3D1-2%2Cmin_length%3D2%2Crate_low%3D0-035%2Crate_high%3D0-035%2Csecond_pass%3Dfalse%2Cnum_suggestions%3D2%2Cignore_bad_origquery%3Dtrue..0.0...1c.1.-3BWEmdlJ0s&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&fp=1c2aeea5b974b0a1&bpcl=35466521&biw=800&bih=382

http://www.ziraldo.com.br/
(also in Portuguese)

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ziraldo&oq=ziraldo&gs_l=youtube.3..0.734.734.0.1127.1.1.0.0.0.0.19.19.1.1.0...0.0...1ac.1.IRAyahS7ID0
(videos)

http://www.lambiek.net/artists/z/ziraldo.htm
(partly in English)


Lenona.