The cartoonist, cartoonist and journalist Ziraldo, creator of ‘Menino Maluquinho’, author of books such as ‘Flicts’ and of the newspaper ‘O Pasquim’, has died at the age of 91
The world of comics in Brazil is in mourning. Ziraldo dies at the age of 91, while he was sleeping in his home, in Rio de Janeiro, around 3pm this Saturday (6). Ziraldo was the creator of “Menino Maluquinho”, adapted for cinema, “Bichinho da Maçã” and “Turma do Pererê”. A the death of the caricaturist and cartoonist is a casualty in the artistic world in 2024together with Jandira Martini and Quinho do Salgueiro.
In addition to these characters, Ziraldo founded “O Pasquim”, a humorous newspaper born in the 1960s in the midst of military dictatorship and which received a new version in the 2000s. The writer, designer and journalist had suffered a stroke in September 2018, five years later undergo a catheterization while traveling in Germany.
The career of Ziraldo, who died at the age of 91, is worth remembering
Miner from Caratinga and eldest in a family of seven brothers, Ziraldo Alves Pinto was born on 24 October 1932 and his name comes from the combination of the names of his mother, Zizinha, and his father, Geraldo. At the age of six Ziraldo saw his first drawing published in the newspaper “A Folha de Minas”.
In addition to his passion for drawing, his strong relationship with reading has accompanied him since childhood. In the 1950s the same periodical began to have Ziraldo as a columnist on a humor page. Shortly before that, his career had even begun in the magazine “Era Uma Vez …”.
Still in Minas, he graduated in Law in the late 1950s, practically in the same period in which he married Vilma Gontijo after seven years of dating. D…
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