who is ziraldo

Life of Ziraldo:

 Ziraldo Alves Pinto was born in October 24, 1932, in Caratinga, Minas Gerais. IS the eldest of a family of seven brothers and sisters. Its name comes from combining the names of his mother, Zizinha, with his father, Geraldo. Thus arose the Zi-raldo, a unique name.

A year after he finished college he married Vilma Gontijo, after seven years of dating. Ziraldo has three sons - Daniela, Fabrízia and Antonio - and six grandchildren.

 The career of Ziraldo began in magazine was Once ... with monthly collaborations. In 1954 he began to work in the Official Sheet of Minas Gerais, with a page of humor. By coincidence, the same newspaper that published, in 1939, its first drawing, when he was only six years of age.

However, due to the diversity of his work, it is not possible just limiting it to graphic arts. IS an artist who has, over the years, developed several facets of his talent. Ziraldo is also painter, cartazista, journalist, playwright, cartoonist, cartoonist and writer.

It was also in the 1960s that held his dream playground: it has become a writer in comics and published the first Brazilian journal of its kind made by a single author, gathering a group headed by saci-perere,

Most important figure of the Brazilian imagination. The characters of this class were a small indian and several animals that form the universe Brazilian folklore, such as the jaguar, the Jabuti, tatu, the rabbit and the owl. The Class of Perere marked an era in the trajectory of comics in Brazil.