Brazilian Comic Strips - Monica's Gang, Combo Rangers, N Quel N Usea (Paperback)

Chapters: Monica's Gang, Combo Rangers, N quel N usea. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 24. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Monica's Gang (originally titled Turma da M nica in Portuguese) is a popular Brazilian comic book series. The series was created by Mauricio de Sousa, who signs his work as "Mauricio." Plots are centered on the adventures of a group of seven-year-old friends in the fictional neighborhood of "Limoeiro" in S o Paulo. The neighborhood was inspired by the neighborhood of Cambu, in Campinas and the city of Mogi das Cruzes, where de Sousa lived his childhood. Mauricio began his comic universe in 1959 with a newspaper comic strip titled Bidu, printed on Folha da Manh, the newspaper where Mauricio worked as police reporter. Cebolinha followed in 1960. The character M nica first saw the light of day in 1963. Comic books featuring the characters started appearing: "Bidu" (1960 - cancelled after a few editions), M nica (1970), Cebolinha (1972), and many more. The stories have been translated to several languages and sold in dozens of countries. The series has been running steadily for over forty years, and generated uncountable spin-offs in the realms of merchandising, animated cartoons, video games, theme parks, and more. Mauricio employs a large staff on his company Est dios Mauricio de Sousa to execute these projects. The characters are drawn in a simple cartoon style and the stories often finish with a happy ending. In the end of each comic book, there are three panels with a quick joke, such as newspaper strips. Compared with the Peanuts characters, Monica's gang is less reflective and a bit more fantastic, less psychological and more active. Characters often break the fourth wall, acknowledging they are performing or even talking to the writers from inside the pa...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=597751