Brazilian Comics Artists - Carlos Zefiro, Mauricio de Sousa, Mike Deodato, Ed Benes, Luiz Eduardo de Oliveira, Roger Cruz, Ivan Reis (Paperback)

Chapters: Carlos Zefiro, Mauricio de Sousa, Mike Deodato, Ed Benes, Luiz Eduardo de Oliveira, Roger Cruz, Ivan Reis, Angelo Agostini, Marcelo Cassaro, Gabriel Ba, Tiago Carneiro Da Cunha, Fabio Moon, Joe Bennett, Eduardo Francisco, Renato Guedes, Al Rio, Erica Awano, Adriana Melo, Daniel Hdr, Ziraldo Alves Pinto, Lourenco Mutarelli. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 72. 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: Carlos Zefiro is the pseudonym for Alcides Aguiar Caminha (September 26, 1921 - July 5, 1992), a famous Brazilian comic artist who drew pornographic comics, born in Rio de Janeiro. Alcides Aguiar Caminha was born in Sao Cristovao, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He was a public employee and lived most time of his life in Anchieta, a neighborhood in the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro. As a secondary job, he used to draw pornographic comics, signed with pseudonym Carlos Zefiro. His small publications became famous and very popular in Brazil, circulating in the underground scene during 1950 to 1980. While popular, Zefiro's pornographic comics would sell more than 30,000 numbers at once. His publications were known as "catechisms" and were sold illegally. Getting the "catechisms" was not easy. The journeymen used to sell it only for close consumers. Places attended just by men, like barbershops, were also points of distribution. It was common for boys to borrow the comics from their friends at school. After being read, the books were generally discarded. It is estimated that Carlos Zefiro created more than 800 different titles. His production was independent and never linked to publishers, except when it represented an illegal activity. Carlos Zefiro drew at his home in Rio de Janeiro and close friends printed and distributed the "catechisms" over the country, sometimes going abroad to cities in Uru...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=2426923