Mauricio de Sousa

In this Portuguese name, the first or maternal family name is Araújo and the second or paternal family name is de Sousa.

Mauricio de Sousa
Mauricio de Sousa (2015)
BornMauricio Araújo de Sousa
October 27, 1935 (1935-10-27) (age 89)
Santa Isabel
OccupationComics artist, entrepreneur, journalist, writer
WorksMonica and Friends
Awards
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Mauricio Araújo de Sousa[1] (Brazilian Portuguese: [mawˈɾisju dʒi ˈsowzɐ]; born October 27, 1935), also mononymously known as Mauricio, is a Brazilian cartoonist and businessman who has created over 200 characters for his popular series of children's comic books named Turma da Mônica (Monica and Friends).[2][3]

At 17 years of age, he worked for a daily newspaper called Folha da Manhã as a crime reporter. In 1959, Mauricio quit that job and began his comic book career, and created Monica and Friends. Mauricio's characters were inspired by children he knew from his childhood and by his own children. His later style is slightly reminiscent of that of Osamu Tezuka, a famous Japanese manga artist and personal friend.[4] Mauricio's work has garnered recogniation both in his home country and abroad, which includes a number of international awards.[5] In 2011, he was honored in the seventh edition of the Festival Internacional de Quadrinhos, at Belo Horizonte.[6]

  1. ^ "80 coisas sobre Mauricio de Sousa". Retrieved October 22, 2024.
  2. ^ Daniel Balderston; Mike Gonzalez; Ana M. López (2000). Encyclopedia of Contemporary Latin American and Caribbean. Routledge. p. 403. ISBN 9780415131889. Brazil's most famous cartoonist is Mauricio de Sousa, especially for his Turma da Mônica (1970) series, which is translated into nine languages and exported to seventeen countries, with international sales of 25 million books per month.
  3. ^ Lisa Shaw; Stephanie Dennison (2005). Pop Culture Latin America!: media, arts, and lifestyle. ABC-CLIO. p. 171. ISBN 1851095047. Sousa soon set up his own production company, and now Mauricio de Sousa Produções owns not only a successful publisher of comics but also amusement parks based on Monica and her gang and the fourth largest animation studio in the world. The toothy main character, Mônica, was based on one of Mauricio's daughters, as was one of her gang, Magali.
  4. ^ "Conrad Editora – Mauricio de Sousa fala sobre seu "grande mestre", Osamu Tezuka". Archived from the original on May 4, 2008. Retrieved March 21, 2008.
  5. ^ "Toon in Monica". Perspectives in Health – Volume 9, Number 1, 2004.
  6. ^ "Sétima edição do Festival Internacional de Quadrinhos homenageia Mauricio de Sousa". UOL. November 11, 2011. Archived from the original on October 24, 2020.