Ziraldo’s body will be laid to rest at MAM this Sunday

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Cartoonist and designer died at the age of 91, this Saturday afternoon (6), at home, of natural causes. The wake is scheduled for 10am this Sunday (7). Burial will be in the afternoon. Ziraldo dies at the age of 91 The body of designer and writer Ziraldo will be laid to rest at 10 am this Sunday (7) at the Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro (MAM), at Avenida Infante Dom Henrique, 85, Parque do Flamengo, in the South Zone. The event will be open to the public. The burial is scheduled for 4:30 pm, at the São João Batista Cemetery, in Botafogo, in the South Zone. The ceremony was initially scheduled to take place at the Brazilian Press Association (ABI), in the Center, but the family decided to change the location. Creator of characters such as those in “O Menino Maluquinho” and “Turma do Pererê”, Ziraldo died at the age of 91 at home, sleeping, of natural causes. The information was confirmed by the designer’s family on Saturday afternoon (6). Also a cartoonist, caricaturist and journalist, he was one of the founders in the 1960s of the newspaper “O Pasquim”, one of the main vehicles to combat the military dictatorship in Brazil. PHOTOS: see images of Ziraldo VIDEOS: Remember moments from Ziraldo’s career See the repercussions of Ziraldo’s death Father of unforgettable characters, Ziraldo published his first drawing at the age of 6 Ziraldo Alves Pinto was born on October 24, 1932 in Caratinga (MG), where spent his childhood. The oldest in a family with seven siblings, he was baptized from the combination of his mother’s name (Zizinha) and his father’s name (Geraldo). An avid reader since childhood, he had his first drawing published when he was just six years old, in 1939, in the newspaper “A Folha de Minas”. See photos of Ziraldo’s career below: PHOTOS: see images of Ziraldo He began his career in the 1950s, in the magazine “Era uma vez…”. In 1954, he started to write a humor page in the same “A Folha de Minas” in which he had debuted. In 1957, he graduated in Law from the Faculty of Law of Minas Gerais, in Belo Horizonte. In the same year, he joined the team of the magazines “A Cigarra” and, later, “O Cruzeiro”. In 1958, he married Vilma Gontijo, his girlfriend of seven years. They had three children, Daniela, Fabrizia and Antônio. In the following decade, he stood out for also working at “Jornal do Brasil”. As in “O Cruzeiro”, he published political cartoons and cartoons. The characters Jeremias, the Good, Supermãe and Mineirinho are from this period. Nelson Motta dedicates the column to Ziraldo, author of “O Menino Maluquinho”. During this period, he was finally able to fulfill a “childhood dream”. He became an author of comic books and published the first Brazilian magazine of its kind with a single author, about the “Turma do Pererê”. ‘O Menino Maluquinho’: film of Ziraldo’s work is on Globoplay The characters were a small Indian and several animals that form the Brazilian folkloric universe, such as the jaguar, the tortoise, the armadillo, the rabbit and the owl. The magazine stopped being published in 1964, following the beginning of the military regime. Five years later, Ziraldo founded, with other comedians, “O Pasquim”. With acidic texts, mocking illustrations and unforgettable characters, such as Graúna, Fradins or Ubaldo, the weekly newspaper joined the fight for democracy. Ziraldo Disclosure At the same time as they were fighting censorship, Millôr, Henfil, Jaguar, Tarso de Castro, Sérgio Cabral, Ivan Lessa, Sérgio Augusto and Paulo Francis, among other contributors to the newspaper, suffered from it. One day after the AI-5, downloaded on December 13, 1968, Ziraldo was arrested at home and taken to Copacabana Fort. In 1969, he published his first children’s book, “FLICTS”. In 1979, he began to dedicate himself to literature for children. His biggest hit, “O Menino Maluquinho”, came out in 1980. It is considered one of the biggest phenomena in the Brazilian publishing market of all time. The giant mural Última Supper, painted in 1967 by Ziraldo, which was hidden in the old Canecão concert hall, will be restored by UFRJ and open to public visits from April Fernando Frazão/Agência Brasil

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