Ziraldo: biography and works

Ziraldo is not a writer and journalist. As multiple talents, or an artist he also reinvented himself as a cartoonist, painter, cartoonist, chargist and illustrator.

Com certainty you já esbarrou with a work of the long year of life - quem é que no conhece or famous Menino Maluquinho?

Find out more about a biography of the works of this impar breeder.

Biography of Ziraldo

A origin of the artist: a family and a life born in the inner city

Ziraldo Alves Pinto was born in Caratinga (interior of Minas Gerais), on October 24, 1932, filho of dona Zizinha and do seu Geraldo. Além de Ziraldo, Zizinha and Geraldo also had another film: Zélio Alves Pinto (1938), an artist, also a journalist, cartoonist and writer.

Uma curiosidade: o nome by Ziraldo is the result of an original mixture, dos nomes da mãe e de pai de artist.

With barely six years of existence, Ziraldo had an idea that was released on a non-daily basis in Folha de Minas - in 1939.

Ten years later, in 1949, he moved to Rio de Janeiro as he returned to Caratinga for two years.

Start da carreira

Years of seven years Ziraldo publishes his first cartoon in A Cigarra magazine, where he will do more collaborations) and he moves to Rio de Janeiro where he begins to disseminate his works in the publications Child Life, Youth Life and Sesinho.

During his graduation he collaborates monthly with the magazine Era uma vez. In 1954, he started a partnership as a Binômio e salary with Folha de Minas, replacing the cartoonist Borjalo.

Ascension on the road

Three years later, living in Rio de Janeiro, he started working for the O Cruzeiro magazine. His personagem Pererê faced so much success that the newspaper decided to launch a magazine dedicated to him.

In 1963 he goes to the Jornal do Brasil and, not to follow, he also works in the Pif-Paf magazine.

International career

In 1968 his work became an international success story and began to be published in foreign magazines.

Ziraldo's works have only recently been translated into English, Spanish, Italian, French, Korean and Basque.

Participation in O Pasquim

Ziraldo was two collaborators of the famous O Pasquim journal, launched in 1969, in full military status.

In an interview with Cult Ziraldo Magazine, he commented on this period of life:

Ter tido or Pasquim na minha vida to go through the chamados years of chumbo foi um privilégio. It is a valid and inserted experience without context, it is the same. (...) it was or that life could offer me so that I could continue to build at that moment.

Or income or no universe gives children's literature

From the end of two seventies, driven by the release of Flicts (1969), Ziraldo goes on to dedicate himself more to children's literature.

It is especially among the youngest who start to be recognized and start to guide their career by producing material for that specific audience.

Academic training

In 1952, Ziraldo entered the Faculdade de Direito da UFMG, where he was formed in 1957, but has been practiced in Jamaica.

To produce or use artistic material, Ziraldo did not have any kind of formal education. self-taught influenced by big hair nomes do humor like Ronald Searle, André François, Manzi and Steinberg. In terms of plastic arts, Ziraldo cites Picasso, Miró and Goya as the main influences.

Awards received by Ziraldo

Ziraldo was awarded as the Merghantaller Prize, or the Hans Cristian Andersen Prize, or the Jabuti Prize or the Caran D`Ache Prize.

He also received the Ibero-American Prize for Graphic Humor Quevedos, or the Prêmio Internacional do Salão de Caricatura de Bruxelas e o Prêmio da Imprensa Livre da América Latina.

Pessoal life

In 1958 Ziraldo married Vilma Gontijo Alves Pinto after seven years of love. O casal teve três filhos (Daniela Thomas - a filmmaker -, Fabrizia e Antônio - composer).

Vilma passed away 66 years after more than four decades of union. Abalado com a perda e sem know how to approach or assunto da morte com a neta Nina, Ziraldo escreveu or livro Menina Nina: Two reasons not to chore (2002).

Main works of Ziraldo

A long year ago, Ziraldo gave his life to a series of events. Those are the main works of him:

• Flicts (1969)
• O Menino Maluquinho (1980)
• Or Bichinho da Maçã (1982)
• O menino more beautiful in the world (1983)
• O menino marrom (1986)
• O menino quadradinho (1989)
• Menina Nina - two reasons not to chore (2002)
• You brown men (2004)
• O menino da Lua (2006)

Os personagens do Ziraldo

A turma do Pererê

The first personagem of the successor of the breeder was Pererê, protagonist of the histories in quadrinhos that was published by the magazine O Cruzeiro e ganhou a own magazine between 1960 and 1964.

To magazine A turma do Pererê It was the first magazine in Brazilian quadrinho a cores and authorship of a single breeder.

To turma do Pererê, Therefore, I am not grateful to the military regime and chegou to be censored even after the huge succession.

Ziraldo emphasizes nessa publicação - in a series of later others - Brazilian people, helping to disseminate to national culture using people from Brazilian folklore.

Some two serious personagens of him são or jabuti Moacir, the Indians Tininim and Tuiuiú and a onça Galileu.

O Menino Maluquinho

It was once a boy that tinha or older than a belly, fire no tail and vento us, some huge legs (that davam to hug or world) e macaquinhos no sótão (embora nem soubesse or that means macaquinhos no sótão). He was um menino impossível!

Or more conhecido personage of Ziraldo é, sem dúvidas, or Menino Maluquinho.

O garoto cheio de energia, quase always misunderstood by the rest of the world, walk with a panela na cabeça backing up your restlessness by where it passes.

Raised for eighty years in the format of a magazine in quadrinho, his figure has been through many different media (television, cinema and theater).

Ziraldo's interview

You would like more about the writer's course and disengagement confides in a long interview given for TV Assembleia in 2017:

Adaptations for cinema and television

Some two successes of Ziraldo foram adapted both for cinema and for television and theater.

As works adapted até o momento para o audiovisual foram: O Menino Maluquinho (1995 and 1998), Uma teacher muito maluquinha (2011) e A turma do Pererê (2018).

Relembre or trailer of the first film Menino Maluquinho:

Ziraldo quotes

All of you canalhas form unhappy children.

We are all equal, faced with problems and difficulties and problems in the country and affectionate conditions.

There is no humor without a certain cruelty, but there is a lot of cruelty without humor.

Quem not come to life in the jump, I do not know or like what to jump, the adult person and the physical logo velhinha, depois, no sei mais or what happens.

Adult lives tendo saudades gives life that passou. Criança tem saudades do Futuro.

Conheça also

• Os melhores livros infantis da Brazilian literature
• Histórias Infantis: commented contos for crianças
• Famous poems that children are going to adore