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)
Born
Maurício Araújo de Souza 27 October 1935 Santa Isabel
Occupation
Comics artist, entrepreneur, journalist, writer
Works
Monica and Friends
Awards
Ordem do Mérito Cultural (2004)
Order of Ipiranga (2010)
Prêmio Angelo Agostini for Master of National Comics (1993)
Signature
Maurício Araújo de Sousa (Portuguese:[mawˈɾisjudʒiˈsowzɐ]; born October 27, 1935) 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" or "Monica's Gang".[1][2]
At 17 years of age, he worked for a daily newspaper called Folha da Manhã as a crime reporter. In 1959, Sousa quit that job and began his comic book career, and created Monica's Gang. Sousa'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.[3]
De Sousa's work has garnered recogniation both in his home country and abroad, which includes a number of international awards.[4] In 2011, he was honored in the seventh edition of the Festival Internacional de Quadrinhos, at Belo Horizonte.[5]
^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.
^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 Sousa's daughters, as was one of her gang, Magali.
^"Conrad Editora – Mauricio de Sousa fala sobre seu "grande mestre", Osamu Tezuka". Archived from the original on May 4, 2008. Retrieved March 21, 2008.
^"Toon in Monica". Perspectives in Health – Volume 9, Number 1, 2004.
^"Sétima edição do Festival Internacional de Quadrinhos homenageia Mauricio de Sousa". UOL. November 11, 2011. Archived from the original on October 24, 2020.
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