Ziraldo Famous Brazilian Cartoonist Passed Away/1932-2024

Ziraldo Famous Brazilian Cartoonist Passed Away/1932-2024

Designer and writer Ziraldo, creator of characters such as those in “O Menino Maluquinho” and “Turma do Pererê”, has died at the age of 91. The information was confirmed by the designer's family on Saturday afternoon . Ziraldo died in his sleep, when he was at home, in an apartment in the Lagoa neighborhood, in the South Zone of Rio, around 3 pm.

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.