Ota (cartoonist)

Otacílio Costa d’Assunção Barros (July 4, 1954 – September 24, 2021), better known as Ota, was a Brazilian journalist, cartoonist, comics artist and editor.

Ota
Died24 September 2021 Edit this on Wikidata
Awards
Websitehttp://www.ota.com.br/ Edit this on Wikidata

Biography

He was born in Rio de Janeiro, and started his career in 1970 at Editora Brasil-América Limitada (EBAL), then the largest Brazilian comic book publishing house. He also published independent comics in the 1970s, such as the comic strip Os Birutas. In 1974, working at Vecchi publishing house, he became editor of the Brazilian edition of Mad magazine, a position he continued to hold in other publishing houses that published Mad: Record (1984–2000), Mythos (2000–2006) and Panini (2008). He left the magazine after the seventh edition of the Panini's version due to creative differences with Raphael Fernandes, who took care of the foreign material (Ota was only editor of the national material in Panini's Mad). Ota won the Troféu HQ Mix as best writer in 1995 and the Prêmio Angelo Agostini as "Master of the National Comics" in 2003.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

Ota was found dead on September 24, 2021, in his apartment in Tijuca, near Rio de Janeiro.[7][8]

References
  1. "Ota". Comiclopedia.
  2. "Revista "Mad" volta a circular no Brasil na próxima semana" (in Portuguese). Folha de S.Paulo. March 26, 2008.
  3. "Ota deixa a 'MAD' brasileira e promete leiloar coleção particular" (in Portuguese). G1. October 15, 2008.
  4. "O mundo de Ota" (in Portuguese). Folha de S.Paulo. March 16, 2011.
  5. "Cartunista Ota lança hoje o livro virtual 'A garota bipolar – o começo de tudo'" (in Portuguese). O Globo. November 24, 2016.
  6. "Ex-editor da revista "Mad" no Brasil vende gibis para "não morrer de fome"" (in Portuguese). UOL. July 4, 2019.
  7. Wright, Beatrice (September 25, 2021). "Cartoonist Ota, famous for Mad magazine, dies at 67". Lodi Valley News.com. Retrieved September 26, 2021.
  8. "Cartunista Ota é encontrado morto em casa no Rio". G1 (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved September 24, 2021.
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