Danilo Beyruth (born 1973) is a Brazilian comics artist.

Life and career

Beyruth was born in

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. He got a degree in industrial design, and started his career doing advertising illustrations. In 2006, he did classes on perspective and comics narrative at Quanta Academia de Artes, an art school in São Paulo, and by the

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correspondence course. In the following year, he published his first comic book, ''Necronauta'', initially, as a zine, and later as a mobile phone comic distributed by the phone carrier Oi , and then as two

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published in 2010–11 in Brazil. In 2010, Beyruth pledged and got funding of the

State's Secretary of Culture program ''ProAC - Programa de Ação Cultural'', to publish a

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. He published ''Bando de dois'', a story of two cangaceiros, the only survivors of their outlaw band. In 2012, Beyruth published '' Astronauta – Magnetar'', a graphic novel based on the

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created by

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, under the label

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. Beyruth would draw another three Astronauta books: ''Astronauta – Singularidade'' (2014), ''Astronauta – Assimetria'' (2016) and ''Astronauta - Entropia'' (2018). He also drew the graphic novel ''São Jorge'' based in

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for

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. Beyruth participated of the Stephen Lindsay's 2007 series ''

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'' and of

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' anthology '' Popgun'' #3 (2009) with a Necronauta (Deathnaut) story. In 2015 he worked on

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's ''

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'', drawing issues #1 to #4. He also pencilled the titles '' Deadpool v. Gambit'' (2016) and ''

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'' (2016). He created the

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for the film Motorrad by Vincente Amorim,Com orçamento de R$ 6 mi, 'Motorrad' aposta em terror e ação
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References

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Beyruth, Danilo Living people 1973 births Brazilian comics artists People from São Paulo Prêmio Angelo Agostini winners