The Gibiteca Antonio Gobbo is a major public collection of comics books in Brazil. It is one of the biggest of this kind in Brazil and Latin America. It is in the city of

Belo Horizonte Belo Horizonte (, ; ) is the sixth-largest city in Brazil, with a population around 2.7 million and with a metropolitan area of 6 million people. It is the 13th-largest city in South America and the 18th-largest in the Americas. The metropol ...

, in

Minas Gerais Minas Gerais () is a state in Southeastern Brazil. It ranks as the second most populous, the third by gross domestic product (GDP), and the fourth largest by area in the country. The state's capital and largest city, Belo Horizonte (literally ...

state,

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

. The Gibiteca is located at the "Biblioteca Pública Infantil e Juvenil de

," that belongs to the "Fundação Municipal de Cultura de

" (Municipal Foundation of Culture of Belo Horizonte).

History

The Gibiteca Antonio Gobbo was founded in 1992 from the donation of the "Biblioteca Nacional de Histórias em Quadrinhos - BNHQ" (National Comics Library), private collection of

Antonio Roque Gobbo Antonio Roque Gobbo (born 9 November 1935 in São Sebastião do Paraíso, Minas Gerais, Brazil) is a writer. Writing career Gobbo began his writer career in his 60s when he began writing short stories. He created a project to publish 1,000 sho ...

Collection

The collection 2010 consists of more than 18,000 copies of many genres and theoretical material, with specimens from countries, such as France, USA, Portugal, Italy and Spain. In the collection one can find comic books, journals, albums, comics, fanzines, etc.

Activities on Gibiteca

The Gibiteca is a centre for expositions, lectures, activities, etc.

Localization

The Gibiteca is in the "Biblioteca Pública Infantil e Juvenil de Belo Horizonte" a

public library A public library is a library that is accessible by the general public and is usually funded from public sources, such as taxes. It is operated by librarians and library paraprofessionals, who are also Civil service, civil servants. There are ...

. The address is Rua Guaicurus, 50, Centro,

References

Cartooning museums Comic book collecting Libraries in Brazil Tourist attractions in Belo Horizonte Comics-related organizations Libraries established in 1992 1992 establishments in Brazil {{comics-stub