Jayme Cortez ( Lisbon, September 8th, 1926 -

São Paulo São Paulo (, ; Portuguese for ' Saint Paul') is the most populous city in Brazil, and is the capital of the state of São Paulo, the most populous and wealthiest Brazilian state, located in the country's Southeast Region. Listed by the Ga ...

, July 4th, 1987) was a Portuguese-born Brazilian

comics artist A cartoonist is a visual artist who specializes in both drawing and writing cartoons (individual images) or comics (sequential images). Cartoonists differ from comics writers or comic book illustrators in that they produce both the literary a ...

. He is considered one of the most important artists of

Brazilian comics Brazilian comics (known in Brazilian Portuguese as ''HQs, gibis, revistinhas, historietas'', ''quadrinhos'' or ''tirinhas'') started in the 19th century, adopting a satirical style known as cartoon, charges or caricature that would later be cemen ...

. He was born in

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and began his career in the Portuguese magazine ''O Mosquito''. He emigrated to Brazil in 1947, and began working with horror and children's comics. In 1959, he founded the Continental publishing house alongside Miguel Penteado, working with important artists such as Rodolfo Zalla, Eugênio Colonnese,

Gedeone Malagola Gedeone Malagola (São Paulo, July 7th, 1924 - Jundiaí, September 15th, 2008) was a Brazilian comics artist and editor. He started his career in the 1940s, drawing for the newspaper A Marmita. He worked for several comic book publishers until he ...

, Júlio Shimamoto , Flávio Colin, among others. In 1985, Cortez was awarded the

Prêmio Angelo Agostini for Master of National Comics Master of National Comics ( pt-BR, Mestre do Quadrinho Nacional) is one of the categories of Prêmio Angelo Agostini, the most traditional Brazilian award dedicated to comics that has been held since 1985 by Associação dos Quadrinhistas e Caric ...

, an award that aims to honor artists who have dedicated themselves to Brazilian comics for at least 25 years. In 1988, a year after his death, the Prêmio Angelo Agostini created the Jayme Cortez Trophy to award great contributions to Brazilian comics.

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