Marcello Eduardo Mouco Quintanilha Quintanilha (born 1971) is a Brazilian comic book artist. Born in

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, he first published comics in 1988, for magazines such as ''Mestre Kim'', ''General'', ''Metal Pesado'' and ''Zé Pereira'', under the pseudonym Marcelo Gaú. In 1999 he published his first graphic novel, ''Fealdade de Fabiano Gorila''. That year, during the first edition of the International Comics Festival of Belo Horizonte, he met

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, who became interested in his work and convinced him to send his drawings to European publishers. In 2003, he published ''La promesse'' the first volume of the series ''Sept balles pour Oxford'', by Belgian publishing house

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, written by Argentine writer

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and the Spanish Montecarlo. The contract with the Belgian publisher made Quintanilha move to Barcelona, to stay closer to the series' writers. He also started to publish illustrations for the Spanish newspapers ''

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'' and ''

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''. At the same time, he continued to produce albums for the Brazilian audience. For his 2009 comic ''Sábado dos meus amores'' he was awarded the HQMIX Trophy as best Brazilian artist. In 2016, he was awarded the Fauve Polar SNCF award at the 43rd

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, for his graphic novel ''Tungstène''. In 2020 he published a prose novel, ''Deserama''. In 2022, at the

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, he is awarded the Prize for Best Album for his work ''Écoute, jolie Marcia''.

Main works

First published in Brazil * 1999 - ''Fealdade de Fabiano Gorilla'' (

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) * 2005 - ''Salvador'' (Casa 21) * 2009 - ''Sábado dos meus amores'' (Conrad) * 2011 - ''Almas públicas'' (Conrad) * 2014 - ''Tungstênio'' (Veneta) * 2015 - ''Talco de vidro'' (Veneta) *2019 - ''Luzes de Niterói'' (Veneta) *2020 - ''Deserama'' (novel) *2021 - ''Escuta, formosa Márcia'' (Veneta) **English edition: ''Listen, Beautiful Márcia'' (Fantagraphics, 2023) * ''Sept balles pour Oxford series'' : :* 2003 - ''1 - La Promesse'' :* 2004 - ''2 - La Perle'' :* 2005 - ''3 - La Fuite'' :* 2006 - ''4 - L'Héritière'' :* 2007 - ''5 - Le Grillon'' :* 2009 - ''6 - Le Fantôme'' :* 2012 - ''7 - La Vulnérabilité''Quintanilha - dessinateur
. Le Lombard

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