''O Pasquim'' was a Brazilian weekly

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published in

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from 1969 to the mid 1970s. It was critical of the

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and it is considered the founding periodical of Brazil's alternative press. The idea for the periodical began in 1968 after a meeting of cartoonist

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with journalists Tarso de Castro and Sérgio Cabral. They were looking for an alternative to substitute

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's tabloid ''A carapuça''. The name was Jaguar's idea, inspired in the Italian folk-tale character ''

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'', who, according to the

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, used to write and tell stories in a major public

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. As the time went by, prominent figures such as Walter Campos de Carvalho,

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, Prósperi and Fortuna joined the team.

History

''O Pasquim'' was established in 1969. The first edition was published on June 26, 1969. From an initial circulation of twenty thousand copies, the periodical jumped to two hundred thousand copies in the mid-1970s. The paper ceased publication in 1991.

Miscellaneous

The periodical was featured in an exhibition at SESC Ipiranga in 2019. All of ''O Pasquim'' issues were digitalized and can be read on the

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website.

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