João Zero, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Brazilian cartoonist and illustrator journalist
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Place of Birth: São Paulo, Brazil
About João Zero
- João Zero (born August 7, 1950 in São Paulo) is a Brazilian cartoonist and illustrator journalist.
- He was the son of an old family newsstand owner from Italy. Zero Was born in São Paulo, in the area called "Bixiga" Bela Vista, on August 7, 1950.
- His paternal grandfather was Italian Polignano a Mare and his maternal grandfather was Japanese from Hiroshima.
- He started drawing in a serious way in a newspaper called "Movimento" in the 1970s, together with the twin brothers Chico and Paulo Caruso, Angeli, Bruno Liberati, Jayme Leao, Alcy, Laerte, Jota, Maringoni, Geandre and Luis Ge.
- These people used to sit by a big wooden table in one of the writing offices of the newspaper to wait for the texts to be illustrated. Censorship was widespread in Brazil when Zero started.
- In order to publish a newspaper's complete edition, it was necessary to have two editions because the censorship, used to cut a lot of articles and pictures, which was almost equivalent to half of the edition.
- This forced the editor to use the material remains for the final edition.
- The censorship cut the equivalent to a one newspaper and with the rest was made the other.
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