postcard of the 31st Diamond Pepper Festival
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Artist
Biography
Born in Recife (Pernambuco/Brazil) in 1952.
First cartoon publications at age 17 in The Pine Cone newspaper (Arkansas, USA).
Illustrator of educational material at the Meira Lins Course in 1971/72, where he was also a teacher of English for Brazilians and Portuguese for exchange students at Antioch College.
In 1973 he recorded with Lula Côrtes the instrumental album SATWA, re-released in the United States by Time-Lag Records in 2005 and in England by Mr Bongo Records in 2011.
He was art director for the main advertising agencies in Pernambuco, later becoming a freelance illustrator. He debuted in the Pernambuco press in 1975 with a two-page comic report in Jornal da Cidade. The following year he was one of the founders of the humor page O PAPA-FIGO in Jornal da Semana. He became a cartoonist for Diario de Pernambuco in 1977, publishing a daily cartoon in that journal for 27 years. Awarded in Brazil and abroad, he was the creator of the International Festival of Humor and Comics of Pernambuco (FIHQ-PE).
In addition to his activity as a cartoonist, he is also a musician and composer, having participated in the bands that gave rise to the blues scene in Recife in the 90s and still performs today with the band LAILSON & FRIENDS.
In 2001, he opened his company LHC Associados, focused on creating specialized communication content, carrying out cultural projects, licensing and reproduction rights for his works, serving public agencies and private companies such as the Pernambuco Traffic Department/DETRAN-PE, Companhia Energética de Pernambuco/CELPE, Instituto Miguel Arraes, Government of Pernambuco, Cabo de Santo Agostinho City Hall, construction company Moura Dubeux and the ODEBRECHT Group.
