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Biography
Frederico Ozanan Pinto Gomes Pereira, better known as Fred Ozanan (Campina Grande,[when?]), is a Brazilian cartoonist, journalist, and graphic designer. He held the record for awards at the Piracicaba Humor Exhibition (1992, 1993, 1994, 1995 and 1996) and in 1997 he was honored by UNIMEP, becoming part of the award jury from 1998 onwards. Brazil, National Humor Foundation and Iberoamerican Union of Graphic Humorists.
He was the founder of the National Humor Exhibition in Campina Grande; Curator of the Piauí International Humor Salon in 2000 (the year that won HQMIX as the best salon in Brazil) and 2001.
He started at the newspaper Gazeta do Sertão and worked at Diário da Borborema, Jornal de Alagoas, O Norte, Correio da PB and several newspapers, including Pasquim. He also worked as a cartoonist for Portal UOL and publishes political cartoons on the sites Charge on Line, Brazil Cartoon and PBONLINE.
He released ten humor books, having won the 12th HQ Mix Trophy, in the category “Livro de Charges”, for the work "Falando Sério" (published by UFPB / 1999). The following year, he released the book "Paraíba e Piauí no Cartoon", winning once again the HQ MIX Trophy in the Cartoon Book category.
Other books by Fred Ozanan are: “Who said that Brazil is not funny?” (publisher of UFPB/1997); “Rio de Lágrimas-a very dry vision of the Northeast (2000)” Electoral Zone(2004)”; “Brazil in White and Black (2005)”; “Health in Brazil has no medicine (2008)”; Rio de Lágrimas: transposition, from drama to fiction” “Que Cara é Essa?” (book of caricatures drawn with the mouse, publisher Latus/2013) and “Jogo Sujo se Lava a Jato” (2018).
For more than 15 years he developed voluntary work in public schools in several states of the federation. Several of his works are featured in textbooks and were used as the subject of college entrance exams.
In 2018 Fred Ozanan donated his collection of the Pasquim newspaper to the National Press Museum in the city of Porto, Portugal.
