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Glauco Vilas Boas (Jandaia do Sul, Paraná, 1957 – Osasco, São Paulo, 2010). Carticaturist, cartoonist, and comic artist. Self-taught, he started drawing in his teens, making caricatures of his teachers and classmates. In the early 1970s, he moved to Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, with the aim of studying engineering. He meets journalist José Hamilton Ribeiro (1935) – director of the newspaper Diário da Manhã –, who publishes his first work in 1976. He comes into contact with the work of cartoonists Henfil (1944 -1988) and Ziraldo (1932) . The following year, he receives an award at the Piracicaba International Humor Exhibition and begins to publish his strips in the supplements Lugar and Folhetim of the newspaper Folha de S.Paulo .
In 1981, he independently edited the book Minorias do Glauco , in which the characters Geraldão and Dona Marta appear. From 1987 to 1994, he published a selection of cartoons Abobrinhas da Brasilônia (1985) and the magazines Geraldão , Geraldão Segunda Dentição and Geraldão 90 cm , published by Circo. , Vicente Tarente and Zé do Apocalipse. During that same period, he collaborated with the magazine Chiclete com Banana alongside cartoonists Angeli (1956) , then editor, and Laerte (1951) . With them he creates the series Los Três Amigos, presented in the same publication and later collected in two volumes in the early 1990s.
In the same decade, he participated in the conception and scripting of the programs TV Pirata and TV Colosso , on Rede Globo. The collaboration lasted until 1997. In 2000, he created the characters Ficadinha and Netão for the UOL Humor station. He publishes, through Devir, the compilations Política Zero – A Crise nas Charges da Folha de S.Paulo (2005) and Seis Mãos Bobas (2006).
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