A turma da monica

The class of mônica was created in 1960 by Mauricio de Sousa, the HQ began to be published on the mainland and passed by the publisher in April, Globe and now being published by Panini roads Comics. This week came in bunkers the first five books with strips of the class of conventional monica: The Best of Monica Strip, Cebolinha, Chico Bento, Penadinho and Bidu. Each book has 132 pages in pocket format, quarterly basis and cost $ 9.90 each.

Mauricio de Sousa

Mauricio was born in Brazil in 1935 in the city of Santa Isabel in Sao Paulo. His father Antonio Mauricio de Sousa was barber and poet and his mother, Petronilha Araujo de Sousa also wrote poetry, besides Mauritius, the couple had three more children Mariza, Maura and Marcio.Com few months of age Mauritius was living in Mogi das Cruzes where spent a part of the other childhood was lived in Sao Paulo. While studying abroad, worked on a radio, inside, where he also rehearsed song and dance numbers. To help in household budget, desenhava billboards and posters, but his dream was to be a professional designer. It is ilustraçoes to make a newspaper of Mogi but was not enough wanted to develop technical and art intão should seek major centres where publishers pudecem know and would like your work. Pegou samples of what had already done and is published and sent to Sao Paulo in search of employment. Not achieved. But there was a wave of police reporter in the newspaper Folha da Manha. And Mauritius has a test to fill the vacancy. And now, it was five years by it, but decided to run atraz his true passion. Around 1959 Mauritius has created some tirinhas on a dog and its owner (Bidu and Franjinha) and offered them to the sheet you just accepting. In the years following Mauritius create other strips as: Cebolinha, Piteco, Chico Bento. During all these years, Mauritius has developed a system of work as a team that has allowed, too, entered the licensing of products, their work began to be known abroad and magazines in several countries have emerged with the Class of Monica. In the decade of 80 emerged the Japanese cartoons, such as Mauritius had no designs for television eventually losing the markets. Then solved the challenge and opened an animation studio of the Black & White with more than 70 artists performing 8 full length movies. She was able to recover the market lost more difficulties arose because of politics and economy. Mauritius then stopped with the cartoon and has focused only on stories in comics and their merchandising, until the situation is normalizasse. What is happening now. The Class of Monica and all the other characters created by Mauricio de Sousa are there, stronger than ever, with a kind of message, cheerful, relaxed, aimed at children and adults around the world who have a few minutes to smile , Happy.