Ziraldo Alves Pinto

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Ziraldo Alves Pinto is a Brazilian author, painter, comic creator, and journalist born in Minas Gerais on October 24, 1932. He is normally known just as "Ziraldo." His books have sold about ten million copies, have been translated to many foreign languages and adapted to the theater and cinema.

He and other progresist artists created the non-conformist comic "O Pasquim" during a period of military dictatorship in Brazil.

His children's books have also been the basis of successful animated films and television series in Brazil.