Laerte

Quick Facts

Full Name	Laerte
Occupation	Cartoonist
Date Of Birth	Jun 10, 1951(1951-06-10)
Age	73
Birthplace	São Paulo
Country	Brazil
Horoscope	Gemini

Laerte Biography

Laerte is one of the most popular and richest Cartoonist who was born on June 10, 1951 in São Paulo, Brazil. Laerte Coutinho (born 10 June 1951), known mainly as simply Laerte, is a Brazilian cartoonist and screenwriter, known for creating comic strips such as Piratas do Tietê (Pirates of the Tietê River).

At the end of the 1980s, she published comic strips for magazines such as Chiclete com Banana (edited by Angeli), Geraldão (edited by Glauco) and Circo, all by Circo publishing house, who would later launch her solo magazine Piratas do Tietê. In 1985 she released her first book, O Tamanho da Coisa, a collection of her cartoons. In 1991 Folha de S. Paulo began publishing her Piratas do Tietê comic strips. She regularly releases albums with collections of her strips, mainly published by Devir Livraria and L&PM Pocket.

Assigned male at birth, she came out in 2009 as a crossdresser and later as a transgender woman. In 2012 she was a founding member of the Associação Brasileira de Transgê[email protected] (“Brazilian Association of Transgender People”). She contributed to the Google Doodle for International Women’s Day 2018 by creating a short comic about a man and a transgender woman falling in love.

In the same year she began producing campaign material for the Brazilian Democratic Movement during the elections. The following year she worked in the production of cards of solidarity in the movement of aid to political prisoners. In 1978 she drew stories featuring the character João Ferrador for the publication of the metalworkers’ union in São Bernardo do Campo. She later found the Oboré agency specialized in producing communication materials for unions. The company published her book Illustration Union (1986), with a thousand illustrations, comics, and cartoons released for use by unions and other organizations. She did media coverage for FIFA World Cups: those of 1978 (for the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo), 1982 (for Folha de S. Paulo),and 1986 (for O Estado de S. Paulo).

Laerte Net Worth

Laerte is one of the richest Cartoonist from Brazil. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Laerte 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

In 1968 Laerte completed the Free Course of Drawing of the Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado. In 1969 she began to study journalism at the University of São Paulo but did not complete the course.

She created the character Leão for the magazine Sibila in 1970. During the 1970s, while a student at USP’s Escola de Comunicações e Artes (School for Communications and Arts), she worked for the magazines Banas and Placar, and founded – with Luiz Gê – the magazine Balão. In 1974 she did her first work for a newspaper, Gazeta Mercantil.

She was part of the Brazilian underground comics scene of the 1980s. Together with Angeli and Glauco (and later Adão Iturrusgarai) she drew the collaborative comic strip Los Três Amigos [pt] . She has done work for publications such as Balão, O Pasquim, and Chiclete com Banana magazines, and draws regularly for Folha de S. Paulo newspaper. Since the mid 2000s, her strips have become more “philosophical” and less humor-focused, relying less on recurring characters.

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Laerte Ranked on the list of most popular Cartoonist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Brazil. Laerte celebrates birthday on June 10 of every year.