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AMORIM - Brazil
Carlos Alberto da Costa AMORIM was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1964. He started to publish his works in 1984 at Pasquim, an humoristical newspaper. Actually he publishes his editorials cartoons, caricatures and comics strips in many brazilian newspapers and magazines. He produced humour texts for the television net Rede Globo (1994) and he is author of a cartoon book called Canastra Suja (1991).
* Member of Good Humor Party :-)
His caricatures won the XIII Festival International du Dessin Humoristique (Anglet, France, 1991) and had honor mentions at the Salao Carioca de Humor (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1991, 1992, 1993 e 1995) and Bienal Internacional de Humor (Havana, Cuba, 1995). His cartoons won the first award in the following brazilian humour salons: Festival lnternational du Dessín Humoristique (Anglet, France, 1991); XIII Salao Internacional de Humor (Piracicaba, Brazil, 1986), Popular Jury Prize in International Salon of Humour (Piracicaba, Brazil, 1998); Salao de Humor de Campina Grande (Paraíba, Brazil, 1989), Bienal Internacional de Histórias em Quadrinhos (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1991) and Salao de Humor de Goiânia (Goiânia, Brazil, 1993,1994), besides the honor mentions in the
IV Festival Acquaviva nei Fumetti, (Acquaviva Picena, Italy, 1999); Okhotsk lnternational Cartoon Exhibition (Hokkaido, Japan, 1998); FanoFunny Festival (Fano, Italy, 1996); Salon Karicature Cvorak (Bjelovar, Croatia, 1996); lnternational Biennial of Humour (Havana, Cuba, 1995); Salao Carioca de Humor (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1995); Eurohumor (Cuneo, ltaly, 1994); Salao Carioca de Humor (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1992); Salao de Humor de Niterói (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1985).
Amorim was member of the jury of the III Tehran Cartoon Biennial (Tehran, Iran, 1997) and participares with regularity of the Humor Salons in Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cuba, France, Germany, lran, Israel, ltaly, Japan, Korea, Macedonia, Mexico, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Spain and Turkey.
Amorim website.
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