Mariza Dias Costa (October 16, 1952 – March 29, 2019) was a Guatemalan-Brazilian political cartoonist and illustrator who influenced her genre with her novel approach.
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Born | October 16, 1952 |
Died | March 29, 2019 |
Known for | political cartoons |
Life
editCosta is said to have been born in Guatemala,[1] but other sources say she was born in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil.[2] Her father was Mário Dias Costa, a diplomat. She lived in Switzerland, Peru, Italy, France, Paraguay, and Iraq before establishing in Brazil.[3]
She received an "acquisition award" at the 3ª Mostra de Artes Visuais do Estado do Rio de Janeiro in 1974.[4] She found her niche in the same year illustrating the "Court Diary" column of Paulo Francis in the Folha de S.Paulo leading Brazilian national newspaper. She continued in this partnership until 1990.[5] She had to work fast as she would receive the text for the column and the space was already identified for her illustration.[6] In 1999 she returned to the Folha de S.Paulo newspaper to illustrate the Thursday column of the psychoanalyst Contardo Calligaris.[5]
In the late 1970s her work appeared in Mad magazine[7] and in 2008 she exhibited her work in the "Ilustradores" at the Instituto Itaú.[8]
Works (incomplete)
editCosta provided the illustrations for 'Os Incríveis Seres Fantásticos' in 1996[9]
Acknowledgement and death
editShe is noted as a cartoonist veteran because she worked under the Brazilian military dictatorship.[10] In 2013 her work was published in a retrospective book titled ""... And Then the Crazy Is Me!". The introduction to her book said that the political cartoonist genre was split into two sections. The part before Costa and the part after her work was seen.[5]
Costa died in São Paulo. She was taken ill on the street and she was taken by ambulance to the hospital but she did not survive.[11]
References
edit- ^ Cultural, Instituto Itaú. "Mariza Dias Costa". Enciclopédia Itaú Cultural (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2020-01-08.
- ^ "Mariza Dias Costa | Guia dos Quadrinhos". www.guiadosquadrinhos.com. Retrieved 2020-01-08.
- ^ "MARIZA… E DEPOIS A MALUCA SOU EU!". ofolhademinas.com.br (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2020-01-08.
- ^ Cultural, Instituto Itaú. "3ª Mostra de Artes Visuais do Estado do Rio de Janeiro". Enciclopédia Itaú Cultural (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2020-01-08.
- ^ a b c "Morre a ilustradora Mariza Dias Costa, aos 66 anos". tribunaonline.com.br (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2020-01-08.
- ^ Genêros jornalísticos na Folha de S. Paulo (in Portuguese). Departamento de Jornalismo e Editoração, Escola de Comunicações e Artes, Universidade de São Paulo. 1987. p. 56. ISBN 9788532207906.
- ^ "Capas de revistas com trabalhos de Mariza Dias Costa | Guia dos Quadrinhos". www.guiadosquadrinhos.com. Retrieved 2020-01-08.
- ^ Cultural, Instituto Itaú. "Ilustradores". Enciclopédia Itaú Cultural (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2020-01-08.
- ^ Meserani, Samir; Costa, Mariza Dias (1993). Os incríveis seres fantásticos. ISBN 8532209807.
- ^ "Encontro na Quanta: foi lindo! | Lady\'s Comics" (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2020-01-08.
- ^ "Morre a ilustradora Mariza Dias Costa, aos 66 anos". Folha de S.Paulo (in Brazilian Portuguese). 2019-03-29. Retrieved 2020-01-08.