Millôr Fernandesa

Cartoonist and playwright, at the age of ten he sold his first drawing to the "O Jornal" daily, of the former State of Guanabara (now Rio de Janeiro).

Together with Steinberg, he won the first prize at an exhibition organized by the Museum of Caricature, in Buenos Aires in 1955. He also won the second prize at the Canadian Humor Exhibition (1963), and was awarded a special room at the Triennial Caricature Exhibition in Tolentino, Italy. In 1957, the Rio de Janeiro Museum of Modern Art displayed over thirty of his humoristic pen-and-ink drawings at an exhibition presented by Antônio Houaiss.

He also participated hors-concours in the second Annual Exhibition in Curitiba, in 1961.

In his own words: "The basis of my working philosophy is to seek in each gesture of life the most important element of the human spirit, the sense of playfulness."