Glauco Villas Boas

Glauco Villas Boas
Born	March 10, 1957 Jandaia do Sul, Paraná, Brazil
Died	March 12, 2010 (aged 53) Osasco, São Paulo, Brazil
Occupation	Designer, cartoonist, religious leader

Glauco Villas Boas (March 10, 1957 in Jandaia do Sul, Paraná – March 12, 2010 in Osasco, São Paulo) was a Brazilian illustrator, cartoonist and religious leader. He belonged to the Villas-Bôas brothers family.

In 1976, Glauco moved to Ribeirão Preto and, after being discovered by journalist José Hamilton Ribeiro, published his first works on newspaper Diário da Manhã. One year later, he was awarded the International Humor Exhibition of Piracicaba by a jury made up of Jaguar, Millor Fernandes, Henfil and Angeli, and the 2nd Biennial of Graphic Humor and Cuba.

In 1984, invited by Angeli, he began publishing at the Ilustrada section of newspaper Folha de S. Paulo, where first appeared several of his characters, including Geraldão (created in 1981 after a reading The Teachings of Don Juan – a Yaqui way of knowledge by Carlos Castaneda). Other characters include Casal Neuras, Doy Jorge, Dona Marta and Zé do Apocalipse. For younger audiences, the weekly supplement Folhinha created the character Geraldinho, which is a light version (the dash and in the theme) of the character Geraldão.

Geraldinho had a Sega Master System video game exclusively for the Brazilian market, released by Tec Toy, it was an adaptation of Japanese game Teddy Boy Blues.

He joined the cast of writers of TV Pirata and also did some sketches for the children's show TV Colosso, both of Rede Globo, for which also developed vignettes. He edited the magazine Geraldão by Circo Editorial between 1987 and 1989 and during this period contributed to magazines Chiclete com Banana and Circus.

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