From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jaguar (cartoonist)
Jaguar (cartoonist)
Sérgio Jaguaribe (born February 29, 1932), known as which is concerned with offering satirical commentary
Jaguar is a Brazilian cartoonist and comics artist. He was
Jaguar, on an actual situation.[5] In the portrayal of a particular
born in Rio de Janeiro. milieu - that of bohemian 1960s Rio - he actually excelled,
A Banco do Brasil clerk, Jaguar started sketching in if only to be superseded by the demise of the same milieu.
a professional basis in 1952, when he offered the weekly The last of the Pasquim’s founders to keep on editing
magazine Manchete some cartoons loosely based on the the paper through the 1980s, when the weekly had lost
work of the French-Hungarian cartoonist André almost all of its public and influence, and Jaguar had to
François. After working for Manchete and the culture bank on the financial support of the Rio de Janeiro gov-
monthly Senhor, he became famous in the 1960s for his ernor Leonel Brizola.[6] When even that wasn’t enough,
works, among whose highlights were his illustrations to Jaguar had actually the task of closing the paper in 1991,
the collections of satirical chronicles by Sergio Porto en- something that left him personally bankrupt and sad-
titled FEBEAPÁ (acronym for "The Festival of Stupidities dened. During the 1990s, he worked as editor at the
that plagues our country" - the chronicles dealt mostly tabloid daily A Notícia.[7] In a 2001 interview, he said that
with the petty ridicules of the Military Dictatorship in "if I were a type who cared, I would have myself killed
Brazil), as well as his cartoon anthology "Átila, você é long ago".[8]
bárbaro" ("Attila, you’re barbarous![1]"). In 1969 -togeth-
er with his fellow cartoonists Millôr Fernandes, Ziraldo
and others journalistic celebrities, he founded the
References
groundbreaking satirical newspaper O Pasquim.[2] [1] "Bárbaro", besides being Portuguese for
One of his most popular creations at the time was "barbarian", at the time was also a Brazilian
the comic strip Chopiniks (from "chope", a Brazilian ver- vernacular slang for "cool"
nacular for draft beer), which was sketched by Jaguar [2] [1]
on scripts written by Ivan Lessa. Originally designed as a [3] Jaguar, interview, available at
means to advertise a new brand of beer, the strip was a [4] Jaguar, interview, available as Adobe Acrobat
satirical portrayal of the bohemian 1960s Rio de Janeiro document at
intelligentsia that gathered around the nighbourhood of [5] Jaguar, interview, Folha de S. Paulo, 13th. March
Ipanema, its chief characters being the bohemians Robe- 2007, available at [2]
spierre (from Maximilien Robespierre: the character was [6] Cf. Andréa Cristina de Barros Queiroz, "O enterro
created after a friend of Jaguar’s actually named Marat, de um folião: O Pasquim e os anos 1980", XII
for the French revolutionary) and "BD" (named after an- Encontro Regional de História, ANPUH, 2006
other friend of Jaguar’s, the bohemian Hugo Bidet), who available at [3]
had as their sidekick BD’s pet Sig (from "Sigmund"), a [7] cf. http://www.colecaoopasquim.com.br/
neurotic, debauched mouse (in the stories he’s called a organizadores.asp
rat), who had as his real life model Bidet’s pet white [8] Interview to José Maurício Costa, available at
mouse (who died after being treated to a diet of bread Persondata
crumbs drenched in vodka),[3] but was at the same time Name Jaguar
conceived as a satirical answer to Mickey Mouse. Sig was
in charge of most of the story’s comic vignettes, many of Alternative names
whom were actual bon mots who had found their way in- Short description
to Jaguar’s strip. Such is the case of the famous tag: "Int- Date of birth February 29, 1932
electuals don’t go to the beach. Intellectuals booze" (Inte-
Place of birth
lectual não vai à praia. Intelectual bebe) - a phrase attributed
by Jaguar to the journalist Paulo Francis[4] - which is re- Date of death
produced in one of the strips as being spoken by BD [4]. Place of death
In a late interview, Jaguar defined itself as a cartoon-
ist, in the Brazilian vernacular sense of a cartum maker
- cartum meaning a graphic joke based on stock models
and situations, as opposed, in Jaguar’s view, to caricature,
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