The son of Abel Manta, a key painter of Portuguese Modernism, João Abel Manta is a painter and draughtsman himself. Professionally trained as an architect, and accomplished in many other creative areas such as poster design, he is mostly remembered as an outstanding and unique caricaturist and cartoonist with a very idiosyncratic style. His [...]
“Zé Povinho” is a character that originally represented a very specific class of uneducated, underprivileged “saloios” (peasants), used in a sarcastic manner to criticize those in power politically, economically and culturally. Created and christened by Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro (1846-1905), to many extents the “father” of Portuguese comics, the character appeared in 1875 in a [...]