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Like most teenagers in the world, Joso
Montanaro, a teen artist in Brazil likes reading and drawing cartoons. But he
is special—his drawings get published.
Montanaro is now drawing cartoons for
Folha. Folha is Brazil's newspaper and is known for its cartoons.
Montanaro has already been
working at Folha for two years. Each week he draws two, three or four cartoons
and sends them to the paper. From those editors choose one for the next day's
page. Montanaro draws about the news of the day. Recently he worked on The
Wave—a drawing of the tsunami (海啸) that hit
Japan. Montanaro also likes to draw cartoons about the funny things that happen
in Brazilian politics (政治).
"I like doing political drawings
because you can joke about somebody bigger than you," Montanaro says.
Folha's art director Mario Kanno says
editors saw something new and different in Montanaro's works. "We brought
him in with this idea to show that, yes, young people also read newspapers and
can show their ideas on politics," Kanno says.
Montanaro's love for cartoons began when he
was only 7 or 8 years old. His dad bought him comics. Montanaro says these
books gave him the ideas that got him drawing. "I think those great works
have really helped me," he says. "They remind me that I should draw
something in my book every day."