Jô Oliveira

Jô Oliveira was born in Itamaracá - Pernambuco, and attended the School of Fine Arts in Rio de Janeiro. He is a journalist and illustrator, as well as an art teacher. He has also studied Visual Communication in Hungary, where he drew his book 'Bumba Meu Boi' in 1975.

He has published several albums in his home country in the years that followed, including 'A Guerro do Reino Divino', 'Compare Gatto Impara la Lezione', 'As Aventuras da Família Tamanduá', 'A Lenda da Noite' and 'O Pavão Misterioso'. For the Italian market, he drew 'L'Uomo di Canudos' in the collection 'Un Uomo un'avventura' for Cepim (1979). Oliveira is additionally the artist of books about Roosevelt and Maurice of Nassau. For the Italian magazine Corto Maltese, he has drawn the story 'Madeira-Mamoré Railway Company' (1984) and the 64-page color story 'Un Avventuriero del Nuovo Mondo' (1989).