Ivan Saidenberg (November 12, 1940 – September 30, 2009) was a Brazilian comics artist, writer and cartoonist.

Career

Saidenberg began his career in 1960 at the Outubro publishing house, where he worked until 1963 creating horror comics. Later he also worked at Taika and Royal publishing houses with comics and westerns, war and espionage. In 1971, he started working at

editora Abril Editora Abril is a major Brazilian publisher and printing company and one of the biggest media holdings in Latin America. The company was founded in 1950 by Victor Civita in São Paulo and is now part of Grupo Abril. Overview Civita had initiall ...

with

Disney comics Disney comics are comic books and comic strips featuring characters created by the Walt Disney Company, including Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Scrooge McDuck. The first Disney comics were newspaper strips appearing from 1930 on, starting with t ...

, being one of the most prolific Brazilian authors of Disney stories. In 1973 he created the character The Red Bat (), Fethry Duck's superhero alter ego. The character was quite successful in Brazil, but had few stories published abroad (mostly in

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, where he was named Paper Bat, and in

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). In 1975, he created The Green Bat () with

Renato Canini Renato Vinícius Canini (February 22, 1936 — October 30, 2013) was a Brazilian illustrator, known for his work in publications like ''O Pasquim'' and ''Pancada'', and for Editora Abril, where he drew Disney comics, chiefly José Carioca. He gave ...

(also a superhero version of

José Carioca José "Zé" Carioca (; ) is a cartoon anthropomorphism, anthropomorphic parrot created by the Brazilian cartoonist J. Carlos, José Carlos de Brito (J. Carlos) and shown to Walt Disney on his trip to Rio de Janeiro in 1941. The Walt Disney Compa ...

), as well as the vast majority of secondary characters in the comic book ''Zé Carioca'', which was published in Brazil from 1961 to 2018. He stayed at Abril until 1984, moving to

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until 1988, when he returned to work at Abril until 1993.

Awards

In 1995, Saidenberg was awarded with the

Prêmio Angelo Agostini for Master of National Comics Master of National Comics () is one of the categories of Prêmio Angelo Agostini, the most traditional Brazilian award dedicated to comics that has been held since 1985 by Associação dos Quadrinhistas e Caricaturistas do Estado de São Paulo (AQ ...

, an award that aims to honor artists who have dedicated themselves to

Brazilian comics Brazilian comics (known in Brazilian Portuguese as ''HQs, gibis, revistinhas, historietas'', ''quadrinhos'' or ''tirinhas'') started in the 19th century, adopting a satirical style known as cartoon, charges or caricature that would later be cemen ...

for at least 25 years.

References

External links

Official website
1940 births 2009 deaths Brazilian comics artists Prêmio Angelo Agostini winners Disney comics writers Jewish Brazilian writers {{LatAm-comics-creator-stub