Julia Nascimento Bacellar, known as Julia Bax (

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, February 26, 1981), is a Brazilian

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artist. Her first comic book work was published in the Brazilian magazine ''Kaos!'', recommended by

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(who was her professor in the comic anatomy course at Quanta Academia de Artes). After that, she made the drawings of a 12-page story on the album ''Quebra-Queixo Technorama Volume 2'', published by Devir. By these two works, in 2006 Julia won the

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, the main Brazilian comic book prize, in the category "Revelation Penciller". She started working for publishers in other countries, especially Marvel Comics, in which she participated in the magazine '' X-Men: First Class''. Julia also has published works for publishers like

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, Devil's Due and

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, among others. Some of her published works are ''Histórias'' (which compiles the

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s she published in

Folha de S. Paulo ''Folha de S.Paulo'' (sometimes spelled ''Folha de São Paulo''), also known as simply ''Folha'' (, ''Sheet''), is a Brazilian daily newspaper founded in 1921 under the name ''Folha da Noite'' and published in São Paulo by the Folha da Manhã co ...

), ''Remy'' (in partnership with writer Diogo Bercito) and ''Pink Daïquiri'' (written by Mélanie Théry and Laurent Habart, with drawings by Julia and Amanda Grazini). In 2016, the Belgian publishing house

published the

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''Princesse Caraboo'' (written by Antoine Ozanam), based on the true story of the notorious impostor Mary Baker.

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Living people Brazilian female comics artists Brazilian comics writers Brazilian female comics writers Brazilian graphic novelists 1981 births {{LatAm-comics-creator-stub