Chico Caruso, Laerte, Claudio de Oliveira and more artists regret Jaguar’s death

Writers and artists lamented the death of cartoonist Jaguar this Sunday (24). He was one of the founders of the Pasquim newspaper, a vehicle of opposition to the military dictatorship launched in 1969. He was hospitalized with a hospital respiratory infection in Rio de Janeiro.

Cláudio de Oliveira, cartoonist of Sheethe tells the newspaper why he did not sleep with Jaguar, after event at the Campina Grande Humor Salon, Paraíba, in June 1989.

“We shared the room. Once the obligations that took us to the salon, I collected myself to rest. But the night was a child to Jaguar! We crossed in the hotel hall the next morning, sun loud, leaving an interview on a morning TV show and he arrives from the night! As soon as I had a great satisfaction to find him in other halls, and I always laughed! Funny I met! And your genius, critical and mocking work! “

Chargist Chico Caruso called Jaguar a “best Brazilian cartoonist and my dear friend”. “It is an irreparable loss to humor and Brazil,” he said in an interview with GloboNews.

Laerte, cartoonist of SheetHe exalted Jaguar’s historical legacy between the middle and shared memory. “Pasquim, as a whole, was a kind of Mount Olympus, and Jaguar was a very special, welcoming God. He always gave a word of incentive,” he told GloboNews.

Writers Luiz Pimentel and Afonso Borges, sociologist Rudá Ricci and cartoonist Adam Iturrusgarai also lamented death.