Fred Ozanan

By LatAm ARTE

Frederico Ozanan Pinto Gomes Pereira, better known as Fred Ozanan (Campina Grande) is a Brazilian cartoonist, journalist and graphic designer. He obtained the record number of awards at the Piracicaba Humor Exhibition (1992, 1993, 1994, 1995 and 1996) and in 1997 he was honored by UNIMEP, becoming part of the award jury from 1998 at the National Humor Foundation and the Ibero-American Union of Graphic Humorists. He was the founder of the National Exhibition of Humor in Campina Grande; He curated the Piauí International Salon of Humor in 2000 (the year that HQMIX won as the best salon in Brazil) and 2001. He started at the newspaper “Gazeta do Sertão” and worked at “Diário da Borborema”, “Jornal de Alagoas”, “O Norte”, “Correio da PB” and various newspapers, including “Pasquim”. He also worked as a cartoonist for the UOL Portal and publishes political cartoons on the “Charge on Line”, “Brazil Cartoon” and “PBONLINE” sites. He published ten humorous books, having won the 12th HQ Mix Trophy, in the “Livro de Charges” category, for the work "Falando Sério" (published by UFPB / 1999). The following year, he released the book "Paraíba e Piauí no Cartoon", once again winning the HQ MIX Trophy in the Cartoon Book category. Other books by Fred Ozanan are: "Who said that Brazil is not funny?" (editor of the UFPB/1997); “River of Tears-a very dry vision of the Northeast (2000)” Electoral Zone (2004)”; “Brazil in Black and White (2005)”; “Health in Brazil has no medicine (2008)”; Rio de Lágrimas: transposition, from drama to fiction” “Que Cara é Essa?” (book of cartoons drawn with the mouse, editorial Latus/2013) and "Jogo Sujo se Lava a Jato" (2018). For more than 15 years he worked as a volunteer in public schools in various states of the federation. Several of his works appear in textbooks and were used as subjects for college entrance exams. In 2018, Fred Ozanan donated his collection of the "Pasquim" newspaper to the National Press Museum in the city of Porto, Portugal.