BETWEEN CHARGES AND CARTOONS: AN INTERVIEW WITH JOÃO SPACCA

Abstract

As well as historians, in the construction of the historical narrative from the investigation of sources, cartoonists favor different aspects of the same object. João Spacca de Oliveira, who signed his cartoons as Spacca, was born in 1964, in São Paulo. He began his career as an illustrator at the age of 15. He concluded drawing and communication studies at FAAP in 1983 and debuted as a cartoonist at O ​​Pasquim in 1985. In the same year, he won a contest for new talents at Folha de São Paulo, for which he began to draw political cartoons until 1995, having made Sarney cartoons à la Fernando Henrique Cardoso. He collaborated with comic book magazines Níquel Náusea and Front, as well as working as a book illustrator. In this interview, we talk about his training, the development of underground culture, his work as a cartoonist for Folha, among other subjects. Currently a master's student in Social History at the University of São Paulo, it wouldn't be too much to say that Spacca is also a historian.