Laerte Coutinho

Acting

Born 1951-06-10 · São Paulo, Brazil

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Laerte Coutinho, known mainly as simply Laerte, is a Brazilian cartoonist, comic strip artist and screenwriter. Assigned male at birth, she came out in 2009 as a crossdresser and later as a transgender woman. Laerte has collaborated with several publications such as Balão, O Pasquim, and Chiclete com Banana magazines and draws regularly for Folha de S. Paulo newspaper. She has created several comic strip characters, such as Piratas do Tietê (The Pirates of Tietê River). Since the mid 2000s, Laerte's strips became more philosophical and less humour-focused, abandoning fixed characters.

Known for

Super OldboyConsideração do PoemaLaughter of OthersBob Spit: We Do Not Like PeopleLampião da Esquina: Lighting Up Brazilian PressTie and Red NailA Turma do Pererê.DOCLaerte-seReading Again GraúnaDossiê Rê Bordosa