#laerte

[azaromeu]

by Laerte Coutinho

[letitrainathousandflames]

Laerte Coutinho (born 10 June 1951), known mainly as simply Laerte, is a Brazilian cartoonist and screenwriter, known for creating comic strips such as Piratas do Tietê (Pirates of the Tietê River).

She was part of the Brazilian underground comics scene of the 1980s. She has done work for publications such as Balão, O Pasquim, and Chiclete com Banana magazines, and draws regularly for Folha de S. Paulo newspaper. Since the mid 2000s, her strips have become more "philosophical" and less humor-focused, relying less on recurring characters.

Assigned male at birth, she came out as a transgender woman when she was 57 years old. She became a founding member of the Associação Brasileira de Transgêner@s ("Brazilian Association of Transgender People").

She contributed to the Google Doodle for International Women's Day 2018 by creating a short comic about a man and a transgender woman falling in love (seen above).

[culturabrasileira]

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[cosmonautroger]

Laerte, 1966

[celluloidrainbow]

DE GRAVATA E UNHA VERMELHA (2014) dir. Miriam Chnaiderman Several artists realize their personal way to build their own identity from the choice of genre. Transsexual, transgender, crossdressing – the defining of terminologies different ways of looking at yourself are constantly rising, portraying a universe of possibilities, expanding the boundaries of the possible and permitted. (link in title)

[dani-xis]

Laerte é foda

[gravedangerahead]

Laerte, eu te amo. Eu te amo, Laerte

[genericgirl420]

There's a brazillian cartoonist called Laerte, and she produces the most insane batshit comics ever who are impossible to understand, she's absolutely hilarious, I'll translate some of them, keep in mind that they don't make any sense:

1. Bonobos solve everything with sex

2. Chimpanzees don't.

3. Chimpanzees have gathered a fortune of cryptocurrency nowadays.

1. Your majesty.

What?

2. You're wearing an octopus instead of a crown.

3. I know.

He didn't know.

1. They took me out to dance

And never returned me

1. I read

2. Read

3. Read

4. Read nonstop.

1. Behold, a field of knowledge.

2. Behold, a lake in the field of knowledge.

3. Behold, the alligators in the field of knowledge.

4. You're fat.

It's this academic life.

Her comics are mostly like that, and it's such a weirdly hilarious nonsense that the "Scale of Laerte Understanding" was created, based on the following images:

I'm not translating them individually but they range from "Laerte I don't understand" to "tell Laerte I understood", she's the original shitposter and I love her.

@thinkingabout-girls you're the only drawfee mutual I have, I needed to tell someone how much I'd love a drawfee episode based on these comics