Biography

João Spacca de Oliveira, more commonly known as Spacca, born in São Paulo in 1964, is a Brazilian cartoonist and comic book artist.

Began his career at fifteen as an advertising illustrator at Young & Rubicam. 

After a brief passage in commercial animation, won a contest promoted by newspaper Folha de S. Paulo and worked there as a political cartoonist and illustrator from 1985 to 1995.

Graduated in Visual Communication at FAAP, São Paulo.

Since 2005 publishes graphic novels that deal with literary and historical subjects, some in partnership with historian and anthropologist Lilia M. Schwarcz, at publishing house Companhia das Letras.

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