Belmonte (cartoonist)
Belmonte, the pseudonym of Benedito Carneiro Bastos Barreto, was a Brazilian caricaturist, painter, illustrator, cartoonist, journalist and historian, who began his career in 1912.
Without a doubt the greatest figure in caricature in São Paulo in the first half of the twentieth century, Belmonte is best remembered today as the creator of the most popular character in the São Paulo press at that time, Juca Pato.
In 1936, Belmonte's political cartoons with Juca Pato started to appear in the newspaper Folha da Manhã, beginning a long series about World War II.
