Prêmio Angelo Agostini for Master of National Comics

Master of National Comics (Brazilian Portuguese: Mestre do Quadrinho Nacional) is one of the categories of Prêmio Angelo Agostini, the most traditional Brazilian award dedicated to comics that has been held since 1985 by Associação dos Quadrinhistas e Caricaturistas do Estado de São Paulo (AQC-ESP).

Prêmio Angelo Agostini for Master of National Comics
Awarded for	artists who have been dedicating themselves to Brazilian comics for at least 25 years
Sponsored by	AQC-ESP
Location	São Paulo
Country	Brazil
Presented by	Associação dos Quadrinhistas e Caricaturistas do Estado de São Paulo
First award	1985
Website	http://www.trofeuangeloagostini.com.br

History

The "Master of National Comics" category has been part of Prêmio Angelo Agostini since its first edition, in 1985. It is aimed to reward artists who have been dedicated to Brazilian comics for at least 25 years. The four honorees of this first edition were chosen by AQC-ESP board. The following year, the winners were elected by open vote for members of AQC-ESP and comics artists associations from other Brazilian states (and, later, for any interested person, whether comics professionals or readers).^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

The Angelo Agostini's 18th edition, in 2002, exceptionally awarded 13 people as "Master of National Comics" instead of the traditional three names. This would be a tribute to the "majority" of the event (it was "turning 18 years old"). It was the largest number of winners in this category in the same edition.^[6][7]

As of the 2006 edition, the sending of voting ballots, which until then could only be done by mail, also started to occur by e-mail. A new change was made in the 2013 edition: votes were now registered directly on the AQC-ESP's official blog, which resulted in a large increase in the number of votes (14,937 in this edition against a total that hardly exceeded 500 in previous editions).^[8][9][10]

In 2007, only living artists became eligible for the award (until the previous year, the trophy was awarded posthumously several times). Due to this change, all deceased artists who were part of the list that AQC-ESP published annually of people eligible for the category were automatically defined by the organizing committee as "Masters in memoriam".^[11][12]

Since 2017, the winners of this category became chosen by the organizing committee and no longer by voters. The only exception to this new criterion was in the 2019 edition (when that was chosen by open voting), but in the following edition the definition of the winners in this category was again made by the organizing committee.^{[13][14][15][16]}

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 36th Angelo Agostini Award, which should have taken place in 2020, was held in January 2021. This problem reoccurred in the next edition, focused on the production of 2020 comics, but which had its vote postponed to early 2022. The schedule was regularized in 2022 with the 38th edition of the award being held in the second half of the year.^[17][18]

Winners and nominees

Self-portrait of Angelo Agostini, the artist who names the award and who posthumously received the title of Master of the National Comics in 2004.

Messias de Mello received the award in 1985.

Julio Shimamoto received the award in 1986.

Ziraldo received the award in 1990.

André LeBlanc received the award in 1992.

Mauricio de Sousa received the award in 1993.

Lyrio Aragão received the award in 1994.

Laerte Coutinho received the award in 2003.

Paulo Caruso received the award in 2005.

Mike Deodato, also known as Deodato Filho, received the award in 2009.

Fernando Gonsales received the award in 2012.

Lourenço Mutarelli received the award in 2012 and 2014.

Marcatti received the award in 2016.

Marcelo Campos received the award in 2019.

Edgar Franco received the award in 2022.

Year	Winners	Nominees	Ref.
1985	Eugenio Colonnese	Elected by the organizing committee	[3]
	Jayme Cortez
	Messias de Mello
	Rodolfo Zalla
1986	Gedeone Malagola	Open voting, no list of nominees	[3]
	Julio Shimamoto
	Nico Rosso
1987	Flavio Colin	Open voting, no list of nominees	[19]
	Henfil
	Sérgio Lima
1988	Cláudio Seto	Open voting, no list of nominees	[20]
	João Batista Queiroz
	Luiz Sá
1989	Álvaro de Moya	Open voting, no list of nominees	[5][21]
	Jaguar
	Rubens Francisco Lucchetti
1990	Miguel Penteado	Open voting, no list of nominees	[5][21]
	Walmir Amaral
	Ziraldo
1991	Aylton Thomaz	Open voting, no list of nominees	[22][5][21]
	Primaggio Mantovi
	Reinaldo de Oliveira
1992	André LeBlanc	Open voting, no list of nominees	[23][5][21]
	Ismael dos Santos
	Izomar Camargo Guilherme
1993	Carlos Zéfiro	Open voting, no list of nominees	[4][5][21]
	Mauricio de Sousa
	Waldir Igayara
1994	Ely Barbosa	Open voting, no list of nominees	[24]
	Getulio Delphim
	Lyrio Aragão
1995	Ivan Saidenberg	Open voting, no list of nominees	[25]
	Paulo Fukue
	Roberto Fukue
1996	Antonio Duarte	Open voting, no list of nominees	[26]
	Helena Fonseca
	Paulo Hamasaki
1997	Fernando Ikoma	Open voting, no list of nominees	[27]
	Maria Aparecida Godoy
	Oscar Kern
1998	Carlos Arthur Thiré	Open voting, no list of nominees	[28]
	Manoel Victor Filho
	Zezo
1999	Deodato Borges	Open voting, no list of nominees	[29]
	Luiz Antônio Sampaio
	Péricles
2000	Adolfo Aizen	Open voting, no list of nominees	[30]
	Moacy Cirne
	Renato Silva
2001	Edson Rontani	Open voting, no list of nominees	[31]
	Ivan Wasth Rodrigues
	Renato Canini
2002	Antônio Cedraz	Open voting, no list of nominees	[32]
	Claudio de Sousa
	Edmundo Rodrigues
	Ignácio Justo
	Ionaldo Cavalcanti
	José Delbo
	Luis Sátiro
	Luiz Saidenberg
	Luscar
	Nani
	Osvaldo Talo
	Rubens Cordeiro
	Zaé Júnior
2003	Antônio Eusébio	Open voting, no list of nominees	[33]
	Laerte Coutinho
	Moacir Rodrigues Soares
	Otacilio D'Assunção
	Tony Fernandes
2004	Angeli	Open voting, no list of nominees	[34]
	Angelo Agostini
	Carlos Estêvão
	Chico Caruso
	Rivaldo
2005	Luiz Gê	Open voting, no list of nominees	[35]
	Minami Keizi
	Paulo Caruso
2006	Jorge Barkinwel	Open voting, no list of nominees	[36]
	Lor
	Sônia Luyten
2007	Gutemberg Monteiro	Open voting, no list of nominees	[37]
	Luiz Teixeira da Silva (Tule)
	Xalberto
2008	Aníbal Barros Cassal	Open voting, no list of nominees	[38]
	Antônio Luiz Cagnin
	Diamantino da Silva
	Fernando Dias da Silva
	Ofeliano de Almeida
	Salatiel de Holanda
2009	Deodato Filho	Open voting, no list of nominees	[39]
	Emir Ribeiro
	Mozart Couto
	Sebastião Seabra
	Sergio Morettini
	Watson Portela
2010	Franco de Rosa	Open voting, no list of nominees	[40]
	Henrique Magalhães
	Rodval Mathias
2011	Dag Lemos	Open voting, no list of nominees	[41]
	Eduardo Vetillo
	E.C. Nickel
	Elmano Silva
	Novaes
2012	Bira Dantas	Open voting, no list of nominees	[42]
	Fernando Gonsales
	Lourenço Mutarelli
	Moacir Torres
2013	Jô Fevereiro	Open voting, no list of nominees	[10]
	Júlio Emílio Braz
	Marcos Maldonado
2014	Byrata	Open voting, no list of nominees	[43]
	Lourenço Mutarelli
	Paulo Paiva Lima
2015	Carlos Edgard Herrero	Open voting, no list of nominees	[44]
	Gustavo Machado
	Murilo Marques Moutinho
2016	Carlos Patati	Open voting, no list of nominees	[45]
	Christie Queiroz
	Marcatti
2017	Arthur Garcia	Elected by the organizing committee	[46]
	João Gualberto Costa
	Sérgio Graciano
	Sidney L. Salustre
2018	Jal	Elected by the organizing committee	[47]
	José Menezes
	Floreal
	Marcelo Cassaro
2019	Ciça Pinto	Aparecido Norberto Edgar Vasques José Márcio Nicolosi José Wilson Magalhães Luiz Iório Paulo José Santiago	[48][49]
	Marcelo Campos
	Octavio Cariello
2020	Aparecido Norberto	Elected by the organizing committee	[50][note 1]
	Crau da Ilha
	Maria da Graça Maldonado
	Ykenga
2021	Anita Costa Prado	Elected by the organizing committee	[51][note 1]
	Edgar Franco
	Edgar Vasques
	Renato Aroeira
2022	José Márcio Nicolosi	Elected by the organizing committee	[18]
	Lilian Mitsunaga
	Santiago
	Sergio Macedo
2023	Adriana Melo	Elected by the organizing committee	[52]
	Érica Awano
	Laudo Ferreira
	Nilson Azevedo
2024	Ana Luiza Koehler	Elected by the organizing committee	[53]
	André Diniz
	Lúcia Nóbrega
	Rogério de Campos

See also

• List of Prêmio Angelo Agostini winners

Notes

1. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 and 2021 editions had their award ceremonies held online in the respective following years. ("Troféu Angelo Agostini realiza uma nova edição da premiação para homenagear os destaques dos quadrinhos nacionais em 2021" (in Portuguese). O Barquinho Cultural. August 27, 2022.)