# 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).

## 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).
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.
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).
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".
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.
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.

## Winners and nominees

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