Zé Carioca (comics)

Zé Carioca is a long-running comic book series starring the José Carioca stories, first appearing in 1961. The comics was only published in Brazil by Editora Abril and later by Culturama, so it only has editions in Portuguese.
==Early development==
A few stories were created in comic strip format, designed by artist Paul Murry. In this series, it was introduced the first supporting characters: Rosinha, her father Rocha Vaz, Nestor and his rival Luis Carlos, later to be replaced by Zé Galo.
The first story of Zé Carioca produced for a comic book was "O Rei Do Carnaval" ("The Carnival King", in the original), the story was produced by Carl Buettner for the comic Walt Disney's Comics and Stories # 27 (published in 1942 and published in Brazil in O Pato Donald # 8 (1951)). In this story, the José tries to conquer a young woman that is a samba dancer and was created based on Carmen Miranda.
==Comics== 
The first story produced in Brazil with the José Carioca was called "A Volta De Zé Carioca" published in O Pato Donald # 165 (1955), whose drawings are attributed to Luis Destuet, 1955 the first story produced by an Brazilian artist. Finally from the 1970s, Editora Abril was able to structure its own studio designed to produce stories to supply the growing number of Disney publications circulating in the country with great success.
In July 2018, Editora Abril stopped publishing Disney comics, and in March 2019, Culturama started to publish them. In September 2020, Culturama started to publish new stories of Zé Carioca in the comic book Aventuras Disney.
===Almanaque do Zé Carioca===
In addition to the comics, José has an almanac. The first version had 21 editions, from May 1986 to February 1995. In December 2010, he won a second version, bimonthly.
Category:Comic books