Iron Man pinup - Octavio Cariello after Jack Kirby

Octavio Cariello was born in 1963 in the capital of the state of Pernambuco. When he turned twenty-four, he decided to leave Recife to live in São Paulo. The city welcomed him with open arms, and the two have maintained an exciting love affair ever since.

He has lived life to the fullest, in addition to writing poetry, scripts, novels, chronicles, and technical texts. Words are something for which he nurtures a special passion: he devours them in soups and books, plays at creating typefaces, and graduated with expertise in the Portuguese and English languages and their literatures from FFLCH-USP in 2013.

Cariello has multiplied himself as an actor, singer, draftsman, photographer, designer, illustrator, comic book artist, translator, writer, editor, and teacher. The creator of several characters and their respective groups, he has published—as a writer—comics in the anthologies Quebra-Queixo Technorama (Devir, 2003/2005/2010), Fim do Mundo em Quadrinhos (Devir, 2012), O Grande, Gostoso, Quente e Úmido Livro do Sexo (Faria e Silva, 2020), and in the album Portais (with Pietro Antognioni; Terracota, 2014 / Polvo, 2017).

As a letterer, his work includes Spirit (Eisner, NG, 1988), Animal (VHD, 1991), Power People (Sesi-SP, 2016), and Le Mönet (Bräo, 2022). As an illustrator, he has contributed to Fanzine Matrix (1991), Trancers (Eternity, 1991), The Worlds of H.P. Lovecraft (Caliber, 1992), The Queen of the Damned (Innovation, 1993/1995), Black Lightning (DC, 1995/2019), Logan: Shadow Society (Marvel, 1996), Linha de Ataque (Abril, 1998), Álbum da Fábrica de Quadrinhos 01 (Devir, 2001), Contos Bizarros Serial Killers (Abril, 2003), King Lear (Nemo, 2013), Sherlock Holmes: The Yellow Band (FTD, 2016), O Resgate (Marcela Godoy, Copersucar, 2020), Quadrinhos Queer (Skript, 2020), as well as the artbooks Arbook54 (Elipse, 2017) and Artbook41 (OC, 2022).

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