Cláudio Seto

{{Short description|Brazilian artist, poet, and photographer}}

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Cláudio Seto (1944 – November 15, 2008) was a Brazilian journalist, visual artist, comic artist, poet, photographer, cultural animator and bonsai artist.{{cite web |url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/s/seto_claudio.htm |title=Cláudio Seto |publisher=Lambiek Comiclopedia}}{{cite web |url=https://tribunapr.uol.com.br/mais-pop/desenhista-claudio-seto-e-retratado-em-documentario/ |title=Desenhista Claudio Seto é retratado em documentário |publisher=Tribuna do Paraná |date=November 19, 2011 |lang=pt}} Of Japanese descent, at age nine he went to study at a Zen monastery in Japan, where he took the opportunity to visit Osamu Tezuka's studio on weekends.{{cite web |url=https://www.gazetadopovo.com.br/caderno-g/morre-aos-64-anos-claudio-seto-um-dos-pioneiros-do-manga-no-brasil-ba49ebj0hgzd4djtl0je2de8e/ |title=Morre, aos 64 anos, Claudio Seto, um dos pioneiros do mangá no Brasil |publisher=Gazeta do Povo |date=November 16, 2008 |lang=pt}} When he returned to Brazil in the 1960s, he was hired by Edrel publishing house, where he published stories about samurai and ninja, who were still little known by Brazilians.{{cite web |url=https://www.omelete.com.br/quadrinhos/morre-o-quadrinista-brasileiro-claudio-seto |title=Morre o quadrinista brasileiro Claudio Seto |publisher=Omelete |date=May 24, 2018 |lang=pt}} Seto is considered the forerunner of the use of the manga style in Brazilian comics and his best-known character was O Samurai.{{cite web |url=https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/fsp/cotidian/ff2111200818.htm |title=Cláudio Seto, precursor do mangá no país |publisher=Folha de S.Paulo |date=November 21, 2008 |lang=pt}}{{cite web |url=https://universohq.com/noticias/o-samurai-de-curitiba-claudio-seto-em-documentario/ |title=O Samurai de Curitiba: Claudio Seto em documentário |publisher=Universo HQ |date=September 16, 2011 |lang=pt}} In the 1970s, he moved to Curitiba to work at the Grafipar publishing house, which had hired some of the best Brazilian comic artists of the time (in addition to Seto, other artists who also moved to the city were Flavio Colin, Julio Shimamoto, Mozart Couto, Watson Portela, Rodval Matias and Franco de Rosa).{{cite web |url=https://www.bigorna.net/index.php?secao=entrevistas&id=1303671713 |title=Entrevista: Claudio Seto |publisher=Bigorna.net |date=April 24, 2011 |lang=pt}} In 1988, he was awarded with the Prêmio Angelo Agostini for Master of National Comics, an award that aims to honor artists who have dedicated themselves to Brazilian comics for at least 25 years.{{cite web |url=https://www.bigorna.net/index.php?secao=artigos&id=1134708984 |title=Tudo sobre o Dia do Quadrinho Nacional e o Troféu Angelo Agostini |publisher=Bigorna.net |date=December 16, 2005 |lang=pt |access-date=November 3, 2021 |archive-date=October 31, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211031131527/https://www.bigorna.net/index.php?secao=artigos&id=1134708984 |url-status=live }}