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Leo

Leo (Born 1944) is active/lives in Brazil, France.  Leo is known for Drawing, comics.

Luiz Eduardo de Oliveira (born on December 13, 1944, Brazil), more famous under his artist name Léo is a Brazilian comics creator.

After having graduated as an engineer in mechanics, Oliveira left Brazil because of the military dictatorship that was in power at the time.  He went first to Chile, but the following year saw the Chilean coup of 1973.  This led Oliveira to leave, moving to Argentina, from where he finally returned to Brazil in 1974.

He found work as an illustrator in the advertising industry of São Paulo, before once more leaving Brazil, in 1981, this time moving to France, hoping to illustrate comics.  However as the Franco-Belgian comics industry was in recession at the time, he was forced to work in advertising once again, although he managed to get the occasional piece published in L'Écho des Savanes and Pilote.

In 1986, with the assistance of Jean-Claude Forest, Oliveira began contributing to the youth dedicated magazi   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1769 characters.]  Artist bio

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