[Translated from Portuguese]

São Paulo coast, 7-13 January 2006

The Metropole newspaper now has the intelligent and good-humored drawings of cartoonist Alfredo Karras. With vast experience since 1992, his work has appeared in many newspapers of the coast of São Paulo, including the Jornal da Câmara de Cubatão, Gazeta de Praia Grande, O Cubatense, Polícia Sem Censura (creating artistic impressions of criminals), Povo de Cubatão and Voz do Comércio.
L ast year, he appeared on the TV show Cidade contra Cidade (City Against City), presentated by Otávio Mesquita in the Rede Bandeirantes (Bandeirante’s Channel), defending the São Vicente’s city in a caricature contest.
Karras also expresses his artistic gift in literature. With the book Ser, which is also published in English with the name Be, he was the first Brazilian to have a published book on the Internet by a foreign publisher. Classified as a philosophical fiction, the work can be acquired from the site www.sminkworks.com/br


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