Laerte Coutinho

Biography

Laerte Coutinho, known mainly as simply Laerte, is a Brazilian cartoonist, comic strip artist and screenwriter. Assigned male at birth, she came out in 2009 as a crossdresser and later as a transgender woman. Laerte has collaborated with several publications such as Balão, O Pasquim, and Chiclete com Banana magazines and draws regularly for Folha de S. Paulo newspaper. She has created several comic strip characters, such as Piratas do Tietê (The Pirates of Tietê River). Since the mid 2000s, Laerte's strips became more philosophical and less humour-focused, abandoning fixed characters.

Known For

Laerte-se

as Herself

Bob Spit: We Do Not Like People

as Laerte / Madame L (voice)

Dossiê Rê Bordosa

as Laerte Coutinho (voice)

The City of Pirates

as Laerte Coutinho (voice)

Tie and Red Nail

as Herself

Laughter of Others

as Herself

Legs Out

as Herself

Consideração do Poema

Três Irmãos de Sangue

Lampião da Esquina: Lighting Up Brazilian Press

as Herself