The Magazine of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Field Brazilian cartoonist and veteran magazine editor OTACÍLIO COSTA D’ASSUNÇÃO BARROS who signed his works as “Ota” (1954-2021) was found dead in his apartment in Rio de Janeiro on September 24 after two days without contact by neighbors Ota was the editor of the Brazilian version of the famous Mad magazine from the 1970s up to 2008 He was also an uncredited art director for the Brazilian edition of Asimov’s Science Fiction The magazine was published by local powerful publishing house Record Ota brought to the magazine internal illustrators that were comic book artists such as the important Flavio Colin (1930-2002) This obituary is found in the November 2021 issue of Locus Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value" “It is impossible to overstate how important LOCUS is to our community and the greater speculative fiction genre Locus Magazine and Website cover science fiction and allows us to continue to share our content without a paywall Even a small contribution goes a long way toward keeping Locus going and keeping you up to date with new exciting books and in the know about the SFF world O endereço abaixo não existe na globo.com