conservative National Democratic Union party. There, she drew satirical caricatures related to the news of the day, frequently depicting President Getúlio Vargas, which took on an anti-Peronist slant under Lacerda's leadership. She also created the comic strip Tribulino for the newspaper. Weber worked for the Tribunal until the newspaper was sold, in 1962. After that, she moved back to São Paulo, where she lived for the remainder of her life. She was hired to work for the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo, to which she had contributed since 1956. In 1960, she won the World Newspaper Forum caricature contest for best Latin American cartoonist. Her work was exhibited at the Salon of the National Union of Plastic Artists, in five editions of the São Paulo Art Biennial, at the Exhibition of Modern Art in Belo Horizonte, and in the Official and National Salons of Modern art in Rio de Janeiro. Weber retired in 1989. A collection of her work, O Brasil em Charges (1950 – 1985), was published by Circo Editorial. Personal life Weber was married three times. With her second husband, the journalist Cláudio Abramo, she had one son, Cláudio Weber Abramo, who was also a journalist. She died in 1994, in São Paulo, at age 81. External links A sampling of her work at Colecionadores de HQs (in Portuguese) References 1913 births 1994 deaths 20th-century Brazilian women artists 20th-century German women artists Brazilian cartoonists Brazilian women cartoonists German Brazilian German women cartoonists Brazilian political satire Brazilian caricaturists German emigrants to Brazil