Santa Claus American cartoonist of the 19th century. In 1863, a picture of Santa illustrated by Nast appeared in "Harper's Weekly". Thomas Nast immortalized Santa Claus with an illustration for the 3 January 1863 issue of "Harper's Weekly". Santa was dressed in an American flag, and had a puppet with the name "Jeff" written on it, reflecting its Civil War context. The story that Santa Claus lives at the North Pole may also have been a Nast creation. His Christmas image in the "Harper's" issue dated 29 December 1866 was a collage of engravings titled "Santa Claus and His Works", which included
Belmonte (cartoonist) Belmonte (cartoonist) Belmonte, the pseudonym of Benedito Carneiro Bastos Barreto (São Paulo, 1897 – São Paulo, 1947), was a Brazilian caricaturist, painter, illustrator, cartoonist, journalist and historian, who began his career in 1912. Without a doubt the greatest figure in caricature in São Paulo in the first half of the twentieth century, Belmonte is best remembered today as the creator of the most popular character in the São Paulo press at that time, Juca Pato. In 1936, Belmonte's political cartoons with Juca Pato started to appear in the newspaper "Folha da Manhã", beginning a long series (lasting until 1946) about