With her refreshing comments on younger women’s conflicts in the era of e-mails, text messages and Facebook, Ofelia is the new heroine of the comic strip. In nine small images per page she tells us a whole story: Be it lovesickness, self-esteem or the imponderable ways of life, Ofelia will surprise us and make us laugh with her very real existential dilemmas and her audacious vision of herself and the world around her.

In 1977, Loredano moved to Germany and worked for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Die Zeit until 1981, when he went to live in Italy and France, working for La Repubblica, Il Globo, Libération and the MagazineLittéraire. After spending just one year (1983) in Brazil, he moved back to Europe once again, first to Zürich, then to Barcelona. It was in 1986 when Loredano first drew his unmistakable charges for El País. His caricatures of celebrities for the literary supplement Babelia are most distinctive. In 1993 Loredano returned to Brazil for good. He now lives in Rio de Janeiro and works for large dailies such as the Estado de S. Paulo and other national and international press. So far two books have been published, Caricaturas in 1994 and Alfabeto Literário in 2002. Today he is considered to be Brazil’s most famous and original draughtsman of caricatures and the large number of fans and admirers in his country, as well as abroad, only proves that.