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.
Filmography
Desenheiros do Instagram
2026
as Archive footage
From Nowhere: A Portrait of Valter Hugo Mãe
2025
as Self
The Known Daughter of Claudia Wonder
2024
Reading Again Graúna
2024
as Self
Bob Spit: We Do Not Like People
2021
as Laerte / Madame L (voice)
Minha Bateria Está Fraca e Está Ficando Tarde
2020
as Self
A Turma do Pererê.DOC
2019
Rindo à Toa: Humor Sem Limites
2018
as Self
The City of Pirates
2018
as Laerte Coutinho (voice)
Mapas Afetivos: São Paulo
2018
Casa da Xiclet
2017
as Herself
Laerte-se
2017
as Herself
Lampião da Esquina: Lighting Up Brazilian Press
2016
as Self
Super Oldboy
2016
Tie and Red Nail
2014
as Herself
- No poster
Legs Out
2012
as Herself
Laughter of Others
2012
as Herself
Consideração do Poema
2011
Malditos Cartunistas
2010
Dossiê Rê Bordosa
2008
as Laerte Coutinho (voice)
- No poster
Três Irmãos de Sangue
2006
as Self
- No poster
Cartas da Mãe
2003