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About
Tóssan was the total comedian, the poet of the absurd, the reciter of prodigious memory, the incredible guest who reigned at dinners and parties, uninterruptedly unraveling fantastic stories that were often just episodes of his real life, the eternal passionate about childhood, which he offered children, who didn’t have, with drawn games and cut paper.
Tóssan was the explosive volcano that infected everything he touched. It was like that at Teatro Lethes in Faro, at TEUC in Coimbra, at the Embassy of Brazil, at Diário de Lisboa and at Terra Livre publisher. He wrote to the drawer, on hundreds of papers scrawled with ideas, sketches and complete poems, of irresistible nonsense and humor, giving a meaning to the life that Tóssan believed absurd.
The famous Ode to Football, written in 1945, only went public in 1969, recited in Zip-Zip and printed in the newspaper a Bola. Raul Solnado and Mário Viegas appreciated it and foretold glories that Tóssan never wanted to fulfill.
Designer and illustrator, he was as good as the best, always in favor of the winds, mixing in the printed pages the influences of the great contemporary artists. A little bit of everything and maybe more on this album, which also includes poems and short stories, many of them unpublished.
