Born in
São Paulo, the twin brother of fellow cartoonist Chico, in 1976 Caruso graduated in architecture at the
University of São Paulo. He started his career in the newspaper
Diário Popular in the late 1960s. He died of intestinal cancer on 4 March 2023, at the age of 73. President
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva mourned his death, noting "his sharp drawing and his humour are already part of the national memory". ==References==