Lailson de Holanda Cavalcanti was born on December 26, 1952, in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil.

When he was 17 years old he started publishing his cartoons at The Pine Cone (Arkansas, USA), receiving the Award for Best Original Artwork, by the Arkansas High School Press Association.

Back to Brazil he formed the band Phetus - one of the seminal rock groups of Pernambuco in the 70's, along with Paulo Rafael and Zé da Flauta - and recorded the independent record SATWA (with Lula Côrtes-73), worked as an audio-visual artist for an English school where he also taught and later became staff artists and art Director of advertisement agencies in Recife, staying in this field until 1984.

In 1975, he started publishing on the Pernambuco newspapers with a two pages comics work at the Jornal da Cidade, working as a regular illustrator on that weekly newspaper. 

In the following year, with the group that started the humor movement in Pernambuco in the 70's (Paulo Santos, Ral and Bione), he was one of the founders of the humor page (later on a weekly independent publication) O PAPA-FIGO at the Jornal da Semana.

Winner of the First Prize at the Concurso de Desenho de Humor na Paraíba in 1976, received the First Prize at the Salão Internacional de Humor de Piracicaba (São Paulo) in 77, becoming in this same year the Editorial cartoonist at the Diario de Pernambuco with a daily panel at the opinions page, holding the record of being the editorial cartoonist who publishes steadily on the same newspaper for the longest period in Brazil. 

He published his works in many newspapers and magazines in Brazil and abroad, among them Pasquim, MAD (Brazilian edition), Revista Visão, Veja 28 Graus, KYX 93, Rei Da Notícia, Florida Review, O Europeu, Revista Bundas, Revista Palavra and O Pasquim 21 and for a while he created and was the editor of a bi-weekly humor journal, the Folhetim Humorial.

With participation in many national and international humor festivals, he had works selected for exhibition in Japan, Germany, Bulgaria, Turkey and Spain.

Winner of the First Prize in Editorial Cartoon in Montreal/Canada (85), Paraíba (76), Piracicaba (77 - where he also won the Press Prize in 85)- Minas (85), and Portugal (94), he also won the Second Prize in Montreal (83) and Salvador (87).

He participated in the collective exhibits AMAZONIA 3000 (São Paulo - 96), SEM AIDS, COM AMOR (São Paulo - 97), MUESTRA IBERO AMERICANA DE ALCALÁ DE HENARES (Spain - 1998 to 2003), 500 ANOS DE HUMOR (Brazil/Portugal - 2000) and HUMOR DO FIM DO SÉCULO (Recife -2000).

He is also author of the books O QUE VIER EU TRAÇO (81), DEMOCRACIA PRA MIM É GREGO (84), ESTA VIDA É UM CIRCO (89), CARTAS DE PINDORAMA (89), HUMOR DIÁRIO (97), PINDORAMA A OUTRA HISTÓRIA DO BRASIL (2001), and RETRATO OFICIAL (2002), published his daily comic strip PINDORAMA in many Brazilian newspapers (publishing a collection which was shown to the public at the IX Festival da Amadora,Portugal,  PINDORAMA EDIÇÃO ESPECIAL), published the independent magazine ZONA TROPICAL at the Bienal Internacional de Quadrinhos do Rio de Janeiro (91) and was also the creator of the national humor salons of Pernambuco in 83 and 84, the Festival de Humor do Recife (86), Salão de Humor na Imprensa (91), outdoors billboards exhibit O Riso Na Rua (95), Seminário O Humor na Imprensa do Ano 2000 (98) and since 1999 created and is the Curator of the Festival Internacional de Humor e Quadrinhos de Pernambuco.

In 2001 he presented the individual exhibit PINDORAMA A OUTRA HISTÓRIA DO BRASIL at the Observatório Cultural Malakoff  (later presented in Spain, 2002) and the 25th anniversary of Editorial Cartoons publishing RETRATO OFICIAL, at the Palácio do Campo das Princesas, later presented at the Shopping Center Recife (2002).

Founding member of the Brazilian Cartoonists Association - ACB, he is one of the founders and the first president of the ACAPE - Associação dos Cartunistas de Pernambuco (Pernambuco Cartoonists Association), a non - governmental organization aimed at the development of Graphic Humor and Sequential Art as an art form and a medium of education and expression. 

His works may be seen daily at the websites www.pernambuco.com, www.chargeonline.com.br) and his works are distributed outside Brazil by the New York Times Syndicate/CartoonArts International.

Besides being a cartoonist, he also plays with his Rock & Blues group THE LAILSON BLUES BAND.

In 2001 he created the company LHC Associados, working with specialized communication for companies, cultural projects and sales, licensing and reproduction of his originals.