Diego Agrimbau and Lucas Varela’s Diagnósticos: the aesthetic of comics as a form of representing mental disorders

Authors

  • Jozefh Fernando Soares Queiroz Universidade Federal de Alagoas
  • Laureny Aparecida Lourenço da Silva Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2317-9651.v0i15p106-143

Keywords:

Quadrinhos, estética, distúrbios psicológicos, narrativa.

Abstract

This paper dwells on the work Diagnósticos (2016), by the Argentines Diego Agrimbau and Lucas Varela. The work gathers a collection of six independent short stories about diverse psychological disorders, such as claustrophobia or synaesthesia. Along the article, we seek to analyze how the fundamental elements in the composition of the comics are intentionally used to simulate the effects of each disease featured in the story. Aspects such as the composition of a panel, the relation between the word and the image, the use of the speech balloons or the notion of movement are analyzed in order to understand not only the constituent elements of the graphic narratives, but also the resources used to optimize each plot and reinforce the representation of psychological disorders pictured on them. To this end, the analyses dialogue with the views of other researchers in Comics and the relation text-image, such as Will Eisner (1999; 2008), precursor of the studies in graphic narratives, Laura Vazquez (2012), Jacques Rancière (2012) and Sophie Van der Linden (2011).

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Author Biographies

  • Jozefh Fernando Soares Queiroz, Universidade Federal de Alagoas

    Jozefh Queiroz é professor adjunto da Universidade Federal de Alagoas, lecionando língua espanhola e narrativas gráficas. É doutor em Estudos Literários pela Universidade Federal de Alagoas (2017), onde também realizou mestrado em Estudos Literários (2012) e graduação em Letras Espanhol (2010). É autor dos livros Humor em Quadrinhos: um estudo de narrativas gráficas brasileiras e argentinas (2015) e Quadro a quadro: o que há por trás das narrativas gráficas (2017).

     

  • Laureny Aparecida Lourenço da Silva, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
    Laureny Aparecida Lourenço da Silva é professora adjunta da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, lecionando língua e literatura espanholas. É doutora em Estudos Literários pela Universidade Federal de Alagoas (2014), mestre em Estudos Literários (2008) e graduada em Letras (2005) pela Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. É autora do livro O teatro de Griselda Gambaro: grotesco feminino em três atos (2017).

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Agrimbau, Diego; Varela, Lucas. Diagnósticos. Barcelona: La Cúpula, 2016.

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Kayser, Wolfgang. O grotesco: configuração na pintura e na literatura. Trad. J. Guinsburg. São Paulo: Perspectiva, 2009.

Eisner, Will. Narrativas gráficas. 2. ed. São Paulo: Devir, 2008.

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Rancière, Jacques. O destino das imagens. Trad. Mônica Costa Netto. Rio de Janeiro: Contraponto, 2012.

Vander Linden, Sophie. Para ler o livro ilustrado. Trad. Dorothée de Bruchard. São Paulo: Cosac Naify, 2011.

Vazquez, Laura. “Loca ficción”. In: ______. Fuera de cuadro: ideas sobre la historieta. Buenos Aires: Agua Negra, 2012.

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Published

2018-05-19

Issue

No. 15: (jan-jun 2018) Dossier: Graphic novel

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QUEIROZ, Jozefh Fernando Soares; SILVA, Laureny Aparecida Lourenço da. Diego Agrimbau and Lucas Varela’s Diagnósticos: the aesthetic of comics as a form of representing mental disorders. Caracol, São Paulo, Brasil, n. 15, p. 106–143, 2018. DOI: 10.11606/issn.2317-9651.v0i15p106-143. Disponível em: https://revistas.usp.br/caracol/article/view/133939.. Acesso em: 3 dec. 2024.