9 Arte (São Paulo)
type: channel
description: 9ª Arte is a semiannual publication by the Observatório de Histórias em Quadrinhos of the Escola de Comunicações e Artes of Universidade de São Paulo.
publisher: Universidade de São Paulo. Escola de Comunicações e Artes
language: en
publication name: 9 Arte (São Paulo)
issn: 2316-9877
copyright: Este obra está licenciado com uma Licença Creative Commons Atribuição 4.0 Internacional.
items: Editorial Journal 9th Art, volume 13, 2025
items: Corporeality as a critical key to Comics Studies: a review of Comics beyond text and image, by Benjamin Fraser
items: Critical review of Histórias em quadrinhos: A nova arte, by Benoît Peeters
items: Corto Maltese’s trip to Bahia: dialogues with Glauber Rocha
items: El Zorro and Matthew Barney: metaphors of the border as a space of transit, hybridization, and new epistemologies
items: North in Comics and the role of collectivity in the cracks of the brazilian publishing market
items: How Julie Doucet represents herself in her graphic memoirs
items: Other adventurers: women in Hugo Pratt’s book circuit
items: Misreading and reinventing in João Pinheiro´s comics
items: When research becomes a comic: the creative process of a graphic dissertation on autofiction and the poetic-philosophical genre
items: The emancipation of the emptiness in Rosie Sherwood comics
items: A black childhood in comics? Notes from the memories of a cooperative in Rio Grande do Sul
items: Independence and Proclamation: re-reading the academic painting in the comics
items: The adventure of Cités obscures
items: When would we imagine having a Superman and a Robin openly LGBTQIAPN+?
items: The father of the sequencial art
items: Notes towards a historical study of the comic book Pepín
items: Comics and COMPÓS: a critical perspective and an epistemological relationship with communication
items: How the narrator intrusion occurs in comics: A study of Tungstênio (2014), by Marcello Quintanilha
items: Brazil’s independence in comic-strips: narrative choices
items: How to Read Benoît Peeters:Review of Lire la bande dessinée
items: Frank Miller's Batman: an analysis of the production conditions surrounding The Dark Knight Returns
items: Grass and Waiting: Korean historical representation and export through manhwa
items: From Moxoxo and Carpadia’s strips to ZiNiQues
items: A proposal for classifying changes in graphic aspects in DC and Marvel comics in Brazil
items: The alchemy of time and discourse in Fullmetal Alchemist: problematizations of rhythm in intersemiotic translation
items: Amazonian representation in three comics: a social and ecological approach
items: Instacomics without the Instagram part? – an analysis of the current scenario for publishing comics in social media
items: The “Comics in Education” category in the SciELO and Web of Science databases
items: Fanzines on the skin: the emergence of new media intersections, between tattoo and sequential art

Editorial Journal 9th Art, volume 13, 2025
type: item
description: Editorial volume 13 of journal 9th Art, published in 2025.
subject: Editorial
  topic: section
subject: História em quadrinhos
  topic: keywords
creator: Roberto Elísio dos Santos
creator: Waldomiro de Castro Santos Vergueiro
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 9 Arte (São Paulo) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-12-27
publication date: 2025-12-27
starting page: e244195
ending page: e244195
doi: 10.11606/2316-9877.2025.v12.e244195

Corporeality as a critical key to Comics Studies: a review of Comics beyond text and image, by Benjamin Fraser
type: item
description: It presents Benjamin Fraser’s Comics Beyond Text and Image as a study that proposes understanding comics as bodies in motion rather than as simple systems of representation. Grounded in philosophical approaches, Fraser redefines graphic narrative as material action, insisting that the page thinks as it moves. The text shows how the book establishes itself as a critical intervention capable of repositioning the debate in academic comics research by emphasizing materiality and graphic action as the core of the reading experience.
subject: Resenhas
  topic: section
subject: Corporality
  topic: keywords
subject: Comics Studies
  topic: keywords
subject: Benjamin Fraser (author)
  topic: keywords
creator: Márcio dos Santos Rodrigues
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 9 Arte (São Paulo) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2026-01-30
publication date: 2026-01-30
starting page: e243421
ending page: e243421
doi: 10.11606/2316-9877.2025.v14.e243421

Critical review of Histórias em quadrinhos: A nova arte, by Benoît Peeters
type: item
description: The review critically examines the Brazilian edition of Histórias em quadrinhos: A nova arte, by Benoît Peeters
subject: Resenhas
  topic: section
subject: Histórias em quadrinhos
  topic: keywords
subject: Genealogias
  topic: keywords
subject: Legitimidade cultural
  topic: keywords
subject: Estudos de quadrinhos
  topic: keywords
subject: Benoît Peeters
  topic: keywords
creator: Márcio dos Santos Rodrigues
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 9 Arte (São Paulo) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-11-16
publication date: 2025-11-16
starting page: e242866
ending page: e242866
doi: 10.11606/2316-9877.2025.v13.e242866

Corto Maltese’s trip to Bahia: dialogues with Glauber Rocha
type: item
description: It aims to analyze the comic book history “Sureshot Samba”, which is part of the album Under the sign of Capricorn, by Hugo Pratt (2006). In this narrative Pratt's famous character, the sailor Corto Maltese, arrives in Salvador, Bahia, in 1913. In the backlands, Corto strives in the struggle of an armed group led by the cangaceiro Sureshot , whose graphic representation references the character Corisco, the cangaceiro from the film Black god, white devil, (1964), by Glauber Rocha. Here we seek to clarify Pratt and Glauber's creative dialogue with support from Pratt's biography (De la Calle, 2024), a critical essay on the film (Xavier, 1983) and philosophical discussions about the experience of travel (Cardoso, 1988) and the relationship with the other, the foreigner (Stengers, 2017).
subject: Artigos
  topic: section
subject: Comics
  topic: keywords
subject: Hugo Pratt (author)
  topic: keywords
subject: Corto Maltese (character)
  topic: keywords
subject: Glauber Rocha
  topic: keywords
subject: Travel narrative.
  topic: keywords
creator: Pascoal Farinaccio
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 9 Arte (São Paulo) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-11-18
publication date: 2025-11-18
starting page: e242334
ending page: e242334
doi: 10.11606/2316-9877.Dossie.2025.e242334

El Zorro and Matthew Barney: metaphors of the border as a space of transit, hybridization, and new epistemologies
type: item
description: It proposes a reading of the figures of Zorro and Matthew Barney as metaphors of the border, understood as a space of transit and hybridization that challenges dichotomies and proposes new epistemologies. Drawing on Gloria Anzaldúa's (2012) concept of "mestiza consciousness" and Boaventura de Sousa Santos' idea of an "ecology of knowledges," we analyze how Zorro, in the comics series The Adventures of Zorro by Alex Toth (McCulley; Toth, 2022), and Barney, in his Drawing Restraint series, occupy liminal spaces. Zorro, as a hero who navigates between the Spanish aristocracy and countercolonial resistance in what is now known as California, represents the border as a site of conflict and reinvention. Barney, on the other hand, explores the hybridization of art and sport, destabilizing dichotomies such as body/mind and human/animal. The methodology includes content analysis of Barney's works and Toth's comic, articulating them with the ideas of authors such as Gloria Anzaldúa (2012), María Lugones (2008), Gilles Deleuze (1992), Jacques Derrida (1995), and Rafael Haddock-Lobo (2021). We conclude that Zorro and Barney, each in their own way, offer pathways for rethinking borders as spaces of creation and transformation, proposing new epistemologies through the metaphor of the border.
subject: Artigos
  topic: section
subject: Border
  topic: keywords
subject: Hybridization
  topic: keywords
subject: Epistemology
  topic: keywords
subject: El Zorro (character)
  topic: keywords
subject: Matthew Barney (author)
  topic: keywords
creator: Flávio Célio Rodrigues Oliveira
creator: Aryanne Araújo
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 9 Arte (São Paulo) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-11-18
publication date: 2025-11-18
starting page: e242167
ending page: e242167
doi: 10.11606/2316-9877.Dossie.2025.e242167

North in Comics and the role of collectivity in the cracks of the brazilian publishing market
type: item
description: It aims to understand the work of the North in Comics project, examining its trajectory both in cyberspace and in physical contexts. The analysis is based on Pierre Lévy's (1999) studies on social dynamics in the digital age, Michel Maffesoli's (1995) reflections on contemporary forms of sociability, and Sá and Vergueiro's (2015) contributions on the production, circulation, and consumption of comics. The research adopts cartography as its methodology (Rosário, 2008; Kastrup, 2009), seeking to reconstruct the trajectory of the project's actions since its inception. By functioning as a catalyst for intercultural dialogue, North in Comics contributes to strengthening the visibility of Amazonian narratives and aesthetics in the national comics scene.
subject: Artigos
  topic: section
subject: North in Comics
  topic: keywords
subject: Collectivity
  topic: keywords
subject: Publishing market
  topic: keywords
creator: Francinete Botelho
creator: Ellen Aline da Silva de Sousa
creator: Marina Ramos Neves de Castro
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 9 Arte (São Paulo) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2026-01-30
publication date: 2026-01-30
starting page: e241866
ending page: e241866
doi: 10.11606/2316-9877.2025.v14.e241866

How Julie Doucet represents herself in her graphic memoirs
type: item
description: Based on the semiology of images, this paper aims to highlight how Julie Doucet represented herself in My New York Diary, one of her graphic memoirs. To achieve the proposed objective, the methodological path sought to carry out a reflective analysis, considering that when exploring a frame in a graphic novel according to its semiology, several codes are mentioned, including the pictorial code that inspired this reflection. Within this context, images in graphic memoirs can aggregate meanings in multiple ways, and, simultaneously, these elements perform functions of numerous different signs that we sought to observe. Consequently, it was possible to verify that in a single static frame of a graphic memoir, we could find codes of human expression and gestures, spatial codes, and the possibilities of temporal and narrative codes. Julie Doucet uses the excess of information in her graphic memoirs to add a series of meanings to the pictorial elements of her narrative.
subject: Artigos
  topic: section
subject: Graphic novel
  topic: keywords
subject: Graphic memoir
  topic: keywords
subject: Identity
  topic: keywords
subject: Visual metaphor
  topic: keywords
subject: Julie Doucet (author)
  topic: keywords
creator: Ana Carolina Oliveira
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 9 Arte (São Paulo) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2026-01-31
publication date: 2026-01-31
starting page: e241832
ending page: e241832
doi: 10.11606/2316-9877.2025.v14.e241832

Other adventurers: women in Hugo Pratt’s book circuit
type: item
description: The aim of this study is to look at the editorial career of comics artist Hugo Pratt and analyze it from a gender perspective. However, this approach does not focus on the female representation in the characters created by the author, but rather on the traces of the real women who made up a workforce, often invisible, in the author's comics. Using methodologies from the History of Books and Reading, analyzing Pratt’s “reading circuit”, we seek to identify female agents with direct participation in the construction of the author’s bibliography. Understanding this process allows us to understand that women have historically occupied positions in the editorial field, but the inequality and asymmetry of power in the field becomes evident.
subject: Artigos
  topic: section
subject: Comics
  topic: keywords
subject: Gender
  topic: keywords
subject: Edition
  topic: keywords
subject: Matilde Finzi (author)
  topic: keywords
subject: Gisela Dester (author)
  topic: keywords
creator: Gabriel Luiz Mais Nascimento
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 9 Arte (São Paulo) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-11-18
publication date: 2025-11-18
starting page: e241823
ending page: e241823
doi: 10.11606/2316-9877.Dossie.2025.e241823

Misreading and reinventing in João Pinheiro´s comics
type: item
description: It examines the work of Brazilian comic artist João Pinheiro, focusing on his adaptations of literary works into comics, specifically Kerouac (2011), Burroughs (2015), and Carolina (2016). The aim is to investigate how Pinheiro employs misreading (Bloom, 1995) as a tactic, deviant and creative form of cultural resistance, a kind of antidote to the anxiety of influence in the process of reinventing the biographies and works of authors such as Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, and Carolina Maria de Jesus. His adaptations transcend mere transcoding and become autonomous works. The method used is a critical analysis of the comics, based on theorists such as Linda Hutcheon (2013), Harold Bloom (1995), and Jorge Menna Barreto (2012), to discuss the relationship between adaptation, originality, and intertextuality. The results show that Pinheiro challenges the hierarchy between the original work and its adaptation, proposing a creative and deviant reading that reinterprets the source texts and contextualizes them within the contemporary Brazilian setting. The research concludes that Pinheiro's adaptations are a form of cultural resistance, updating and reinterpreting classic works for a new audience.
subject: Artigos
  topic: section
subject: Adaptation
  topic: keywords
subject: Misreading
  topic: keywords
subject: Intertextuality
  topic: keywords
subject: João Pinheiro (author)
  topic: keywords
creator: Valter do Carmo Moreira
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 9 Arte (São Paulo) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-11-18
publication date: 2025-11-18
starting page: e241813
ending page: e241813
doi: 10.11606/2316-9877.Dossie.2025.e241813

When research becomes a comic: the creative process of a graphic dissertation on autofiction and the poetic-philosophical genre
type: item
description: It aims to present and discuss the creative process of a master's dissertation in art and visual culture, which is currently in progress and being developed entirely in a comic book format. In this manner, the language of comics is explored and introduced as a legitimate form of academic production in stricto sensu postgraduate studies in Brazil. The dissertation focuses on the study of autofiction, a genre originated in literature in which the author inserts themselves into the narrative and blends fiction and reality, within the context of comics, with an emphasis on poetic-philosophical comics. The latter is a genre of comics characterized by authorial expression, poetic, philosophical, and reflective intentions. The adopted methodology is exploratory and bibliographical regarding the theoretical aspects of the investigation, while the artistic production follows a practical and experimental approach. Initial results indicate that the comic book format of the dissertation can expand the expressive and formal possibilities of the research, allowing for the simultaneous exploration of comics theory and practice, innovating the conventional structure of academic research. Thus, this study highlights the potential of comics as a legitimate way to present research and academic work
subject: Artigos
  topic: section
subject: Creative Process
  topic: keywords
subject: Poetic-Philosophical Comics
  topic: keywords
subject: Autofiction
  topic: keywords
subject: Comics
  topic: keywords
creator: Duane Ribeiro Machado Ramos de Melo
creator: Edgar Silveira Franco
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 9 Arte (São Paulo) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-11-18
publication date: 2025-11-18
starting page: e241809
ending page: e241809
doi: 10.11606/2316-9877.Dossie.2025.e241809

The emancipation of the emptiness in Rosie Sherwood comics
type: item
description: Rosie Sherwood describes herself as “an artist and writer focused on interdisciplinary practices”. She works with themes such as evanescence and disappearance, producing works with holes and transparencies. Her works explore different media and languages, with the recurrence of printed objects. In these objects, it is possible to highlight five works that use elements from comic books as their core topic. These works raise questions about the limits of this media and propose contaminations with graphic arts and sculpture, expanding all areas involved. From a perspective that consists of the theory of the expanded field of arts, the objective here is to analyse how, in these five works, the author develops the themes of emptiness as a graphic, poetic, and discursive tool, while expands the possibilities of the comics language through contamination with other arts.
subject: Artigos
  topic: section
subject: Comics
  topic: keywords
subject: Visual Arts
  topic: keywords
subject: Artist book
  topic: keywords
subject: Empty spaces
  topic: keywords
subject: extended field
  topic: keywords
creator: Caetano Galindo Borges
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 9 Arte (São Paulo) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-11-18
publication date: 2025-11-18
starting page: e241275
ending page: e241275
doi: 10.11606/2316-9877.Dossie.2025.e241275

A black childhood in comics? Notes from the memories of a cooperative in Rio Grande do Sul
type: item
description: It discusses CETPA, a comics cooperative established in Rio Grande do Sul during the early 1960s as part of a broader project of nationalizing comics in Brazil. It takes CETPA as a starting point for topics such as the challenges of conducting historical research on comics in Brazil. It underscores the absence of comics’ archival policies and the contested nature of comics memories. Within this framework, Bingo – a comic strip created by Aylton Thomaz – emerges as particularly significant for offering one of the rare representations of Black childhood in Brazilian comics. Set in Rio de Janeiro and grounded in popular and urban practices, it challenges stereotypes and opens space for new readings on Blackness and popular culture. The article thus advances a historiographical reflection that highlights the importance of incorporating Black perspectives into the writing of comics history in Brazil.
subject: Artigos
  topic: section
subject: Brazilian history
  topic: keywords
subject: Comics
  topic: keywords
subject: Memory
  topic: keywords
subject: Chidhood
  topic: keywords
subject: Race
  topic: keywords
creator: Ivan Lima Gomes
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 9 Arte (São Paulo) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-08-29
publication date: 2025-08-29
starting page: e240574
ending page: e240574
doi: 10.11606/2316-9877.2025.v13.e240574

Independence and Proclamation: re-reading the academic painting in the comics
type: item
description: It examines the graphic and ideological relationships between historical painting and Brazilian comic book productions that revolve around the Proclamation of Independence and the establishment of the Republic in Brazil. An iconological approach is employed to analyze and compare the graphic and ideological meanings arising from the citation of academic paintings as references in the production of nine Brazilian comic books whose themes address the cultural and political history of the Empire and the early Republic. Six of these works were produced in the 21st century, and two in the 1970s, during the military dictatorship. The aim is to identify various forms of interaction between these two media of communication - the erudite pictorial and the popular comics -, in order to expand the understanding of their intermedial relationship.
subject: Artigos
  topic: section
subject: Visual communication
  topic: keywords
subject: Academic painting
  topic: keywords
subject: Iconology
  topic: keywords
subject: Comics
  topic: keywords
creator: João Pedro de Oliveira Martins
creator: Marcelly dos Santos Ramos
creator: Alberto Knewitz Lima
creator: Marcus Vinícius de Paula
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 9 Arte (São Paulo) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-10-27
publication date: 2025-10-27
starting page: e238771
ending page: e238771
doi: 10.11606/2316-9877.2025.v13.e238771

The adventure of Cités obscures
type: item
description: Describes the creative process of the comics series The Obscure Cities, by Benoit Peeters and François Schuiten, since the moment both authors met during their young years. Analyses the several cities created, as Samaria and Urbicande. Relates the structure o The Obscure Cities with the game Go. Identifies the authors’ main influences for the creation of the comics.
subject: Artigo Internacional
  topic: section
subject: Cités Obscures (title)
  topic: keywords
subject: Comics - France
  topic: keywords
subject: Comics - Science fiction
  topic: keywords
creator: Benoit Peeters
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 9 Arte (São Paulo) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-08-14
publication date: 2025-08-14
starting page: e240086
ending page: e240086
doi: 10.11606/2316-9877.2025.v13.e240086

When would we imagine having a Superman and a Robin openly LGBTQIAPN+?
type: item
description: Review of the book SuperGays: mais de 180 super-heróis fora do armário, by Guilherme Smee, or Guilherme Sfredo Miorando. The author is a name that any researcher studying the universe of LGBTI+ representation in comics has likely come across. As such, the release of Supergays, by Smee (2024), is a welcome surprise for studies in this field of inquiry. Despite some limitations in the material, the book serves as an excellent entry point for those seeking an introductory path into the topic. In certain sections, the text takes on a more fragmentary character, and there are some redundancies and issues that could have been explored in greater depth.
subject: Resenhas
  topic: section
subject: Superheroes
  topic: keywords
subject: LGBTQIAPN+
  topic: keywords
subject: Guilherme Smee (author)
  topic: keywords
subject: Supergays (title)
  topic: keywords
creator: Mário Jorge de Paiva
creator: Gustavo Cravo de Azevedo
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 9 Arte (São Paulo) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-08-12
publication date: 2025-08-12
starting page: e239832
ending page: e239832
doi: 10.11606/2316-9877.2025.v13.e239832

The father of the sequencial art
type: item
description: It presents the review of the book Génie de la bande dessinée: de Rudolphe Töpffer à Emil Ferris, by Benoit Peeters.
subject: Resenhas
  topic: section
subject: Rodolphe Töpffer (author)
  topic: keywords
subject: Comics - Beginning
  topic: keywords
creator: Roberto Elísio dos Santos
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 9 Arte (São Paulo) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-07-18
publication date: 2025-07-18
starting page: e239363
ending page: e239363
doi: 10.11606/2316-9877.2025.v13.e239363

Notes towards a historical study of the comic book Pepín
type: item
description: It presents a preliminary approach to reconstructing the history of Pepín, one of the most representative publications of Mexican comics during the so-called Golden Age, which spanned from the 1930s to the 1950s. By consulting all available issues held at the Hemeroteca Nacional de México - approximately 2,500 comic books -, the study reconstructs its editorial trajectory, identifies its main contents, and examines its connection to the social context of the time. The aim is to highlight the relevance of Pepín within popular print culture and to lay the groundwork for broader research.
subject: Artigo Internacional
  topic: section
subject: Comics - Mexico
  topic: keywords
subject: Pepín (title)
  topic: keywords
subject: ´Golden age
  topic: keywords
creator: Laura Nallely Hernández Nieto
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 9 Arte (São Paulo) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-07-15
publication date: 2025-07-15
starting page: e239227
ending page: e239227
doi: 10.11606/2316-9877.2025.v13.e239227

Comics and COMPÓS: a critical perspective and an epistemological relationship with communication
type: item
description: It presents a reflection on the development of the state of the art for an ongoing thesis. Its objective is to analyze how COMPÓS, one of the largest Communication events in Brazil, addresses comics, employing the method proposed by Barichello (2016). Based on the results obtained, an epistemological reflection is proposed on the relationship between comics and communication, grounded in the works of Cirne (1970, 1975), Cagnin (1975), Luyten (1987), Barbieri (2017), Sousanis (2017), and Hatfield (2010). The findings reveal not only the connection between comics and communication but also highlight the interdisciplinary nature that characterizes these two fields of knowledge.
subject: Artigos
  topic: section
subject: Comics
  topic: keywords
subject: Communication
  topic: keywords
subject: State of the art
  topic: keywords
subject: Epistemology
  topic: keywords
subject: Interdisciplinarity
  topic: keywords
creator: Thiago Henrique Gonçalves Alves
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 9 Arte (São Paulo) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-07-16
publication date: 2025-07-16
starting page: e238724
ending page: e238724
doi: 10.11606/2316-9877.2025.v13.e238724

How the narrator intrusion occurs in comics: A study of Tungstênio (2014), by Marcello Quintanilha
type: item
description: The narrator of Tungstênio, a graphic novel by Marcello Quintanilha (2014), can be characterized as “intrusive” (Moreira, 2021). In the comics, the lives of four characters are intertwined, and their stories are permeated by a narrator who, in an ironic and provocative tone, actively guides and interferes in the reading process. In this sense, considering the types of narration proposed by Thierry Groensteen (2011), how can this behavior of the narrative instance be understood? In which aspects does it manifest itself? This article, based on these questions, aims to establish a dialogue between literary theory and comics theory, grounding the discussion in Quintanilha's work.
subject: Artigos
  topic: section
subject: Comics
  topic: keywords
subject: Narrator
  topic: keywords
subject: Intrusive narrator
  topic: keywords
subject: Marcelo Quintanilha (author)
  topic: keywords
creator: Lielson Zeni
creator: Gabriel Lucas Martins Cavalcanti
creator: Mariana Ferreira Gonçalves
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 9 Arte (São Paulo) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-09-29
publication date: 2025-09-29
starting page: e238178
ending page: e238178
doi: 10.11606/2316-9877.2025.v13.e238178

Brazil’s independence in comic-strips: narrative choices
type: item
description: It discusses, from a historiographical point of view, the narrative choices found in the series of comic strips História da Independência do Brasil, written by Heitor Muniz and Francisco Sampaio, published in the newspaper O Dia (1972), from Rio de Janeiro, on the celebrations of the 150th anniversary of Brazil's independence. Behind the comic strip, the historical context of civil-military dictatorship and conservative historiographical assumptions that praise the “Heroes of the Fatherland” compete with an exclusionary, slave-owning, authoritarian national reality. During the research, we aimed to problematize these narrative choices, revealing other possibilities for understanding Brazil's Independence, highlighting the participation of women and slaves in the wars of independence.
subject: Artigos
  topic: section
subject: Brazil’s Independence
  topic: keywords
subject: Periodical Press
  topic: keywords
subject: Historiography
  topic: keywords
subject: Comic strip
  topic: keywords
creator: Leonardo da Costa Ferreira
creator: Raquel França dos Santos Ferreira
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 9 Arte (São Paulo) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-10-18
publication date: 2024-10-18
starting page: e231080
ending page: e231080
doi: 10.11606/2316-9877.Dossie.2024.e231080

How to Read Benoît Peeters:Review of Lire la bande dessinée
type: item
description: It examines Benoît Peeters´s (2003) book Lire la bande dessinée, which offers a multifaceted approach to comics as an artistic language. Peeters explores fundamental tensions, such as the duality between narrative linearity and visual simultaneity, the relationship between text and image, and the historical evolution tied to printing technologies. The book, divided into five chapters, addresses topics ranging from page structure to creative processes, arguing that the strength of comics lies in their ability to integrate contradictions. Peeters rejects reductive definitions, emphasizing the medium's plasticity and its capacity to bridge academic thought and artistic practice.
subject: Resenhas
  topic: section
subject: comics studies
  topic: keywords
subject: narrative and pictorial
  topic: keywords
subject: linear and tabular
  topic: keywords
creator: Valter do Carmo Moreira
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 9 Arte (São Paulo) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-06-06
publication date: 2025-06-06
starting page: e236454
ending page: e236454
doi: 10.11606/2316-9877.2025.v13.e236454

Frank Miller's Batman: an analysis of the production conditions surrounding The Dark Knight Returns
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description: This article analyzes Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns using Michael Baxandall's theories, emphasizing the impact of the 1980s' historical, cultural, and economic conditions on the creation of the graphic novel. Baxandall argues that understanding a work requires considering the artist's intentions within context, exemplified by the construction of the Forth Bridge. Miller's story addresses social issues like urban violence and nuclear threats, symbolizing the clash between individual autonomy (Batman) and state subservience (Superman), reflecting Cold War criticisms. The article also discusses the influence of other media and the context of adult-oriented comics at the time.
subject: Artigos
  topic: section
subject: Frank Miller (author)
  topic: keywords
subject: Comics
  topic: keywords
subject: Cold War
  topic: keywords
subject: Superheroes
  topic: keywords
creator: Joaquim Cardia Ghirotti
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 9 Arte (São Paulo) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-10-18
publication date: 2024-10-18
starting page: e231112
ending page: e231112
doi: 10.11606/2316-9877.Dossie.2024.e231112

Grass and Waiting: Korean historical representation and export through manhwa
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description: Aware of the success of the Korean Pop Culture movement and the visibility of the comic books Grass (2017) and The Wait (2020), both by South Korean author Keum Suk Gendry-Kim, this work aims to demonstrate how narratives within this literary genre of comics in South Korea - called manhwas - have acted as a tool to reinterpret the country's historical past and make it accessible to the reading public, while surfing a rising cultural wave which aims to export a new national identity, opening several doors for the consumption of literature in its various formats, as well as for the presentation of the South Korean vision of its own history, reinterpreted in common characters in society.
subject: Artigos
  topic: section
subject: South Korea
  topic: keywords
subject: Manhwas
  topic: keywords
subject: Hallyu
  topic: keywords
subject: Identity
  topic: keywords
subject: Asian history
  topic: keywords
creator: Mariana Seminati Pacheco
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 9 Arte (São Paulo) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-05-01
publication date: 2025-05-01
starting page: e235892
ending page: e235892
doi: 10.11606/2316-9877.2025.v13.e235892

From Moxoxo and Carpadia’s strips to ZiNiQues
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description: The connection between fanzines and comic books in Brazil is well known. Between 1980 and 1990, a large part of the national production came from authors who published in fanzines, due to the difficulty of doing it in regular publishing houses. Although Brazilian comics have already carved out their own space, many authors still create comics independently. The work of the artist Martinique Schultz (aka Nique), with her characters published in accordion-style zines and showcased on the Internet, is an example of this independent stance. Schultz also created what we call artzines, fold-outs with different designs and poetic compositions in an innovative, formal and conceptual project. This article focuses on the relationship between comics/strips/zines and artzines based on the work of Nique, drawing on the references pointed out by Andraus, Batey, Guerra, Magalhães, and Zavam.
subject: Artigos
  topic: section
subject: Comics
  topic: keywords
subject: Alternative comics
  topic: keywords
subject: Fanzines
  topic: keywords
subject: Zines
  topic: keywords
subject: Design
  topic: keywords
creator: Ana Paula Hoffmann Frittoli Basaglia
creator: Gazy Andraus
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 9 Arte (São Paulo) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-10-18
publication date: 2024-10-18
starting page: e231064
ending page: e231064
doi: 10.11606/2316-9877.Dossie.2024.e231064

A proposal for classifying changes in graphic aspects in DC and Marvel comics in Brazil
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description: The aim is to present a classification of the different types of graphic changes in Marvel and DC comics, published by various Brazilian publishers. Some characteristics of editorial and translation issues are revisited (Assis, 2016), the concepts of domestication and foreignization (Rota, 2008), the concept of linguistic, typographic and pictorial groups (Kaindl, 1999), as well as the Brazilian context of alteration of art (Souza; Muniz, 2020). For the classification, the elements of the comics were divided into macro and micro elements. Through the analysis of several Brazilian versions of the comics, a classification was obtained that lists the various changes in the art. Due to the change from the American format to the formatinho size, several elements were lost, and the Brazilian version could deviate further from the original version depending on the number of changes. It was found that the domestication technique was very common in Brazil, while foreignization predominates in current materials.
subject: Artigos
  topic: section
subject: Art
  topic: keywords
subject: Comics
  topic: keywords
subject: Translation
  topic: keywords
subject: Graphic alteration
  topic: keywords
creator: Luiz Ricardo Gonsalez Micheletti
creator: Rosa Yokota
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 9 Arte (São Paulo) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-10-18
publication date: 2024-10-18
starting page: e234707
ending page: e234707
doi: 10.11606/2316-9877.Dossie.2024.e234707

The alchemy of time and discourse in Fullmetal Alchemist: problematizations of rhythm in intersemiotic translation
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description: It aims to problematize the rhythm in intersemiotic translations of the manga series Fullmetal Alchemist (Arakawa, 2016-2017), by Hiromu Arakawa. Product of a Masters dissertation currently in development, the problematizations are justified by the distinct possibilities for (re)organizing a discourse and its forms of meaning in narrative arts translated into other semiotic means. Based on the dialogue between the theory of rhythm (Meschonnic, 2010) and intersemiotic translation (Plaza, 2013), along with the constitutive elements of comics (McCloud, 1995), this work analyses, in a sample selected via analytical relevance, the legisigns adopted in Fullmetal Alchemist’s intersemiotic translations, into anime and live-action, and how they relate to the development of the narrative’s time stream and their impact in the discourse’s forms of meaning. As main results, the analyses shows that there were a discourse’s (re)organization, regarding the time stream, from the manga to the intersemiotic translations, and that such (re)organization establishes a specific reading of the narrative, which although still corresponds to the source text, distinguishes the discourse’s forms of meaning.
subject: Artigos
  topic: section
subject: Intersemiotic translation
  topic: keywords
subject: Theory of rhythm
  topic: keywords
subject: Fullmetal Alchemist (title)
  topic: keywords
creator: Charlie Milo Bergo
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 9 Arte (São Paulo) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-10-18
publication date: 2024-10-18
starting page: e231081
ending page: e231081
doi: 10.11606/2316-9877.Dossie.2024.e230181

Amazonian representation in three comics: a social and ecological approach
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description: It aims to present a short history of the importance of comics from the state of Pará, Brazil, especially the importance of the comics collectives that were created in the 1990s and the importance of the calls for proposals for comics production in Belém do Pará. The comics of this period contributed a political vision of the world that is reflected in the narratives of the comics produced in the city of Belém do Pará to this day. In this sense, we also analyzed three comic narratives that deal with the theme of the Amazon and show a dialogical relationship with environmental issues and the preservation of cultural identities in the North of Brazil. This article draws on the theoretical contributions of Angelim (2020), Costa (2021) and Loureiro (2022).
subject: Artigos
  topic: section
subject: Amazonia
  topic: keywords
subject: Comics
  topic: keywords
subject: Arts
  topic: keywords
subject: Amazon discourse
  topic: keywords
creator: Francisco Pereira Smith Júnior
creator: Amanda Modesto
creator: Keoma Calandrini
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 9 Arte (São Paulo) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-01-15
publication date: 2025-01-15
starting page: e233548
ending page: e233548
doi: 10.11606/2316-9877.2025.v13.e233548

Instacomics without the Instagram part? – an analysis of the current scenario for publishing comics in social media
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description: Since its creation, Instagram has shown itself to be an interesting place for publishing comics in a digital medium, being the author attracted by its low costs and by how easily one can reach a potential reading audience through it. However, the constant alterations in the platform’s algorithm and on its main goal, which is currently for posting videos instead of pictures, has caused a decrease in both the visualization of the comics published in it and in the authors’ satisfaction regarding the platform. Thus, it is possible to notice a search towards alternatives for publishing comics in digital media. This papers aims at analyzing, by monitoring thirty-two Brazilian artists’ profiles on Instagram, the scenario for comics publishing in this social media, as we seek to verify if it is still a valid and sought-after option for doing so, and also if it is possible to identify any kind of movement in search of new digital spaces for publishing comics.
subject: Artigos
  topic: section
subject: Comic strips
  topic: keywords
subject: Comics
  topic: keywords
subject: Digital comics
  topic: keywords
subject: Social media
  topic: keywords
creator: Maiara Alvim de Almeida
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 9 Arte (São Paulo) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-10-18
publication date: 2024-10-18
starting page: e231082
ending page: e231082
doi: 10.11606/2316-9877.Dossie.2024.e231082

The “Comics in Education” category in the SciELO and Web of Science databases
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description: Its main objective was to identify research on comics in education, indexed in the Web of Science and SciELO databases. It is a qualitative, exploratory approach characterized as a survey research, with the aim of mapping and analyzing the trends and approaches in the selected studies. Among some of the results, the four articles found on SciELO are in dialog with other thematic areas, such as linguistics, health and the arts. In what regards to the articles found on Web of Science, the research revealed that all of them are in the field of education, specifically in the areas of teaching, but also in dialog with other areas, such as natural sciences and exact sciences. However, although comics have been recognized as a pedagogical resource in scientific literature. researched, it is still little explored in the field of the arts.
subject: Artigos
  topic: section
subject: Arts
  topic: keywords
subject: Comics
  topic: keywords
subject: Indexing
  topic: keywords
subject: Database
  topic: keywords
creator: Lays Barroso da Silva
creator: Gustavo Cunha de Araujo
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 9 Arte (São Paulo) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-01-15
publication date: 2025-01-15
starting page: e233251
ending page: e233251
doi: 10.11606/2316-9877.2025.v13.e233251

Fanzines on the skin: the emergence of new media intersections, between tattoo and sequential art
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description: The objective of this preliminary research is to investigate the point of convergence between tattooing as an artistic practice and sequential art, using an artistic performance as an example of this artistic union. The focus is to discover new forms of narratives that can be transferred to the skin, drawing inspiration from typical elements of sequential arts — including comics, fanzines, comics and post-comics. By combining these artistic currents, the aim is to create new artistic genres.
subject: Artigos
  topic: section
subject: Tattoo
  topic: keywords
subject: Fanzine
  topic: keywords
subject: Sequential art
  topic: keywords
creator: Rennan Pereira Queiroz
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 9 Arte (São Paulo) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-10-18
publication date: 2024-10-18
starting page: e230909
ending page: e230909
doi: 10.11606/2316-9877.Dossie.2024.e230909