Comic strip as a reality transforming agent: an analysis of Henfil’s graphic humor in the book “Diretas já!”

Authors

  • Marcio Acselrad
  • Ilo Aguiar Reginaldo Alexandre

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5216/vis.v8i2.18284

Abstract

Henfil was one of the most important cartoonists of Brazil. His vast body of work marked the period when the military dictatorship was in power. The present paper intends to infer the ideology that guided his drawings. Bearing this in mind, we conducted a brief history of Henfil’s political humor. We demonstrate how laughter can help initiate the fall of a political institution and be the creator of a new one. The methodology we adopted to examine the ideology of his cartoons was the semiotics of Greimas.

Keywords: Henfil, caricature, humor

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Published

2012-04-27

How to Cite

ACSELRAD, M.; REGINALDO ALEXANDRE, I. A. Comic strip as a reality transforming agent: an analysis of Henfil’s graphic humor in the book “Diretas já!”. Visualidades, Goiânia, v. 8, n. 2, 2012. DOI: 10.5216/vis.v8i2.18284. Disponível em: https://revistas.ufg.br/VISUAL/article/view/18284. Acesso em: 16 aug. 2024.

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Vol. 8 No. 2 (2010)

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