Thursday, October 13, 2005

Brazilian Comics and Comix

Brazilian Comics and Comix by Flávio Mário de Alcântara Calazans (abstract here)

abstract:
This paper relates a continuum exploratory researche of the comic books production made in Brazil, historically authorial, compared with the production commercial-editorial, comproved for study of the authors more recognized and productive, whose influences come from the super-heroes of the USA, from the USA underground comix, from the Japanese manga, from Europe and also of Middle East (Arabia and Lebanon). Demonstrate the emergence of the kind of author-researcher, which emerges from underground comix to the printed comic books and to the university as teacher with Ph.D. thesis on comics.


Keywords: comics, comix, Brazilian authors.

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filed under: South America; Brazil