Sob o signo de capricórnio: uma experiência com quadrinhos autobiográficos

Abstract

At first, the research aimed to create a silent comic that was also autobiographical, whose title would be "Rei de Paus: memórias de carnaval que não vivi". After some pages created and theoretical postulations, I left the silent comics aside and went back to work with the development of an autobiographical comic. Now the main objective of the research is to understand how to decouple events dispersed throughout life and transform them into an autobiographical narrative. The first work carried out during the research was the “Quadrinhos em monóculos”, in which I experimented with the possibility of creating several narratives using a group of narrative units. This work led to the second, “Prólogo”, where I made pages that were used as an introduction to the autobiographical comic that, in the end, was incorporated into the final version of this comic no longer as an introduction, but with pages and frames incorporated into it. These experiments pointed me to an analogy between autobiographical narratives and the constellations of the sky. Each star would be a story, surrounded by various celestial bodies (which can be characters, scenarios), which, when observed together with others, created a narrative. The knowledge and ideas generated with these two experiences are articulated with the propositions about narrative by Thierry Groensteen (2013) and Gerard Genette (2017) and the autobiography of Philippe Lejeune (2008) and Elizabeth El-Refaie (2012).