Eulália’s protagonism in the comic strips construction in Téo e o Mini Mundo, by Caetano Cury

Abstract

The issue of perspective in the world is prominent in various socio-historical-cultural contexts and particularly in the language of comics. The perspective on the world says a lot about the subjects insofar as the identity of the subject has fragmented with postmodernity (Hall, 2006). Thus, from the perspective of studies in comic language, our objective is to show by descriptive analysis how the protagonism of the character Eulália, a butterfly to whom human characteristics such as speaking and thinking are attributed, is built in the first thirty strips of the first volume of Téo e the Mini Mundo : the book. From the narrative sequence of the strip to the contrast with the character Téo, the little boy, through hypotheses and even questions and answers, Eulália provokes Téo’s own perception, making him reflective. The strips mobilize approaches such as the relationship between the “self” and the “other” and the place that subjects occupy in relation to the world in which they live. The movements of Eulália that accompany Téo’s words and the scenarios will be considered to construct meanings that evidence the paths of restlessness for understanding the human. We draw on the studies of Acevedo (1990), Cagnin (2014) and Ramos (2012).