Languages, Literature&Culture 597M - ST-Mutations of Laughter

I propose an examination on the new inflections occurring in aspects of stylistic and thematic dimensions of graphic humor, in the contexts of newspaper's editorial cartooning and daily strips, in contemporary Brazilian visual culture; in such a context, I analyze the empirical universe of artists working under the most important Brazilian newspaper, Folha de Sao Paulo (such as Laerte Coutinho, Angeli, Joao Montanaro, Bennett, among others), in order to identy new inflections of visual humor - either in terms of narrative, graphic, plastic, and thematic strategies developed by these creators, as well as in contrast with social, cultural and political backgrounds of Brazilian realities of the last 35 years.