Lord Fanny, queer representation and a voodoo doll for the world
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4013/fem.2018.201.09Abstract
This article presents an analysis of the construction of the character Lord Fanny, from the comic book The Invisibles, published by Vertigo – a DC Comics publishing label. Written by Grant Morrisson, the series was not only a new approach to the genre of superheroes but also a transposition of the worldview and of the author’s experiences, in order to transform our own reality – in the words of Morrisson, some sort of “voodoo doll”. Lord Fanny, in particular – a Brazilian transvestite witch of Mexican descent –, brought to the mainstream comics the aesthetic experience of the queer, breaking the standard heteronormativity common to the genre and bringing the series proposal closer to Serge Moscovici’s proposition on the fundamental role of Mass communication in the transformation of the current representations in society.
Keywords: comic books, social representation, queer.
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