Collective authorship in Joe Sacco’s comic strips
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4013/fem.2018.203.02Abstract
The aim of this article is to describe and discuss the notion of “collective authorship” (Medina) in Joe Sacco’s journalistic comics published in Brazil. To understand the structuring of these narratives, we apply the concepts of the narrator as a distinct entity of the author and we explain the relationship between protagonists and the character-narrator, a strategic voice that emerges at decisive moments to demarcate his authorship. The alternation of voices originates in the process of reporting in the field, in which the interviews predominate. They reach, in many of the possible situations, the level of cultural exchange, superior to the mere transmission of information. Assuming, with Bakhtin, that the dialogues constitute the real units of discourse, in the journalistic comics signed by Joe Sacco, collective authorship has at least two fundamental aspects, the dialogue and the dialogical one.
Keywords: authorship, reporting, Joe Sacco.
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