![]() ![]() Elements such as the balloon, the kinetic line, the onomatopoeia or even the sequential language are specific to comic books and, to a certain extent, almost propel comics to another art form, perhaps separated from literature, as a completely new genre by itself. There is no doubt that comics have their own vocabulary and style, developed in the last few decades with the aim of finding the greatest possible communion between text and image. ![]() This movement at the Frankfurt Fair raised comics to a “literary category” status as one of many subgenres of literature. Since 2000, the Frankfurt Book Fair – the world’s largest meeting in the publishing sector – has given great prominence to comics magazines, which gained a personalized hall at the event, in addition to lectures and conversations on the topic. ![]() And this is because, in a first unnoticed analysis, several factors contribute to the opposite thinking of this categorization, such as the commercial mediation of magazines through a newsstand, the stigma that they are made for children and teenage reading only, their mass production, in short, everything seems to corroborate for the evaluation of comics only as mere youth entertainment. Perceiving comics as artistic manifestations – whether in the field of literature or in the field of visual arts – seems to be an already pacified theme, not without much debate and reflection before. ![]()
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