O USO DO LETREIRAMENTO PARA CONSTRUÇÃO DE PERSONAGENS NOS QUADRINHOS DE SANDMAN

Abstract

Speech balloons and lettering are, generally, elements that compose the textual aspect of graphic novels, being able to determine how the text may be read and understood in this system. The research developed here focuses on these elements, emphasizing their role in the characterization of characters in graphic novels. Thus, the speech balloons and lettering of Dream, Death and Delirium in the graphic novel Sandman (1989-1996), by Neil Gaiman et al, is analyzed, observing how these elements reflect their characterization in the narrative. The studies developed by Cagnin (1975), Cirne (1972), Christin (2013), Groensteen (2015), Postema (2018), among other authors in the area and related areas, as well as notes made by Todd Klein, Sandman’s letterer, in his blog on the subject, are applied in this essay.