Charges: uma prática cotidiana no Jornal Diário do Nordeste durante a década de 1980.

Abstract

This article utilize the cartoons published in the journal Diário do Nordeste during 1980 decade like object passible from reading, considering the cultural history perspective. We understand the cartoon like a journalistic text, a visual communication style socially accepted, where an idea and/or an event is analyzed and transmitted with laughable expressions and intend to be communicated at a big reader public. During the period studied, which corresponds at the first decade from journal circulation, the cartoons constructed an actuation space, divulging the representations about the news that earned prominence in Diário’s page.