University of Brasilia - UNB

Institute of Arts - IdA

Department of Visual Arts - Vis

The importance of Comics

for Education

Mauro Cesar Oliveira Bandeira

Brasilia, December 2007

University of Brasilia - UNB

Institute of Arts - IdA
Department of Visual Arts - Vis

The importance of Comics for Education

Mauro Cesar Oliveira Bandeira

Completion of course work of Plastic Arts,

Qualification Degree, Department of

Visual Arts Institute of Arts

University of Brasilia.
Advisor: Prof. Cristina Azra Barrenechea

Brasilia, December 2007

SUMMARY
Apresentao..................................................................
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Objetivo...........................................................................
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Justificativa.....................................................................
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Theoretical
Foundation ................................................ ....................
.pg. 8
Proposal for Creating a Workshop
Sequential
Art
at
the
University .............................................. ......... pg.20
Comics
workshops ............................................... .....................
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Concluso.......................................................................
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Bibliography ................................................. ................
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Presentation
This study discusses the importance of comics
for education and proposes the discussion of the
development of a discipline Creation in Sequential Art
(comics, strips, cartoons, cartoons, vignettes) in the
curriculum of undergraduate courses in Arts Visual
Design and Communication.
Goal
This project seeks to reflect on the importance
of the use of comics in education, in its different
pedagogical possibilities.
This project explores the potential and to open
up a space in college to college critically discuss the
need to create courses aimed at training in Sequential
Art.

Justification

The choice of the theme of this monograph is

due to the fact that I always enjoyed reading comics. I
believe, as I do, children and young people would also
like to learn more about techniques of how to produce
their own comic strips.
I think about a lot of possibilities to see the Comics - HQ
- as an area of great importance for training in all levels
of education: primary, secondary and higher. I am very
optimistic at all that I intend to design and put my
dreams and goals to achieve them in the future. I know
there are many bureaucracies and lack of will largely of
people who only believe in the financial performance of
any enterprise, and we live in a world of appearances
and status.
As everyone knows the comics are for fun and
entertainment, but its use is still low as a vehicle for
research and teaching.
In elementary and secondary education, comics
are not yet included as program content in school
curricula, and even as a teaching methodology to teach
other subjects such as English language, mathematics,
geography, etc.
It is observed that in the age groups of
elementary and high school there FMCG comics for
student audience. Comic books help children and young
people to consolidate their reading habits and
understanding of ideas, not to mention the potential of
comics in working curricula because of its wide
acceptance.

If we can observe that children and young people have

very ingrained habits of reading comic books, it can be
said that this interest is being slightly tapped by the
school.
Sequential art is not yet present in the
classroom, as a language that helps to integrate the
curricular content with the culture, the language and the
interest of children.
The experiences that are observed here and
there are still too timid in opposition to the great need
and the great potential of this language that has a
captive audience among the young.
In schools, some Portuguese-speaking teachers
use comics to work different content and teaching
strategies. When this happens, interest in the text
supported by sequential art images is common among
students of different ages and cultures.
Due to a number of favorable factors to the
didactic use of comics in the classroom, we see a great
need to integrate this language as content and as a
teaching method in elementary schools.
Already in secondary schools and higher there is a
great demand for courses and disciplines in Sequential
Art Creation that will promote the formation of comic
artists, cartoonists, cartoonists and to supply a growing
demand for professionals in this area. None of these
areas is being supplied in accordance with a potential
labor market and the huge creators of educational
opportunities in Sequential Art in our nation.

Apparently, the language of sequential art not find the

wide recognition in higher education courses in Arts,
Communication and Design, as we found often
mandatory or elective courses that deal in training skills
in the creation and production of "sequential art". At
most observed isolated initiatives in the academic
curriculum, or extension projects, and even then with a
mainly theoretical approach.
As well as the Fashion, the Sequential Art has
not earned his place in the undergraduate curricula and
in the curricula of vocational or technical courses.
However, we can say that the comics enjoy an
appreciation of the public. But despite constituting a
very popular language, this art seems marginal
compared with the institutional support they receive
other Arts.
We know that the stories in Brazilian comics are
not recognized as literature, but in this case I see that a
great injustice is not to consider the work of our
designers as literary works.
We noticed a need to value the Sequential Art
promoting this language to the status of other
Arts. Currently comics are considered the ninth art,
without however enjoy the status of eight other artistic
languages.
At a future time I intend to develop a workshop
for teaching creation of comics. Your planning is still
underway. The workshop planning as a whole, I will
close not encouraging as new researchers add more

ideas to thereby improve the initial idea that is still an

embryo.
The university project of comics is very utopian, but we
must face it seriously sometimes madness is necessary
for something to go forward, normal people are very
linear do not go beyond formal logic and reasoning,
which even we want to go against these false moral
rules imposed by capitalism. One of the main laws of
capitalism is that without money one is no one to go
against this satanic principle, we will create a university
without any money, what we'll do is show talents of
these people have not had the opportunity to get in a
"normal" university.
Every educational system is intended to provide
opportunities for richer and better prepared and
therefore eliminate those who are outside that
system. This educational logic is guided throughout the
system, for it is broken it takes people to sympathize
with that because we must accept everything that
comes to us to rule, to take our opportunities, this work
is being harshly criticized by some alienated students
and They are inserted partly because the arts do not
receive investment from the government why they do
not see interest in his teaching.
Artists must be aware of his lonely struggle
against all prejudices. This social class division system
considers us unable to carry out any project, so we will
commit ourselves to do so without help from anyone we

do not need comments from anyone, we just rescue

people through sequential art. We're not worried about
what others will speak of us, because we want to be
independent of that antiquated educational system that
criticizes us, we do not know of silly competitions and
unfounded criticism and so we will go ahead with our
project.
Comic strips have an incredible power to pass
messages on complex and complicated events. No
wonder that the cartoonists use to describe political
events only with a frame. Let's say someone does not
understand anything about what is happening in the
world and suddenly see a cartoon of a cartoon political
and suddenly it seems like magic, understands quickly.

Theoretical Foundation
Our Brazilian educational system needs to
create a more modern and inclusive learning
system. Therefore, the use of comics can also be
considered as a means of adult education being literate.
The use of the image associated with the text
can facilitate and learning why people need not read to
understand what a drawing means, and at the same
time they begin to want to learn to read.
Education in Brazil is still a privilege of the few,
and emerging nations such as South Korea and Chile
are investing a lot in education and are already having

return why these countries are in constant technological

development.
Brazil can not miss this chance to become a
country with high educational fees, and will have the
support of all available educational resources, we have
to use more the media and the various languages,
mainly the comics as a means of literate population .
The ideas of this project seek to show the
importance of comics for education, they need to be
very clear for everyone to understand the importance of
comic books to the University, there are many papers
talking about this very topic related to comics in
education.
There are few books in libraries to research on
"sequential art" but we can find some scientific articles
on the Internet on this topic.
The language of comics as a means of expression of
students in the educational process is still very little
used. This could be a way to work the writing of children
who are learning not only to read but also to write.
In the course of Visual Arts Degree we have no
discipline called "sequential art". It could help us
develop creative techniques in sequential art, and also
teaching methods to use them in education.Will Eisner
himself has taught this discipline in the College of Arts
in New York. In Japan the profession of manga comic
book is tradition because in that country there is a wide
print comics.
The Departments of Arts Universities should have a
discipline of sequential art practice and a print line for

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