Fontes de informação sobre histórias em quadrinhos: uma análise das monografias publicadas no site Guia de Quadrinhos

Abstract

Guia dos quadrinhos is a database that intends to catalog all the comics publishing in order to preserve the memory of national publishing. As the most important website of this subject in Brazil, it also is a space for academic publishing about comics. Our research, which is exploratory and descriptive, aims to analyze monographies found in the website as informational sources. The selected methodology has a quantiqualitative approach. The theoretical support was based on information sources and comics. We analyze aspects, concepts, typology, classifying and historical evolution. We also include a bibliographic research about informational sources, and a field research made at the referred website. The results found detected 83 monographies about comics, which consists of diverse informational sources, being most of them term papers, dissertations, articles, final works in Specialization courses, final reports and theses. All the sources found are referenced with a short description and comment about their content. Then, we analyzed all the informational stuff and their constitution. We conclude Guia dos Quadrinhos plays an important role as a tool for comics’ researchers due to reunite so much sources about the theme in a local with easy access.