O Coringa em A piada mortal de Alan Moore e Brian Bolland

• Ano de defesa: 2020
• Autor(a) principal: Oliveira, Emmanuel Prado de
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Uberlândia; Brasil; Programa de Pós-graduação em Estudos Literários
• Palavras-chave em Português: Coringa; Joker; História em Quadrinhos; Comic Books; Romance Gráfico; Graphic Novel; Personagem; Character; CNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LETRAS::TEORIA LITERARIA; Histórias em Quadrinhos
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/31207; http://doi.org/10.14393/ufu.di.2021.54

The present work aims to examine Joker’s conception as a character in the graphic novel The Killing Joke (1988), text by Alan Moore, art by Brian Bolland, published in Brazil by DC Comics/ Panini. We analyze the way he is built as a contemporary villain, the philosophy that triggers his actions and the fundamental characteristics that make him unique in the universe of comics and in the imagery that descends from it – which is reverberated in movies and video games. Based on notions of myth and hero and anti-hero and on considerations about the literary character and, specifically, the comic book character, this work addresses The Killing Joke as a relevant turning point in the trajectory of both the Joker as Batman’s key opponent and the superhero narrative as a complex artistic production worthy of study.