O Tico-Tico, o nacional e os quadrinhos durante a Primeira República (1905-1910)

Abstract

This present study aims to analyze the foreign comics published on O Tico-Tico magazine between the years of 1905 and 1910 throughout the current discussion about the national occurring in Brazil in that period. O Tico Tico was the first successful children’s magazine to course around Brazil. It’s editorial project came up after the segmentation process of the O Malho’s journal and the beliefs of intelectuals like Manoel Bomfim, Luís Bartolomeu de Souza e Silva, Renato Castro and Cardoso Luís, in education as a tool of social transformation. Through the medium of it’s informative, ludical and instrutive content, the magazine aimed to educate those who would be the future brazilian citizens, taking it’s part on the debate about the schooled education during the first republican years. The comics published on the magazine, especially the foreign ones, were the main channel of disclosure about an amount of norms and recommendations that had the goal to form a citizen who was disciplined and prepared to the capitalist relations under development. The engagement against the indolence, addictions, valorization of schooling, the country and labour relations were some of the ideas that were prominent in the foreign comics that were adapted by the magazine’s editors to the national reality.