La caricatura política en O Pasquim bajo la Dictadura Militar (1978-1980)

Abstract

O Pasquim was published in 1969, soon after the Ato Institucional nº 5 was drawn, a regulation that opened the most repressive period of the Brazilian military dictatorship. O Pasquim was a comic magazine addressed to an educated, bohemian and unprejudiced urban middle class. Laughter was a defiant answer to the order the militars wanted to seek. The image in the magazine played a central role, however the political caricature was incorporated a bit later. It occurred in the midst of 1978, when part of the Brazilian society was looking forward to the political distension and the end of AI-5. The aim of this article is to analyze Geisel’s and Figueiredo’s caricatures published in O Pasquim between 1978 and 1980 to determine their specific characteristics, potentiality and efficiency in the symbolic struggle that took place under the mentioned circumstances, and their relationship with censorship.