Representação de mídia e transmidiação em quadrinhos: o caso de Sabrina, de Nick Drnaso

Abstract

In intermediality studies, the processes of media representation and transmediation deal with the way in which certain media characteristics are transformed when transferred from one particular medium to another. The analysis of these phenomena involving a certain type of qualified media or specific media products according to Lars Elleström (2014, 2017, 2021) can help to identify the ways in which these media communicate specific information and for what purpose. In this work, I intend to examine the strategies of media representation and transmediation in comics, taking as an example the case of Sabrina, by Nick Drnaso, the first graphic novel to be nominated for the Man Booker Prize literary award. My objective is to reflect on the communicational function of such media phenomena in the work, seeking to understand how these types of media transformation act on the processes of signification. Based on some examples from Sabrina, I point out how such phenomena affect the way in which we interpret narrative events, especially the news that reverberates in the murder of the character that gives the book its name.