O designer enquanto quadrinista: resolvendo de forma lúdica a representação do DDI

Abstract

Taking under consideration the existing stigmatization about psychological disorders, especially the dissociative identity disorder, the creation of a comic that works ludically the relation of the character with the disorder is proposed. To do só, it was made an extensive research about the symptoms, causes and treatment of the dissociative identity disorder, as well as research about occidental comics and its differences with Japanese comics known as “manga”. Besides that, a research was made regarding the differences of layout rooted on the constructions of both types of sequential art. We realized a difference between, not only the basic structures of both comics, but mainly on the creation of layout – while the occidental layout follows the Z reading, Japan needed to reinvent a form of structuring their comics, once their own reading order and interpretation differs from the occident. Such perception will be used to create a comic that has different layouts to represent the different alters from the character, allowing, by doing só, the ludic representation of the Dissociative Identity Disorder.