A metamorfose da narativa de batman: a piada mortal através da recolorização

Abstract

The colorist role is fundamental for understanding a colored comic book's narrative, their job suffers constant technical's and commercial's influence. This paper's objective is to promote clarification about the techniques used over the years in american comics industry and how this techniques resulted from the techinacal evolution of CMYK color (cyan, magenta, yellow and black) process on offset prepress printing method, and the conditions and requirements of the comic book market. This factors'evolution causes changes in the comic book's reissues colorization, often these alterations can produce re-significances the same work's narrative, a process that was termed by Thierry Groensteen as album metamorphosis. This paper will analyze the metamorphosis of the graphic novel Batman: The Killing Joke originally published by DC Comics in 1988, written by Alan Moore, illustrated by Brian Bolland and colored by John Higgins, the book received two reprints with significant color changes when related to the original edition, it was republished in a luxory edition by Brian Bolland in 2008 with digital colorization and black and white flashback sequences and totaly in black and white in the Batman Noir series of 2016.