The said and the unsaid and the relationship with silence in graphic humor

This paper focuses on the production of political cartoons made by cartoonists Jorge Braga and Mariosan in Goiânia and published by the newspaper O Popular in the period between 2008 and 2009, with reference to the main events in national and international politics. The objective of this research is to elucidate how the political cartoon creates multiple points of view regarding the treatment of political issues, the behavior of its representatives, using humor to build a critical discourse and as a mechanism of projection of an ideology. Through these relations, problematizations emerge about the formation of meaning in the charge and about its configuration as a journalistic genre and pictorial satire or simply as an artistic genre. Considering the charge as an iconographic language and a discursive and ideological practice, we seek to identify in the analyses performed its historical function revealing a critical positioning of a power of persuasion mediated by humor.