Historia en viñetas: el potencial del cómic para pensar el oficio del historiador

Objective/Context: The appropriation of historical research by broad audiences is urgent today. The comic book is one of the most effective formats for the communication of history and has become a product of the discipline. Methodology: The thorough review of some twenty history comics of different languages, traditions and origins (Latin American, European and American) made it possible to identify examples of narrative and visual strategies used to transmit messages about the work with history. Originality: The details of the historian’s tasks are not usually scrutinized in communicative formats other than specialized books. Here, we have evidence of how different comics manage to communicate them. Conclusions: Through narrative strategies such as the use of the narrator’s voice, varied visual resources, humor and anachronism, and the use of annexed notebooks (dossiers), comic authors manage to transmit particularities of the historian’s craft. At the same time, they deal with themes connected to academic historiography, show a multiplicity of approaches, the treatment of primary sources and their silences, and transmit explicit messages about the historical work.