Overview of genealogical studies in Latin America

The interdisciplinary field of genealogical studies of female comic authors in Latin America has been developing on the continent since the last decade. Its study encompasses an evolution of the different creative and artistic spaces that cisgender women, trans women, and people from the LGBTQI+ community have had in the media. In it, various researchers with diverse backgrounds – sociology, literature, communications, history, art history, and linguistics – are investigating the female author’s place in the development of the medium in their respective countries – Chile, Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Colombia, and Mexico Considering the distances, but also the affiliations, between the researchers, the aim of this work – grounded in linguistics and literature – is to construct an overview of Latin American genealogy studies about female comic authors.To conduct this comic/article, 10 researchers in the field were interviewed: Cintia Lima Crescêncio, María da Conceição Francisca Pires, Nara Bretas Lage, Laura Nallely Hernández Nieto, Lina Flórez, Estefanía Henao, Carla Sagástegui, Mara Burkart, Daniela Páez, and Mariela Acevedo. Interviews were privileged as the main technique, since they allow the construction of a dialogue among colleagues and the development of a polysemic overview of genealogical studies in comics. Using the metaphor of the road, we developed a graphic narrative around the question: What are the objectives of this field of study? Based on the analysis, we identified seven categories that allow us to answer this question: visibility, contextualise, search connections, create memory, complete history, built history, and cite ourselves.