Stories about alcohol drinking in a Quilombola community: Participatory methodology for creating-validating a comic book by adolescents

Abstract

Objective: describe the participatory methodology of adolescents in the creation-validation process of a comic book that addresses alcohol experimentation, and analyze the experiences of these adolescents that were portrayed in the comic book. Method: participatory, applied between 2015 and 2016, using the dynamics of creativity and sensitivity for comic books, of the creative sensitive method, in two groups of adolescents (G1 and G2), totaling 17 participants, aged from 10 to 17 years, all of them living in a Quilombola community in the north region of the state of Espírito Santo, Brazil. G1 participated in the creation of the comic book with content definition and production. G2 validated the experiential content of the comic book. Results: community info-geography and sociocultural information contributed to the creation of the scenery and characters; the narrative of boys (five) and girls (five) provided the storyboard script which a contracted designer changed into “A possible story.” In the validation, boys (two) and girls (five) created the cultural identity with the plot, since alcohol is part of the everyday life of the community, stimulating experimentation among adolescents. Conclusion: the creation-validation methodology of a comic book about alcohol experimentation stimulated a critical thinking of adolescents who created and validated it.