Futuro terrível na revista Kripta (1976-1981)

Abstract

This paper uses the terror comic book magazine Kripta, from the 1970s, as a historical source and as a way of thinking about time inside the stories with dystopic and pessimistic futures issues. For this, it will be presented the history of the terror comic books, their criation, development and target audience, besides the history of the Kripta magazine – publising company, its international matrix and censorship. It has studied the relation between the 1970s and futuristic issues related to Cold War, Vietnam War, population demography, totalitarianism, science fiction, technology and eroticism. It also has related the stories with the temporality crisis theory defended by Reinhard Koselleck and François Hartog, which speak about the human being living within a regime of presentist historicity, marked by a disbelief in the future positivity. In this way, the comic book stories analysed tend to present a terrible and dystopic future, but deeply connected to the questions that terrified its creation time.