Daytripper (DC Comics)
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Vertigo |
| Format | Limited series |
| Publication date(s) | February – November 2010 |
| No. of issues | 10 |
| Creative team | |
| Created by | Fábio Moon Gabriel Bá |
| Written by |
Fábio Moon Gabriel Bá |
| Artist(s) | Fábio Moon Gabriel Bá |
| Letterer(s) | Sean Konot |
| Colorist(s) | Dave Stewart |
| Editor(s) |
Brandon Montclare Pornsak Pichetshote Bob Schreck |
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Daytripper is a ten-issue American comic book limited series by Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá, published by the DC Comics imprint Vertigo.
The series has been collected into a trade paperback:
The trade paperback went into the New York Times Paperback Graphic Books chart at #1 in February 2011 and returned to the chart at the same position in mid-March where it stayed for a week, before dropping to #2 the following week.
"Daytripper" was selected as the 2014 Life of the Mind book at the University of Tennessee (UT) in Knoxville. The Life of the Mind program at UT is a common reading program for all incoming first-year students. "Daytripper" is the first graphic novel and the first Brazilian work to be selected for UT's Life of the Mind program.
Daytripper presents many Brazilian influences, regarding language, literature and culture. The most predominant influence in the book is the main character’s first name. The name Bras could be seen as a reference to the country Brazil, where Daytripper’s creators were born, since this name is composed of the first four letters of the country written in Portuguese, “Brasil”.
This name can also be perceived as a reference to one of the most famous characters in Brazilian Literature, Brás Cubas. Such character appeared in Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas (The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas), which was written by the Brazilian author Machado de Assis. In an interview with to A Filanctera, a Brazilian blog about illustrations, Bá and Moon explain that “[The character] is a homage, a homage that makes sense because Bras’s father is a very famous writer. The kind of father that would give his children the name of novel’s characters. And also because Bras dies, and Brás Cubas dies as well”. In both stories the characters are narrating the story of their deaths: while Bras Cubas makes it clear to the reader that he is already dead and is telling the story of his life, Bras de Oliva Domingos dies unexpectedly in many different ways at the end of each chapter.
Another Brazilian influence found in Daytripper is regarding the use of Portuguese language. In chapter 3, when Bras dies hit by a delivery truck, an important saying is written in it: “Foda. entregas”. The translation of that phrase in English is “Fuck. delivery”, which could be perceived as a reference to the situation experienced by the main character, dying moments after seeing “[…] the woman he was going to spent the rest of his life with.”
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