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The article covers five decades of the history of women artists in graphic humor, taking as its starting point the emergence of feminism from the 1970s to the expansion, consolidation and popularization of digital media in 2020. In dialogue with categories such as gender and feminist genealogies, we present a selection of brazilian women cartoonists who produced before and after the emergence of the Internet, focusing on short biographies, themes, debates and approaches. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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History of Brazilian graphic humor has been characterized by works that mark the existence of a typical national humor. This originality causes the publication of a variety of books that present themselves as collections, anthologies and encyclopedias that bring together the main names of graphic humor in Brazil. In these researches men are absolute majority and when women aren't completely ignored, they are cited in minimal quantity. With this scenario, the goal of this article is to analyze five collections/anthologies/encyclopedias published between 1968 and 2011 and evaluate, in quantitative and qualitative terms, women cited. As a counterpoint to the silences of Brazilian graphic humor regarding women authors, I intend to explore feminist underground newspapers published in the second half of the XX century, to show that facing the negligent editorial landscape of women's production, they found their alternative ways to publish their work, building spaces of resistence, just as the current context that Internet is the fundamental support to advertising of Brazilian cartoonists, designers, illustrators and comic artists. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]