The city of Belém in the 1920s carried in the imagination of its population the idea that
the urbs was marked by its “modern” aspects. And the ideal stage to reinforce this
imaginary was the pages of the periodicals and weeklies that circulated in the capital of
Pará in the first decades of the twentieth century. It is precisely in this context that the
figure of Andrelino Cotta was able to construct, through his analyzes, images that were
able to question how “modern” Belém was seen in the notice of the various problems
experienced in the capital of Pará. With the caricature representations, for example, the
periodicals had the guns capable of conducting the interpretations in the process of
symbolic formation, creating stereotypes, which look for represent the city. In newspapers
and magazines, they constructed representations of the most diverse, such as those of
humorous character that were marked by the brief, concise, truncated, fast and reversed
aspects of meanings, demonstrating a certain familiarity. In this aspect of ideological
dispute, the intellectuals were active in the editorial circuit, in special, the comedians
stood out for construct by pencil the artistic production filled with double interpretation.
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