The line at the Comic Con Experience

an ethnographic perspective

Abstract

The article presents an ethnography of the queue that formed in the Comic Con Experience parking lot on December 6, 2019 to access the Cinemark auditorium panels, held the next day. Based on the article by Leon  Mann called Queue Culture: The Waiting Line as a Social System (1969) and on the book Fila e Democracia (2017) by Roberto DaMatta and Alberto Junqueira, this text defines the queue as a space democratic public. The study also understands that it consists of a social practice that generates sociabilities, marked by a sense of community. The article concludes that references to pop culture narratives present in the event and in the queue generate an affective anteriority that, shared between individuals, establishes a “common” that links their behaviors, emotions and affections, as discussed by Muniz Sodré in the book The science of the common: notes on the communicational method (2014).