The text deals with contemporary visuality, focusing on the interaction between the types of language used in television cartoons. The simultaneous use of different types of language characterizes this media product as a syncretic text, where images, words, and sounds interact so as to construct meaning. The discussion about hybrid texts uses semiotic theory, studies on the interpretation of cartoons, and contemporary debates on art education and on childhood as a basis, seeking to contribute towards education, and in particular, the reading of images.