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The comics in Mexico are, by no means anything new. The political satire was quite a strong movement in the Porfiriato and many newspaper become almost legendary because of that (see El hijo del Ahuizote). Because of the political repression, the politic cartoon ("caricatura política" as it is called in Mexico) become the only way of free expression in those years. Later, there would be a national industry for many decades with great authors like Yolanda Vargas Dulché (founder of Grupo Editorial Vid), starring titles like Memín Pinguin, La familia Burrón, Chanoc among many others. Sadly, as it may have passed in the United States, comics grew a reputation of "kids only" thus getting the industry almost killed. The only genre that survived was the comic genre known as the "Sensacionales" or "La revista vaquera", very low quality black and white comics printed in tones of sepia starring almost only four panels per page in a four square diagram. Their size is quite small, featuring one hundred pages approximately and are quite famous for portraying voluptuous ladies on their covers. The portray adult-like stories and there is an erotic variation of this comics. In the 1990s the industry started to come back to life little by little, importing again USA heroes comics and some national ones. Sadly, the national industry went through many inner problems getting almost killed again. The only survivors went to magazines or newspapers mainly as comic strips but not as individual autonomous issues. The most popular, like El cerdotado or Buba have managed to get anthologies of their strips. In this decade manga also began to arrive with titles like Dragon Ball and Video Girl Ai. In the last years, with the immense popularity of manga across the world, the comic industry seems to getting back on track with Editorial Toukan (whose whereabouts are uncertain at the moment) and Editorial Vid publishing, along some USA comics, many manga titles that is the genre with more growth in the past years. About Mexican comics, the political satire is still quite strong and there are some attempts of autonomous comics like Meteorix 5.9 and Goji: Un dragón con Ángel.
