Comics in Mexico
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Comics in Mexico are, by no means new. Political satire was quite a strong movement in the Porfiriato and many newspapers become almost legendary because of its political comics (see El hijo del Ahuizote). Because of political repression, the political cartoon ("caricatura política") become the only means 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,comics later grew a reputation of being geared toward children, which nearly murdered the industry.
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 featuring about four panels per page in a four square diagram. The pocket size books generally have approximately one hundred pages and are famous for portraying voluptuous women on their covers. They feature erotic adult stories of varying degrees of pornography.
In the 1990s the Mexican comics industry began to be revived, 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.
[edit] External links
- History of Mexican Comics - Fan site
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