My computer just ate my response to you ...
it had some references to Proceso, (an article about how the last three presidentes killed the PRI).
Also some interesting comments I found in your URL in re: the History of Cuba... and how Fidel came to power....
I am surprised the US allowed Castro to fall in the paws of the Russian bear.
I think if Fidel and the US would have come to terms under a friendly scenario, history would have been very different in Latin America... who knows.
In re political cartoons...
If you ever are able to listen to Tomás Mojarro (radio UNAM), you will laugh for a long time... he is very good and his "tone" (yes Karen, I can listen to that on the radio *g*). is absolutley the best. Very sarcastic and totally irreverent.
I have never been able to find anything from him on the Internet. (only a few commentaries about him).
I found a site about a satirical political magazine called "Chamuco y Los hijos del Averno" (The Devil and the Children from Hell)...
But, I think Lucifer must have arrived first and took all the working parts of it... *g*
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Here is something about the author (Rius)
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"El Evangelio, segun San Garabato" (HAHAHAHAHA)
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Some more about Rius... If you do not know about him.... read this:
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No wonder Art scholars dislike cartoons. They're no longer art. They're a product.
Still, whenever I question scholars about their knowledge of Latinamerican cartoons I usually get this "uh, I dunno" face.
"You don't know about Rius? Los Supermachos? Mafalda? Los Agachados?"
"Uhm, I read Doonsbury..."
Doonesbury I'm afraid, is mild in comparison to any of the above mentioned--and even milder when compared to more contemporary work.
Latinamerica, because of its history of political upheaval, has a long, rich tradition, of socially-oriented cartoons. Mexico, for example, has produced some of the best political cartoons of the 20th century, and so has Argentina. But does anyone know about it? Well, not really... Not many... Not in the USA at least.
Lets start with Mexico. Back in the 60's a young cartoonist called Eduardo del Rio, who signed his work as "Rius," after following the steps of Abel Quezada in revolutionizing the Mexican editorial cartoon, created the first truly revolutionary comic book. The name of this comic book was Los Supermachos.
Los supermachos took place in a little town in central Mexico called "San Garabato Cuc." In it, Rius created a time capsule through which one could see the way in which a town in central Mexico living under the government of a Cacique was like. Its main character, an Indian called Juan Calzonzin, would speak against the abuses of this government, and lead the rest of the characters from adventure to adventure dodging the police and the agents of the upper class.
There were no superheroes in Los Supermachos. They were "Supermachos" because they had to put up with a lot of abuses from the government and the upper class, but that was it. This, along with the rebellious attitude of Juan Calzonzin and company, was in fact what was selling the comic book. People throughout Mexico felt a relationship between their lives and the lives of the inhabitants of San Garabato.
The comic book contained such successfully sharp social commentaries that the Mexican government ended up pressuring the publisher to censor it. This lead to an eventual antagonism between Rius and the publisher, leading to the stealing of the title and characters from Rius and his departure to another publishing house in order to publish his second work of art: Los Agachados.
Los Agachados was a more "modern" version of Los Supermachos, having the same basic flavor. Los Agachados ran for years in Mexico from 1968 to 1980 almost without pause. It became the most successful comic book in the history of Mexican caricature.
Aside from Doing Los Agachados and Los Supermachos, Rius authored over 50 different books on different subjects ranging from vegetarianism to the philosophy of Karl Marx. One of his books, called Marx Para Principiantes (Marx for beginners) was translated to English and, believe it or not, it is a required text in some classes at San Diego State University.
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And then my favorite... Mafalda (from Quino)
Here is a sample of his cartoons:
In this one Mafalda's father ask her what is she doing... she says she is watching "the fight" what fight her father says, this looks like a t.v. theater...
she responds: the script writer's fight. It is very passionate to witness how the writer has fought trying to avoid falling into the paws of intelligence.
HAHAHAHAHA....
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Including my all time favorite :
Mafalda reads the definition of Democracy.... "Government under which the people is sovereign." And then...
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