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Museo del Estanquillo
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Museo del Estanquillo
Flexicover
160 Pages
166 Illustrations
José Luis Lugo
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José Luis Lugo
Spanish edition
ISBN RM:
978-607-7515-23-4
ISBN RMV:
978-84-92480-46-3
2009
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Paying homage to the long and prolific careers of two iconic figures in the history of the Mexican comic strip—Gabriel Vargas and Eduardo del Río Rius—the exhibition De San Garabato al Callejón del Cuajo was presented at the Museo del Estanquillo (Carlos Monsiváis Collection) in Mexico City.
Outstanding portraitists of the social, political, economic, and cultural life of twentieth-century Mexico, these two moneros (as they are known in Mexican Spanish) are the creators of the unforgettable characters who inhabit the pages of La familia Burrón (Vargas) and Los Supermachos (Rius), to mention only their most famous strips. They reveal the two faces of the Mexican nation: a rural, anticlerical, post-revolutionary Mexico alongside the urban landscape of the capital city, with its tenement houses and popular neighborhoods. Two aspects of the same world, with different problems and idiosyncrasies, seen with wit, irony, irreverent humor, and the keenest critical gaze.
This book gather essays by Carlos Monsiváis, Rafael Barajas el Fisgón, and Francisco Vidargas, who approach the work of Gabriel Vargas and Eduardo del Río from the perspectives of urban popular culture and the origin and evolution of the Mexican comic strip. The volume includes a list of cartoonists, publications, and secondary literature dedicated to the subject.
We see here how Vargas and Rius join hands with José Guadalupe Posada, Leopoldo Méndez, Hugo Brehme, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Agustín Jiménez, Alfredo Zalce, and Abel Quezada, other artists who have depicted the everyday life of the Mexican people in countryside and city.
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