From Mafalda to Los Supermachos : Latin American Graphic Humor as Popular Culture

Foster examines major examples of graphic humor in Latin America, and especially in Argentina and Mexico, focusing exclusively on those materials that make use of the modes and formulas of mass art to reflect critically on social and cultural ideologies. Contents Preface 1 On the Study of Popular Culture in Latin America 2 Principles of Text Production 3 Sábat: Caricature as Cultural De-Kitschification 4 Fontanarrosa's Gauchomania and Gauchophobia in Las Aventuras de Indoro Pereyra 5 Mafalda: The Ironic Bemusement 6 Sol de Noche and the Graphic Humor of Superhumor 7 Overcoming National Reality: Los Puertitas del Sr. López of Trillo and Altuna 8 Los Supermachos: Golpe de estado en San Garabato 9 Acevedo and De-Disneyfication Selected Bibliography Index About the Book and the Author