Conceived and birthed in the decade of the 40 I sucked and I suffered from the lack of a postwar period that has lasted too long.
Within a family working, humble, honest and hardworking I grew sickly and timid.
My children not very different to many others, I'm one of those schools of national-Catholicism of Franco . Those schools that were an effective method of political indoctrination. Those schools that were the cornerstone of the propaganda a regime that said take the path of Spain's imperial resurgence.
Those schools in which we were taught submission, respect, passive obedience to all kinds of authority and that women should be selfless, obedient, pious, pure, pure, and household in Spain in the pan and tambourine.
Those esc uelas where you had to promote child development in a dense atmosphere of spirituality. were years of deep religious fervor, the compulsory teaching of religion were compounded by the imposition of a multitude of devotional practices, "Masses, first Friday, rosaries, Stations of the Cross, retreat, months of Mary, Hartnell, aspirations, hymns of Catholic Action, offerings of reparation to the Sacred Heart ,...", flooded school in those early forties that "children of the post-decalcified testified Francisco Umbral, knees hurt us so long to be kneeling on the flags, praying and singing."
Those schools in which we had to memorize , trolley, works of mercy, the fruits of the Holy Spirit, and the list Kings of the Goths. The saying, "The Kings Goths were 33, but the most famous were 4: Ataúlfo, Recaredo, Wamba and Don Rodrigo" ...
However, we could evade a fascinating and mysterious world filled with exciting adventures, where the epic was the essential condiment. We Comics.
The comics had a prominent presence in Franco's Spain. Source of myths and financial strength of enormous size whose influence spanned all areas of English cultural landscape.
Memories of my childhood
"José Escobar Outgoing
As essential source for reaching comics in those years, the magazine Tom Thumb in particular, an almost obligatory reference point what are the social and political conditions and, particularly, the systematic censorship of cultural expression made all under the dictatorship Franco. Franco's censorship was designed to complete the process of total elimination, physical and spiritual of the opponents of a political regime and social groups that it represented.
Francoism felt obliged to lead the nation that revolted by ation and the war had placed under his custody, to an ideology, a moral and aesthetic consistent with the good that was intended to embody backed by a Catholic Church that the revolt of 36, was the signal to launch a crippling Christianization of the country.
publications founded by National Delegation of Press and Propaganda and Falangist groups linked to the state, are those that are much better studied so far, which does not happen with humorous publications despite the importance they played in the cultural life of the moment.
needed to take into account the oppressive climate of a culture dominated and manipulated by the "National-" to determine precisely the meaning of the apparently very modest efforts of humor magazines . First, it should be noted that the creation of a magazine was difficult and made it impossible in practice by a series of legal precepts. To solve this problem, we used to resort to mere publication or existing names to go after changing its contents.
Some people attribute the success of the comic strips took campaign is in the fifties to the information gaps of a press under censorship. Or, qualifying this idea, the story became a "safety valve" for repressed social frustrations.
The fact is that English cartoonists, the h-
echo that its audience has no means of accurate information about problems facing the country, respond to this gap by drawing a picture as fair and equitable as possible to the reality that covered. This difficult work seems to have been a common experience in the generation of post-war comic strips. There is no doubt that in Thumb the authors were able to overcome, usually the stumbling block of censorship, While his stories reflect a certain hardness social injustice, it is reflected without hoses, objectively without any color.
may not be understood as saying no memory of the painful postwar
uerra. The terrible repression and hunger and misery. The effects of this were enormous accumulated pain of many people, especially losers, but winners.
I am a child, I'm sitting on a rung of the ladder who lives Siscu, meriendo a slice of bread spread with oil. I'm alone, I suppose q ue
my friends went to their respective homes to also claim the snack.
already are few who remember Carpanta, Zipi and Zape, Petra maid for everything, etc. Characters role in our childhood.
Every week expected forward to the next installment and Zape Zipi. What would be the latest prank of the twins?, "Eat Carpanta achieved? ...
In Spain, as in the rest of the world, the ninth art began more than a century, only in bookshops instead of comics so bought in kiosks. These publications were so happy that our children will always be remembered in a corner of our hearts. Comics conjunction with sticker albums for quite some time became one of the biggest publishing successes of our country due to the wide variety of topics. Today we soften re sane and fill the memory of those who live in those times. Help to understand the past and remember.
José Escobar, one of the authors, belonging to the promotion of cartoonists who sought to overcome the humorous graphic narrative from the critical view of the English reality in which they lived. A difficult and contradictory of art and culture in Spain.
Escobar created a great little universe of characters, which still continue to provide elements and findings enrich the rich world of this author, without doubt, one of the most original and evocative cartoon English children. His characters are defined by the transparency of a watercolor, have a strong entity from the beginning of its existence. Escobar's being built through what they do and say, rarely stops to make a detailed description or a comprehensive characterization, but the reality is that the reader ends up knowing full well what each one. Her narrative is concise, brief and suggestive. In his stories, mainly between 1947 and 1956, testimonial include an intense load and allows no doubt set up a comprehensive picture of the English Civil War.
The cyclical adjustment of characters to the circumstances of the English Civil War
is the great success and great achievement of José Escobar, which otherwise would not have reached its testimonial nature.
remains José Escobar, for the history of graphic narrative humorously, as one of the best writers wove stories and more solidarity with the people watching.
Manuel López
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