Cuban Comics in the Castro Era

Acknowledgments and References

The majority of the material used to inform this digital exhibit comes from the "Caridad Blanco Collection of Cuban Comic Books / Historietas Cubanas" collection located at the Benson Latin American Collection and acquired from Caridad Blanco de la Cruz. The collection is a combination of stand-alone comics and newspaper supplements consisting of over 700 pieces ranging from 1937 to 2018. There are examples of important and relatively unique materials from Cuban comic history from the 1930's on, though the majority of the materials are from post-revolution Cuba. Some of the more frequent and well-known titles include ¡Aventuras!, Bijirita, C-Línea, Zunzún, Dedeté, Mella, Muñe, Pionero, and Pásalo.

Caridad Blanco de la Cruz is a Cuban writer, artist, curator, and an expert in Cuban humor and historietas/comics. She was born in 1961 in Havana, Cuba, and earned a Bachelor's degree in Art History from the University of Havana in 1984 and a Master's degree in Art History in 2002. She is active in the art world in Havana being both an art curator and an adjunct at the University of Havana. She has published many exhibition catalogs and in the last year she has published a book of Santiago Armada's work, called Salomon, and Other Narrations: A Decade of Independent Animation, and has also published extensively on Cuban Historietas for the past 20 years. She has won numerous awards throughout her career for her exhibition work including the Premio de la UNEAC y la Fundación Peter Ludwig de Cuba and the Premio Crítica de Artes “Guy Pérez de Cisneros” Premio Nacional de Curaduría. She has collected comics all of her life and recognized them as both artwork and as an educational tool worthy of academic study.


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