Cuban Comics in the Castro Era

Titles and Publications

While comics were becoming very more popular in the 1960s, it was the 1970s and 1980s where they truly became mainstream. Many of the most well known titles opened in these two decades, only to be shuttered in the 1990s due to paper and other supply shortages. These shortages came about because of an economic downturn during that period caused by repeated embargoes leveled at the country by the United States and others.

Palante, 1961, First published as a humor weekly. Closed down November 1990.
Pionero, Juan Padron Blanco's "Elpidio Valdes" first published in Pionero in 1970.
C-Línea, Grupo P-Ele (the comics department of the Latin American information agency, Prensa Latina), launched the journal in 1973, devoted to comic art. It was the first attempt in Cuba to study comics thoroughly. It only published 14 issues (Carrasco, 154). 
Dedeté, February 14, 1979. bi-monthly humor magazine started edited by cartoonist Migue (Miguelito). Closed down November 1990.
Zunzún, Zunzún first published October 1980.
Bijirita, February 24, 1985, Bijirita first published quarterly
Muñe, El Muñe first published 1985 as a weekly tabloid
Cómicos first published December 1985, monthly comic book
Mi Barrio, September 1996. Despite difficulties and the shortage of paper, a new comics magazine appeared in September 1996, Mi barrio, supported economically by the Comite´s de Defensa de la Revolucio´n (CDR) and the Unio´n de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba (UNEAC)
Pásalo
¡Aventuras!,
Mella,

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