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.
Most of these titles did not only have comics, but also included activities and puzzles that provided lessons on geography, anthropology, and politics.
Palante, 1961, First
published as a
humor weekly.
Closed down
November 1990.
El 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.
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,
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
Zig Zag
La Picua
Pablo
