Mexican Comic "Los Supermachos", Satirizing Imperialism and Championing Workers and Common People, Archive 1967–1971

Mexican Comics, Los Supermachos

Archive

[Mexico and Latino][Comic][Counterculture] Archive of nine issues of Spanish-language comic Los Supermachos,1967–1971. Nine issues of the groundbreaking Mexican satirical comic created by Rius (Eduardo del Río) and published by Editorial Meridiano. All in original staple-bound wrappers, printed in full color. Renowned for fusing humor with trenchant political critique, Los Supermachos was a vehicle for leftist and populist resistance during Mexico's single-party PRI regime. Through the fictive village of San Garabato de las Tunas, Rius developed a revolutionary idiom of visual satire that exposed the hypocrisies of politicians, clergy, capitalists, and U.S. imperialists alike, while championing campesinos, workers, and common people. The comic was widely read across class lines and became a central node in Mexican countercultural and intellectual life of the late 1960s.

Archive includes: Nos. 79, 86, 170, 184, 188, 200, 201, 214, and 304. Across these issues, Rius critiques social inequality, economic corruption, machismo, militarism, police repression, imperialism, and the failures of Mexico's political elite. Rius makes extensive use of popular idioms and regional slang to bridge elite critique with accessible humor, addressing themes such as state violence, electoral fraud, and systemic inequality. Though grounded in the Mexican context, the comic frequently critiques foreign intervention and capitalism, pointing to broader currents of Cold War resistance in Latin America. Moderate age toning, occasional corner creases, 1 issue exhibiting dampstaining to back wrapper and back page. All complete and in overall good to very good condition. Rius’s work remains foundational to Latin American political cartooning, and this archive captures the emergence of visual satire as a critical form of popular dissent in the post-Tlatelolco era.

Item #22394

Price: $425.00