![]() ![]() Original Artwork For Sale (click image for larger picture): We’ve managed to find an amazing collection of this artwork, brilliantly illustrated and promising stories that mix film noir with soap operas and questionable bedroom practices. With hundreds of books coming out each week, unfortunately much of the art interior and cover art was simply disposed of. Similar to our 1950s pulp industry in the US, these books were made cheaply and meant to be thrown away after reading for a quick thrill. The only genre to survive, and even thrive, was a unique form of adult pulp comics.Welcome to the odd world of Mexican Pulp comics: Weird, Bizarre, Violent, Sexual, Perverse, and Gruesome.with LOTS of Booty! These paintings are the original cover art from some of the strangest Mexican comic books we could find! These covers are mostly from the 90s. That, combined with the perception that comics were only for kids, nearly wiped out indigenous comic books in Mexico. Titles such as Pepín, Fantomas, and Memín Penguín sold millions of copies during this era. But in the 1980s, American superhero comics poured into Mexico. From the 1930s through the 1970s, Mexico had a thriving comic-book industry with many genres. The dominant role of adult comics in Mexico is relatively new. Sensacionales are trashy and exploitative, but they also represent a genuinely popular indigenous medium. Most are sold cheaply at newsstands, either new or second-hand (similar to Italian fumetti).Īdult comics have a unique place in Mexican culture. The pocket size books generally have approximately one hundred pages and are famous for portraying voluptuous women on their covers. ‘Sensacionales’ or ‘La revisit vaquero’ are very low quality black and white comics printed in tones of sepia featuring about four panels per page in a four square diagram. Published by Editorial Toukan (and running to over 800 issues), the far from politically correct artwork and stories in Relatos de Presidio feature gory scenes of death and torture involving victims from both sexes. Relatos de Presidio (‘Tales from Prison’) is a popular “sensacionales” Mexican comic with horror and crime themes aimed at adults. ![]()
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