Among the enormous wealth of popular cultural productions in Mexico none occupies a more glorious place than the comic book. For many humble consumers of culture, comic books may be all that they read on any sustained level and may, in fact, be the key to any level of literacy they have. Comic books in Mexico have often served as a forum for biting social satire and the revision of social roles that—until at least twenty years ago—continued to remain rigidly defined in that country. Comic books have also provided political education, or even basic civic information, especially in the series prepared by Rius. Like other forms of popular culture, comic books have often been the bearers of information about changing social and political patterns, while others, with the virtual abolition of censorship that has occurred in post-modern, post-PRI hegemony Mexico, have indulged in the scatological, the erotic, and the...
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