A October 24, 1929, in developmental euphoric market of the civilized world, offered for sale on the American Stock Exchange 13 million shares, at low prices not find a buyer.
American Stock Exchange, the world touched, it collapses. The stock market collapses. Installs mistrust. The fragility of the system is exposed to the weather, and weak frame that pivots on the great economic structure is shaken.
inflation, domestic and foreign debt, overproduction, business bankruptcy, workers to the unemployment line, investors suicide, chaos, devaluation of the dollar unstoppable ... the theory of the butterfly flapping in London and the typhoon in Hong Kong met in economic inevitability and carries with it a large part of human beings, forced now to wander among the queues ration and precarious work four hours to bring up their malnourished families.
So, what you instant gratification is the human being when everything around you is not going too well ... or directly go wrong, very wrong?
As the use of one form of escapism from the reality most basic and elementary of all and the few men and women that make you squeamish: sex, with increased heart rate and sweating contemplating his imaginative lovemaking brings activities.
has called Tijuana Bibles is perhaps the first underground comic book history, if we understand a product underground almost clandestine processing (such craft, with very few resources) covert distribution in barbershops, schools, markets and material containing clearly uncomfortable and subversive to the moral standards and / or sex of the time.
Tijuana Bible - the North Americans in Tijuana and Mexico must sonarles a little Sodom and Gomorrah, hence the adjective "were just cheap and landscaped comics about eight pages 10x15 and that carried out "artists anonymous (although it seems that guys like W. Morse - the creator of the famous strip "Bazooka Joe" - could be back) and which related to explicit sexual adventures and exploits carried out all kinds of heroes comic (remember that comic strip comics were all that existed back then) and the Cinema of the time: from Popeye and Donald Duck to The little orphan, and Greta Garbo .
Fellatio , cunnilingus several acts of sodomy happy home, threesomes, lesbianism ... the full range of views, links and patterns of sexual pleasure generators voyeur openly and were reproduced in the pages of bad paper and worst impression that circulated among youth and adults.
The popularity of the Tijuana Bibles , as you can imagine, was immediately under the circumstances of depression and generalized depression. A ray of light, happiness, pleasure fleeting infectious and hypnotic in their faces made a Betty Boop or Popeye (is the effect of spinach was it?) in full enjoyment of intercourse or orgasm seemed one of the infallible recipe to fight all that gray gloom that had settled early in what was left of the precarious Yankee homes.
idealized and explicit sex-through social parody and / or character of the era as a safety valve of daily difficulties. Today
what is called Tijuana Bible belongs to the archeology of the History of Comics, an essential part in the founding of the ninth schedule art, which prefaced the underground back of the sixties and seventies and is a genre known for the fans that even Alan Moore in his massive "Watchmen " winks tribute as that done with her character "Silk Spectre" which does appear in one of Tijuana Bibles.
short, that in the distant 30's and is propped up comics as a means of independent expression, self-sufficient, and already showed signs copies of his potential ability to torpedo with wit and intelligence and traditional rigid moralizing of those early years of cracks, world wars and holocausts and extermination that would throw us a little later just above.
And all through the simple use of the three weapons of mass construction more important that the human mind: imagination, his sense of humor and sexuality.
Greetings Jim, tijuaneros.
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