1970-1995: a slow watch and another missed train

Abstract

It is an important period as a nearly total breaking with the way the cartoon story is understood happens; this kind of publications will not be devoted any more to the leisure and the education of the children and the young readers. The echos of the authored comic slowly came to Spain, there are some shy national authors along with works published in France, Argentina and Italy which are translated. As it is considered as a narrative expression form and grapically complex, it also stimulates the research on this media through different publications and exhibitions or even through semiological studies made at the university. In the late franquismo some magazines, fascicles and books, are published and show that this media had become “adult”. In one hand there are some experiments done related to genres like fantasy, adventures or horror and in the other hand, the underground comic appears as a countercultural autoctonous experience. Magazines such as Totem, Blue Jeans or Bumerang fixed from 1977 the guidelines that marked the following revolution of the Spanish industry. The very first disembarkation, compact and real, of the comic for adults, happens in 1978 with the publishing of a comic called 1984, then some new magazines such as El Víbora, Cimoc or Cairo got published too. The evolution of the comic devoted to children and young people is studied too. Considered in a certain way as an industrial process, this ended in 1986 with the closing of the Bruguera Publishing House.