Elpidio ValdésElpidio Valdés.

Elpidio Valdés is a Cuban comic strip series created in 1970 by cartoonist and Cuban filmmaker Juan Padrón, considered the father of Cuban film animation and director of the first three animated feature films produced by the Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry. The series starrs Elpidio Valdes, a mambí colonel fighting for the liberation of their homeland from Spanish colonialism, commanding a squadron of cavalry, and represents the Cuban peasants in the 19th century Army of liberation. He owes his name to Cecilia Valdés, Cuban protagonist of a novel of the 19th century.