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Chile

1902

In short

Chilean comics, called historietas or monos, begin with Lustig's strip 'Un alemán en Chile' (1906) and the magazines Zig-Zag and El Peneca.

A golden age from 1945 to 1973 produced Pepo's Condorito, which appeared in 1949 and had its own magazine from 1955 to 2019, and Mampato (1968).

Chile in numbers · 01 • 04

57

34

1902

2000s

Artists

Artists from Chile in the archive.

Comics from Chile in the archive.

La semana cómica, the earliest comic from Chile in the archive.

The decade when the most new comics from Chile began.

historieta

historieta · Comics from Chile

History

Chile in 3 chapters

  1. 1905

    to 1944

    Chapter 01

    Magazines and the first strips

    Zig-Zag (1905 to 1964) and El Peneca (1908 to 1960) were the early magazines, and Fray Pedro Subercaseaux, signing as Lustig, published the strip 'Un alemán en Chile' on 24 June 1906.

  2. 1945

    to 1973

    Chapter 02

    Golden age

    Percy's Pepe Antártico (1947), Pepo's Condorito, which appeared in Okey in 1949, Guido Vallejos's Barrabases (1954) and Mampato (1968) belong to this period. Dorfman and Mattelart's 'Para leer al Pato Donald' (1971) also dates from these years.

    Cover of Pepe Antártico

  3. 1984

    to today

    Chapter 03

    Underground and archives

    The underground magazines Matucana (1984) and Trauko (1988) marked the 1980s, and Condorito kept its own magazine until 2019. The National Library's Memoria Chilena published its comics minisite in 2007, while the Museo de la Historieta de Chile operated from 2010 to 2014.

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