Dominican Republic.
Dominican Republic
1919
Dominican comics history is thinly documented, and its best known early tradition is political cartooning.
The cartoonist and editor Bienvenido Gimbernard fixed the image of Concho Primo, the peasant rebel leader used to stand for the nation, in 1919, and kept drawing him in magazines and Listín Diario into the 1920s. Spanish exile artists such as Antonio Bernad drew caricatures for the Santo Domingo daily La Nación after the Spanish Civil War. In recent decades Dominican artists have worked mostly abroad, such as Elisa Féliz, who began with a strip in Listín Diario in 1998 and later drew Charmed for Zenescope.
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1919
1910s
Artists from Dominican Republic in the archive.
Comics from Dominican Republic in the archive.
Concho Primo cartoons, the earliest comic from Dominican Republic in the archive.
The decade when the most new comics from Dominican Republic began.
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Dominican Republic in 2 chapters
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Dominican Republic.
2 chapters
Chapter 1
1919
to 1924
Concho Primo in the press
1919
to 1924
Chapter 01
Concho Primo in the press
Bienvenido Gimbernard created the standard image of Concho Primo in 1919, a peasant in rough clothes with an accordion and a machete. His cartoons of the character ran in Listín Diario in 1923 and in the magazine Cosmopolita in 1924, often showing him with Uncle Sam or the Republic.
1998
to today
Chapter 02
Dominican artists in the US comics market
Elisa Féliz published her first strip in Listín Diario in 1998, then studied at the Kubert School and graduated in 2011. She went on to contribute to the Womanthology anthology from IDW and draw issues of Charmed for Zenescope, and runs her own studio, XSIDE Comics.
The comics to know
- Concho Primo cartoons1919 · political cartoon characterBienvenido Gimbernard. Political cartoons that set the standard image of the rural rebel who stood for the nation.
- Womanthology: Heroiccomic book seriesVarious, including Elisa Féliz. All-women comics anthology from IDW Publishing to which Féliz contributed art.
- Charmed (Zenescope), season 10Elisa Féliz (artist). Féliz drew issues 1 to 20 of this licensed comic.