Early Run of Los Agachados 10 Issues, Mexican satirical magazine on Vietnam, Elections, and Consumer Society,1969-1974
- 1969
1969. Mexican Comics Archive of Los Agachados covering politics, religion, war, and everyday consumer life into cheap mass-circulation satire, and this group preserves that project across ten issues from 1969 to 1974. Created by Eduardo del Río, known as Rius, this collection contains anti-clerical and anti-imperialist argument is already fully formed in covers such as "Se rumora que Cristo era pobre," "Confirmado: el comunismo internacional y la CIA, culpables de las derrotas en Europa!!," and "Vietnam: la paz no es negocio cuate!." Later issues discuss Mexican identity, cosmetics, and the energy crisis. Several issues also retain interior editorials, promotional pages, and back-cover advertising that place Los Agachados inside Editorial Posada's broader world of polemical books, occult and pseudo-scientific serials, and correspondence-course marketing.
Los Agachados de Rius. Mexico City: Editorial Posada, 1969-1974. Archive of 10 issues.
[1] Los Agachados de Rius. No. 13. Mexico City: Editorial Posada, February 23, 1969. Newspaper-parody issue built around the headline "Se rumora que Cristo era pobre," with additional mock headlines attacking clerical authority and church respectability.
[2] Los Agachados de Rius. No. 15. Mexico City: Editorial Posada, May 23, 1969. "Apúrenle a llegar a la luna antes de destruir la tierra!" joins the space race to environmental destruction in one of the run's earliest overtly global themes.
[3] Los Agachados de Rius. No. 22. Mexico City: Editorial Posada, September 26, 1969. Cover text blaming "el comunismo internacional y la CIA" for defeats in Europe turns Cold War rhetoric into absurdist soccer satire.
[4] Los Agachados de Rius. No. 23. Mexico City: Editorial Posada, 1969. "Lista incompleta y exclusiva de los 230 santos que ya no lo son" satirizes canonization and Catholic popular culture.
[5] Los Agachados de Rius. No. 24. Mexico City: Editorial Posada, 1969. "¡Auxilio!! ¡Los hippies!!" takes up youth culture and generational panic in direct vernacular form.
[6] Los Agachados. No. 33. Mexico City: Editorial Posada, 1970. Election issue with the line "Mejor yo lo invito a las elecciones!," treating formal politics as staged spectacle.
[7] Los Agachados de Rius. No. 45. Mexico City: Editorial Posada, July 15, 1970. "Vietnam: la paz no es negocio cuate!" uses a skull-faced Uncle Sam cover to attack war as profit.
[8] Los Agachados. Opus 68. Mexico City: Editorial Posada, May 2, 1971. "¿...los mexicanos somos seres inferiores?" marked "primera de dos partes," addressing national identity and cultural subordination.
[9] Los Agachados. No. 140. Mexico City: Editorial Posada, January 23, 1974. "¿Cosméticos o venenos?" turns beauty products and chemical consumption into a critique addressed explicitly to women readers.
[10] Los Agachados. No. 144. Mexico City: Editorial Posada, 1974. "La espeluznante verdad sobre la crisis de los energéticos: petróleo, electricidad, energía nuclear, etc." frames the energy crisis through the question "¿Qué conviene más comprar un coche o un burro?"
These issues show Rius working across the subjects that made Los Agachados distinctive: anti-clerical satire, Cold War politics, Vietnam, elections, national self-critique, women's consumer culture, and the economics of energy and technology. The archive also preserves the surrounding print economy in which the series circulated, with advertisements for correspondence schools, Colección Duda Semanal, ¿Qué tal la URSS?, Akhenaton, and Garab Yidam El Lama, placing the comic inside the wider Editorial Posada program of popular political and quasi-educational publishing in Mexico. Light to moderate toning, handling wear, creasing, rubbing, and scattered edge wear; a few issues with stains, small chips, or old tape reinforcement, but remaining legible and largely complete. Overall in good condition. A sharp ten-issue group from the period in which Rius established the weekly comic as a durable form of political argument in modern Mexican print culture.o.
Los Agachados de Rius. Mexico City: Editorial Posada, 1969-1974. Archive of 10 issues.
[1] Los Agachados de Rius. No. 13. Mexico City: Editorial Posada, February 23, 1969. Newspaper-parody issue built around the headline "Se rumora que Cristo era pobre," with additional mock headlines attacking clerical authority and church respectability.
[2] Los Agachados de Rius. No. 15. Mexico City: Editorial Posada, May 23, 1969. "Apúrenle a llegar a la luna antes de destruir la tierra!" joins the space race to environmental destruction in one of the run's earliest overtly global themes.
[3] Los Agachados de Rius. No. 22. Mexico City: Editorial Posada, September 26, 1969. Cover text blaming "el comunismo internacional y la CIA" for defeats in Europe turns Cold War rhetoric into absurdist soccer satire.
[4] Los Agachados de Rius. No. 23. Mexico City: Editorial Posada, 1969. "Lista incompleta y exclusiva de los 230 santos que ya no lo son" satirizes canonization and Catholic popular culture.
[5] Los Agachados de Rius. No. 24. Mexico City: Editorial Posada, 1969. "¡Auxilio!! ¡Los hippies!!" takes up youth culture and generational panic in direct vernacular form.
[6] Los Agachados. No. 33. Mexico City: Editorial Posada, 1970. Election issue with the line "Mejor yo lo invito a las elecciones!," treating formal politics as staged spectacle.
[7] Los Agachados de Rius. No. 45. Mexico City: Editorial Posada, July 15, 1970. "Vietnam: la paz no es negocio cuate!" uses a skull-faced Uncle Sam cover to attack war as profit.
[8] Los Agachados. Opus 68. Mexico City: Editorial Posada, May 2, 1971. "¿...los mexicanos somos seres inferiores?" marked "primera de dos partes," addressing national identity and cultural subordination.
[9] Los Agachados. No. 140. Mexico City: Editorial Posada, January 23, 1974. "¿Cosméticos o venenos?" turns beauty products and chemical consumption into a critique addressed explicitly to women readers.
[10] Los Agachados. No. 144. Mexico City: Editorial Posada, 1974. "La espeluznante verdad sobre la crisis de los energéticos: petróleo, electricidad, energía nuclear, etc." frames the energy crisis through the question "¿Qué conviene más comprar un coche o un burro?"
These issues show Rius working across the subjects that made Los Agachados distinctive: anti-clerical satire, Cold War politics, Vietnam, elections, national self-critique, women's consumer culture, and the economics of energy and technology. The archive also preserves the surrounding print economy in which the series circulated, with advertisements for correspondence schools, Colección Duda Semanal, ¿Qué tal la URSS?, Akhenaton, and Garab Yidam El Lama, placing the comic inside the wider Editorial Posada program of popular political and quasi-educational publishing in Mexico. Light to moderate toning, handling wear, creasing, rubbing, and scattered edge wear; a few issues with stains, small chips, or old tape reinforcement, but remaining legible and largely complete. Overall in good condition. A sharp ten-issue group from the period in which Rius established the weekly comic as a durable form of political argument in modern Mexican print culture.o.
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Title
Early Run of Los Agachados 10 Issues, Mexican satirical magazine on Vietnam, Elections, and Consumer Society,1969-1974
Author
Los Agachados
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Date
1969