Humor in the times of anger. Clearing El humor gráfico español del siglo XX for a black-and-white contemporary history class

Abstract

Humor gráfico español del siglo XX appeared in 1970 as part of a collection of 100 titles, RTV Books, which was also published as the “Salvat Basic Library”; 96 cartoonists were included in this anthology, some of whom had already worked in the previous century. This selection came to light only four years after the “Press and Print-ing Law” was approved, which signaled a certain openness of the Franco regime; But, even so, the authorities made use of cultural dirigisme to control the contents of the editions or, as in this case, they authorized a list of works whose reading would not cause any political problems. And this is what was also achieved within the book we are discussing.