Portal de Turismo de Castilla y León

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December 2, 2025

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Lourdes Díaz Lora (Autonomous Metropolitan University, Xochimilco Unit, Mexico)

From the 1930s until the mid-1950s, Mexican comics experienced a golden age, a period in which they became one of the most important forms of mass communication for Mexican society. While most of the editors, writers, and illustrators in this medium were men, female participation and representation were limited but not absent.

The objective of the presentation is to introduce the women who participated most actively in the Mexican comics industry during this period, and at the same time, to talk about the ways in which Mexican women were being represented in a period in which female political participation through suffrage was emerging.

A series of reflections will be drawn from the comic book catalog of the National Newspaper Library of Mexico, from which a database was extracted that compiles the names of women who were part of this industry, as well as information about the content of the stories. Among those discussed will be Laura Bolaños, Susana Hernández Martínez, Yolanda Vargas Dulché, and comics such as Dandy , Adelita y las Guerrillas , Sin ti , and Sonia la Maga Invencible , among others.