In their latest book, Feral House takes a look at
Mexican Pulp Art:
Mexican historietas began as humble cigarette cards in the late 19th century and migrated to the popular press before becoming standalone - and hugely popular - comics. The 1960s and 1970s covers reproduced here, from the now defunct Editorial Continental publishing house, will be familiar to aficionados of Mexican horror flicks, with their unsettling mixture of sex, violence and gore (or “rape, wrestling and surgery”, as a review of one film had it). Though historietas were often used for propaganda purposes, those in this book are solidly fortean - little green men, zombies, witches and the rest. Joy.