THE BEGINNING OF THE COMIC IN THE PENINSULA
UNTIL SUNDAY 3/6
THE EMERGENCE OF THE CLASSICS
UNTIL SUNDAY 27/5
Muvim. Quevedo, 10
Coinciding with the arrival of the long-awaited first edition of the comic fair in Valencia, The MuVIM has inaugurated two exhibitions that reconstruct the history of comics, taking a look at its American origins and the influence that overseas comics had on the Valencian and Spanish graphic novels.. Two samples based on the quiet activity of private collecting that has provided the museum with originals and unique pieces in excellent condition.. The Alfons Roig room reviews the history of American comics from its beginnings in the daily press at the beginning of the 20th century with Yellow Kid (1895), character with whom the modern comic began and of which we can see the first strips exposed. Television did not yet exist and cinema was not affordable for all budgets., so the comic became the poor man's cinema. In the years 30 The genre acquired full autonomy in independent publications that developed plots of their own characters such as Superman. (1938), which opened the door to a good series of superheroes with extraordinary powers called Batman (1939), Green Lantern (1940) o Flash (1940). The vignettes are populated by strong and brave men who fight against evil in all its forms while the women act as a vase or wait to be saved.. That's why Wonder Woman gets out of hand, creada por All-American Publications (predecessor of the current DC Comic) in 1941, the first widely spread superheroine to star in adventures on her own. This whole heyday, since the years 30 in the middle of the 50, It is now known as the Golden Age of comics and is the central object of the exhibition.
In the museum lobby, The beginning of comics on the Peninsula emphasizes the influence that comics from the North American press had on the Spanish state, where they began to create their own characters and stories adapted to the Hispanic imagination, such as Roberto Alcázar (1940), The Mask Warrior (1944), a very Disney Pumby created by the Valencian Josep Sanchis Grau (1954) or Captain Thunder (1956), that enjoyed a lot of popularity during the Spanish postwar. S.M.
