In the early 30's in gringolandia - The United States - reigned two unions were strong in the distribution of comics and cartoons, The King Features The Chicago Tribune and as good unions were authentic Monopolistic political signs in their gangster who decided according to their discretion satrap was published or not. In 1931 the "union of cartoonists" Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc . He had a gold mine with "Tarzan " drawn by Hal Foster this, after leaving the boring story or perhaps tired of being exploited, the relay to draw the king of the monkeys is taken by Burne Hogarth who would give his personality classic Tarzan while Foster went to neither more nor less than " Prince Valiant." The same year he created Tarzan, the first comic appears in Science Fiction: " Roger Buck "with Philp in the script Nowlan and Dick Calkins as an illustrator. face a market where competition was algid The King Features decided to make a contest to create three stories in the jungle-themed for Tarzan to overshadow - a detective ( to compete with Dick Tracy Chester Gould of ) and science fiction to deal with Buck Rogers.
Surprisingly, the same artist won the three category the call, your name Alexander Gillespie Raymond (1909-1956) , better known as Alex Raymond , this sacred monster I scribbled in the favor of King Features " Secret Agent X-9" in the genre of cops and robbers, "Jungle Jim " to give the mother's lover and Jane Chita , and the third in the historic, legendary and masterpiece that would become part of the universe "geek", "Flash Gordon .
Raymond is part of the" holy trinity " of the sacred cows of modern American comic with Hogarth and Foster, so this blog is proud to make a solemn and humble tribute to the master Raymond for his great contribution to the cartoon world as a good starting point in Plaja in drawing style is worth comment. Even that is now very fashionable Japanese manga - pardon the tautology, but could I say "comic Nipon" but Los Emos Otakus and children addicted to this stream of cartoon would be offended by calling him "Japanese comics" - always I have been very consumer comic Yankee, and one that I have always criticized the Americans that everything used for propaganda and hypocritical his idyllic life American way, my roots in this form of reading and visual and spiritual entertainment that not say "deeply marked by the American comic, and I do not even close to other cultural trends in this so-called ninth art- am loyal fan and reader of Asterix, Tin-Tin, the Fourth Reich, The Oily Boogie - I've always been faithful to its comic aesthetics gringo, is perhaps my resistance against the Japanese edge cultural Tsunami which professes chaviza Mexico today on my barbarian. Master Raymond Ave!. 
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