Comic Books!

I come from a country where comic books are not as popular as in the United States, but of course I heard of some of them since many years before. There are two specific comic books that have a lot of meaning for me.

I remember the first comic book that I read, it was named “The adventures of Asterix” by the French illustrator Albert Uderzo, and it was about a Galician man in the times of the roman empire named Asterix who, like “Popeye” and the spinach,  when he drinks a “special soup” made by his best friend Obelisk, gets super powers. Sincerely when I read that comic book, was just because it was funny. Now, after listening to Dr. Nolan´s speech “Sublime”   I understand better the huge meaning that a comic book might have and how this, as any other artwork can reflect the reality of different eras,  this in a particular tries to represent the resistance that the Galician made against the romans, providing incredible information about how was live at that era.

The second comic book that I want to mention is an icon of Latin-American. “Mafalda” is a comic book made by the Argentinian drawer Quino, and it about a little girl who sometimes seems to have a more critical way to view the world than any other adult and gets involved in a lot of  situations where the authors uses the irony to provocation of laugh between the readers. However Mafalda can be perceived as a critic to the situation of Argentina on that context of dictators and conflicts during the Cold War era.

I feel that now, reading comics will be more exciting not only for the funny and fantastic element of them, but because of the source of information that they can provide about different places and epochs in the world.