CHICA BOOM

They picked a fight with the wrong woman.

We still have some pieces of Mexican comic book art, so we’re back to that stack of pasteboards today. This one was made for the Editorial La Foca series Chicas del volante, number eighteen in the run, a 1993 installment titled La bravura campesina. If you use an online translator it’ll probably tell you a campesina is a peasant. That’s correct, but as Spanish speakers “peasant” isn’t the connotation we personally get from the word. To us, it means a woman who lives in the country and probably works on a farm. Is that a peasant? Maybe so. This woman looks more urban, but either way, she knows how to use her sharp corners, as one assailant is catching an elbow to the chops while the other’s gonads are being driven into his abdominal cavity by her knee. What a bizarre and violent piece, but then they all are. That why we share them. See here and here, for examples. The verso of these often strike us artful too, due to discoloration and notations, so we’ve added that below. There’s no signature front or back, so the artist here is unknown.

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The headlines that mattered yesteryear.

February 18

1954—First Church of Scientology Established

The first Scientology church, based on the writings of science fiction author L. Ron Hubbard, is established in Los Angeles, California. Since then, the city has become home to the largest concentration of Scientologists in the world, and its ranks include high-profile adherents such as Tom Cruise and John Travolta.

February 17

1933—Blaine Act Passes

The Blaine Act, a congressional bill sponsored by Wisconsin senator John J. Blaine, is passed by the U.S. Senate and officially repeals the 18th Amendment to the United States Constitution, aka the Volstead Act, aka Prohibition. The repeal is formally adopted as the 21st Amendment to the Constitution on December 5, 1933.

February 17

1947—Voice of America Begins Broadcasting into U.S.S.R.

The state radio channel known as Voice of America and controlled by the U.S. State Department, begins broadcasting into the Soviet Union in Russian with the intent of countering Soviet radio programming directed against American leaders and policies. The Soviet Union responds by initiating electronic jamming of VOA broadcasts.

February 16

1937—Carothers Patents Nylon

Wallace H. Carothers, an American chemist, inventor and the leader of organic chemistry at DuPont Corporation, receives a patent for a silk substitute fabric called nylon. Carothers was a depressive who for years carried a cyanide capsule on a watch chain in case he wanted to commit suicide, but his genius helped produce other polymers such as neoprene and polyester. He eventually did take cyanideâ€”not in pill form, but dissolved in lemon juiceâ€”resulting in his death in late 1937.

February 15

1933—Franklin Roosevelt Survives Assassination Attempt

In Miami, Florida, Giuseppe Zangara attempts to shoot President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt, but is restrained by a crowd and, in the course of firing five wild shots, hits five people, including Chicago, Illinois Mayor Anton J. Cermak, who dies of his wounds three weeks later. Zangara is quickly tried and sentenced to eighty years in jail for attempted murder, but is later convicted of murder when Cermak dies. Zangara is sentenced to death and executed in Florida’s electric chair.