countercultural movements or Underground of 60 and 70 , turned the comic into a receiver-transmitter of his philosophy, humor and myth, and gave him the editorial power, communication, e xpresiva, subversive and experimental enjoys today. At present, the large number of authors who have dedicated themselves to the dissemination of gender, have developed a worldwide movement of transcendence that has come to influence us to our geographical areas.
In Venezuela, the incorporation of the cartoon or comic within journalism began in the early twentieth century and developed as a genre and stable space from the 50's with the humorous magazine "The bald rooster" and characters like "Zamurito" by Carlos Cruz Diez, "Bicho blanks" Humberto Muñoz or "foo" Montilla, who, among others, contributed to form the basis of comic in our country. However, quality the comic has gone missing and has been plagued by deaths and incontinuidad editorial. "The Shipwreck" by Jorge Blanco and the magazine clip , are among the few examples that achieved independence in short serialized format and their trajectories and the comic generally show no growth, leaving it to foreign authors - if you find massive projection -expressions of this genre.
URBAN MYTHS, in this first edition, it raises the potential return of comic in our local context, around a theme and character of the city of Merida 70: Machera .
Myths, bordering between reality and fiction, between historical fact and imagined, provide Machera potential in a character, part of the recent collective memory of the city whose wealth lies not only in the character study, dual and contradictory, popular hero-antihero marginal, but in the study of environment and behavior of a city. Border between "reality", taken from various interviews, press releases and research carried out over several years, and the "fiction" or imaginary built around various realities of the character through the years has been enriched with thousands of stories, Machera, a bridge between historical fact and popular imagination marginal or street Merida has managed to survive to the present through the memory of a Robin Hood in life or a Malandro Holy and Anima Bendita after his death.
is a project that raises the potential return of the Comic as a genre figure of great strength and expressive communication, and is established as a pilot project that brings together illustrators, artists, writers and researchers emerging in terms of generating a product cultural, resulting from oral histories or living myths of urban societies.
arises, an interdisciplinary work between art, sociology, anthropology, illustration and design, to develop, based the character or urban myth and gender the comic, a cultural product that ranges from research and work cam po, the design of the publication format fanzine , or magazine to the realization of exhibitions, lectures, workshops and courses whose purpose is to inter audiovisual artistic areas involved, different social actors and the general public towards reading, rescue oral histories and the promotion of new values \u200b\u200bacross genres emerging alternative media like the comic.
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