Illustrations from the 1920s Spanish satirical magazine Buen Humor
1922, illus. Tono
These scans come from the sprawling Hemeroteca Digital database of the National Library of Spain. Graphic artist and cartoonist Pedro Antonio Villahermosa y Borao (nicknamed Sileno) started Buen Humor in 1921. It ran for 400 or 500 issues (Hermeroteca houses 410) until 1931. You can read more about it (in Spanish) here.
I've previously featured some of the illustrators who worked on Buen Humor: Rafael de Penagos (1889-1954), Lluis Bagaria Bou (1882-1940), Ricardo García López (1890-1984) aka K-Hito, Francisco López Rubio (1895-1965), and Salvador Bartolozzi.
Once again, my friend Alfonso Melendez turned me on to this work.
1926, illus. Riveron
1922, illus. Herrero
1926, illus. Castillo
1922, illus. Penagos
1922
1921 (front)
1921 (back)
1926, illus. Alfaraz
1922, illus. Bagaria
1921, illus. Lopez Rubio
1921, illus. Pérez Durías
1922, Pérez Durías
1926, Bilbao
1921, illus. Ribas
1923, illus. K-Hito
1923, illus. K-Hito
1922, illus. K-Hito
1921, illus. K-Hito
1926, illus. Tono
1922, illus. Alonso
1922, illus. Garran
1922, illus. Lopez Rubio
1922, illus. Castanys
1922, illus. Tono
1923, illus. K-Hito
1922, illus. Barberi (?)
1923, illus. Galindo
1923, illus. Diaz-Anton
1922
This post first appeared on April 17, 2014 on 50 Watts
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