The Generation of '27 was an influential group of poets that arose in Spanish literary circles between 1923 and 1927, essentially out of a shared desire to experience and work with avant-garde forms of art and poetry. Their first formal meeting took place in Seville in 1927 to mark the 300th anniversary of the death of the baroque poet Luis de Góngora. Writers and intellectuals paid homage at the Ateneo de Sevilla, which retrospectively became the foundational act of the movement.
Luis de Narváez was a Spanish composer and vihuelist. Highly regarded during his lifetime, Narváez is known today for Los seys libros del Delphín, a collection of polyphonic music for the vihuela which includes the earliest known variation sets. He is also notable for being the earliest composer for vihuela to adapt the contemporary Italian style of lute music.
Miguel Mihura Santos was a Spanish playwright. He is best known for his comedy Tres sombreros de copa (1952), a work of absurd humor that predates similar works by Beckett or Ionesco and that broke with many of the previous conventions of Spanish comic theatre. He was also active as a comics artist.
Spanish comics are the comics of Spain. Comics in Spain are usually called historietas or cómics, with tebeos primarily denoting the magazines containing the medium. Tebeo is a phonetic adaptation of TBO, a long-running (1917–1983) Spanish comic magazine, and sounds like "te veo".
Argentine comics are one of the most important comic traditions internationally, and the most important within Latin America, living its "Golden Age" between the 1940s and the 1960s. Soon after, in 1970, the theorist Oscar Masotta synthesized its contributions in the development of their own models of action comics, humor comics and folkloric comics and the presence of other artists.
Antonio Rodríguez Martínez, known as Toño, is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
Carlos Julio Villar Aleman, pen name Carlucho, is a self-taught creator of humorous drawings, known as "Cuba's foremost caricaturist".
K-Hito was the pseudonym of Ricardo García López (1890–1984), Spanish humorist, caricaturist, bullfighting critic, film producer, and magazine publisher. Considered part of the Generation of '27, he was the founder and director of four magazines, in the pages of which he created several characters, such as Gutiérrez, Macaco, Currinche, and Don Turulato.
Antonio García Aranda, known as Toño, is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a left-back.
Juan José Carbó Gatignol was a Spanish cartoonist and one of the great masters of Spanish comics, who won the 2005 Universidad de Alicante "premio Notario del Humor", and signed all his Illustrations with his pseudonym, Carbó. Carbó drew in the mediums of newspapers, journals, children's magazines and even an adult magazine called Reseo.
Carmen Conde Abellán was a Spanish poet, narrative writer and teacher. In 1931 she founded the first Popular University of Cartagena, along with her husband Antonio Oliver Belmás. She was also the first woman to become an academic numerary of the Real Academia Española, where she delivered her induction speech in 1979.
Buen Humor was a satirical and literary magazine published in Madrid, Spain, between 1921 and 1931. It was among the most read satirical magazines in the country during its lifetime in addition to Gutiérrez.
Álvaro de Laiglesia was a Spanish writer and humorist.
Antonio Fraguas de Pablo, better known as Forges, was a Spanish graphic humorist. His artistic name is based on the translation to Catalan of the word fraguas.
Tono or Toño is a masculine given name or nickname that is a diminutive form. Tono is a Catalan, Galician and Spanish diminutive form of Anton, Antoni and Antonio and Toño is a Spanish diminutive form of Antonio. Both spellings are in use in Spain, parts of the United States, Mexico, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Western Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Argentina, Uruguay, and the Falkland Islands, while Tōno is a japanese surname.
La Codorniz was a weekly satirical magazine which was published in Madrid, Spain, between 1941 and 1978. From its start to 1951 its subtitle was Revista de Humor. Then it was changed to La revista más audaz para el lector más inteligente. It is often cited as the most known Spanish satirical magazine in the Francoist Spain and transition period.
Gutiérrez was a Spanish weekly satirical magazine which was in circulation between 1927 and 1934 in Madrid, Spain. Its subtitle was semanario español de humorismo. It was among the most read satirical magazines in the country during its lifetime in addition to Buen Humor.
La Ametralladora was a weekly satirical magazine which was published during the period 1937–1939. It was distributed to the nationalists fighting in the civil war.
Mundo Hispánico was a monthly cultural and political magazine which existed between 1948 and 1977. The subtitle of the magazine was La revista de veintitrés países which indicated the fact that it did not only target readers in Spain, but also those in Latin America. It was one of the publications which supported the Francoist rule.
Vértice was a monthly Falangist magazine published in San Sebastián, Spain, between 1937 and 1946. Its subtitle was Revista nacional de la Falange. From late 1937 it was changed to Revista nacional de Falange Española Tradicionalista y de las J.O.N.S. The magazine was one of the early propaganda publications which supported the rule of Francisco Franco.
