POP PULP / Mexican Comic Book Illustration from the Haas Roche Collection

Opening Reception:Friday, March 29th, 7 to 10PM

Romance! Violence! Crime! Science Fiction!, Horror!
All Sensational! All Surreal! All Irony Free!

The words above capture the feel and subject matter of a small and magnetic niche genre, Mexican Pulp Illustration. Comic and Novella covers needed to grab a customer's attention in a quick second at a checkout counter. Quickly done with the use of garish color, over the top sexuality, and suggested violence, one would be compelled to buy these myriad serial stories of mystery, suspense, and more... once hooked you'd hopefully buy every week. Writers and illustrators were constantly grinding out "stories" on a deadline schedule and the tradition continues to this day... these little comic books can still be purchased at Mexican grocery stores and bodegas, all across the United States and the Americas. The works in the exhibition are from the early 1970's, executed with gouache on illustration board and are what we perceive, the glory days of these unknown and underrated artists.