Rius

Mexican cartoonist

Also known as: Eduardo del Río

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In comic strip: The fact-based comic: historical, didactic, political, narrative
…Gonick and the Mexican cartoonist Rius (Eduardo del Río). These are at once elementary introductions and sophisticated presentations of sometimes difficult material (Gonick, for instance, has produced “cartoon guides” to physics, genetics, and computer science); they mix line drawings and explanations with asides, political observations, touches of satire, and farcical,…
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In comic strip: Comics in Latin America
…largely for the work of Rius. In his best-known series, starting in the 1960s, Los supermachos (“The Supermales”), followed by Los agachados (1968–81; “The Crouching”), which was very popular also in English translation, Rius was critical, controversial, and censored. He mocked social inequity and bourgeois values with an instinctive comic…
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