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La Valiente: the Woman We’ve Been Waiting For
When Yuyi Morales got word of a call for submission looking for loud, unapologetic women artists to respond to Trump’s misogyny and racism, she had the perfect pitch: La Valiente.
“In the most classic version of Lotería, the card for El Valiente, The Brave One, depicts a man standing up in a ready-to-fight pose and holding a knife in one hand and a zarape in the other. But to me such has never been the right image to depict courage. So, I made my own version, hence, La Valiente,” Morales writes.
We agree. La Valiente is just the woman we need for these times!
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“I am not sick, I am not broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.” - Frida
On this day, July 6, in 1907, artist Frida Kahlo is born in Coyoacan, Mexico City. Known as the “Heroine of Pain,” Kahlo’s art captures both her anguish and indomitable spirit. Her courage and creative genius remains an inspiration to Mexicans and the world.
Frida Kahlo: Heroine of Pain
Cartoonist Gavin Aung Than of Zen Pencils has followed up with another beautiful comic strip dedicated to the late, great Frida Kahlo. This time, the comic is a brief and poignant yet optimistic biography of Kahlo, in classic Aung Than form.
FromZen Pencils:
“Frida began painting self-portraits, something she would do for the rest of her life, constantly examining herself and looking inward. After the tragedy of the accident Frida was reborn and had found new life in painting: ‘From that time my obsession was to begin again, painting things just as I saw them with my own eyes and nothing more.’ It’s an origin story befitting a superhero, and Frida continued to live a heroic life despite decades of more agony and suffering.”
See Zen Pencil’s “Strange like me” comic
See Think Mexican’s Frida Kahlo archive
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