The serious cartoonist who depicted the Spanish political transition.
It is amazing to learn about the quality and historical value of some of the original drawings that one can find in a flea market for a handful of coins. To catch a good piece all you need is a little patience and attention, and probably a certain artistic eye. The drawing I show below was acquired at the Tetuán street market in Madrid on October 24, 2021, and was produced by the great cartoonist Máximo San Juan Arranz (Máximo) in 1977. Graphic humour, by Máximo. Indian ink on Marca Mayor paper. Size: 285 x 225 mm. This drawing was published full-page in the fortnightly magazine Telva in mid-March 1977 (No. 324, SARPE, Madrid, p. 30). In the author's unmistakable style, this original sketch by Máximo is of great interest as it is representative of those uncertain years of the Spanish political transition to democracy, in the year prior to the approval of the Spanish Constitution. Stylistically, it presents a parallelism with the schematic and linear drawings that its author made f...