Showing posts with label Carlos Ezquerra. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Carlos Ezquerra. Show all posts
Saturday, 23 July 2016
Tuesday, 12 October 2010
El Mestizo
By Carlos Ezquerra. Battle dated 25th June 1977. In an interview conducted a few years ago CS was asked:
Of all the strips you've been part of over the years, which one would you most like to bring back if you could?
I wouldn't mind to bring back El Mestizo, it appeared in Battle with Alan Hebden script, about a black guy caught in the middle of the American civil war, he wasn't very popular (a black hero in the earlier seventies!) but I think it was a nice character.
Of all the strips you've been part of over the years, which one would you most like to bring back if you could?
I wouldn't mind to bring back El Mestizo, it appeared in Battle with Alan Hebden script, about a black guy caught in the middle of the American civil war, he wasn't very popular (a black hero in the earlier seventies!) but I think it was a nice character.
Tuesday, 2 June 2009
El Mestizo
Art by Carlos Ezquerra. From Battle dated 23rd July 1977. I'm putting this one up here out of guilt. When I was reading Battle at the time I felt a certain kind of outrage/betrayal when this strip appeared. How dare they have a non WW1/WW2 strip in Battle! Ahem... sad, I know. Well, I was only 11 at the time. I just had no interest in the American Civil War: I liked tanks, aircraft and machine guns. Brrrrrrrrrt! K-pow, k-pow; ker-ping!!
I think that I wasn't the only one of Battle's readers who disliked the strip. It never returned after it's initial run. It's a shame really, because I think the comic would have been better if it had broadened it's subject matter... I'd like to read the complete El Mestizo run again. I think it deserves another chance.
Also, let's not forget (and to state the obvious) it's one of the few comics where a black character plays the lead-rather than being a side-kick or servant to a honky.
I think that I wasn't the only one of Battle's readers who disliked the strip. It never returned after it's initial run. It's a shame really, because I think the comic would have been better if it had broadened it's subject matter... I'd like to read the complete El Mestizo run again. I think it deserves another chance.
Also, let's not forget (and to state the obvious) it's one of the few comics where a black character plays the lead-rather than being a side-kick or servant to a honky.
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