Cartoonists under the Franco dictatorship

In the Spain of 1957, being a strip cartoonist was a trade. Rather than artists, they were cartoon workers-for-hire. They charged Bruguera by the page, worked on a job-byjob basis, and gave up their original ideas and their author rights in exchange for collecting a paycheck. But that same year, five extraordinary cartoonists famous for their characters dared to rebel.