Vida y muerte del Espíritu del 12 de febrero. El fracaso del último intento reformista del franquismo en el humor gráfico de la prensa diaria (1974-1975)

Abstract

This article analyzes the vision of daily press graphic humor regarding the last aperturist attempt of Franco's dictatorship, known as the Espíritu del 12 de febrero. To do this, the article analyzes strips published between February, 1974 and November, 1975 (date of the death of Francisco Franco) by the main Spanish newspapers of the time (Abc, El Alcázar, Informaciones, La Vanguardia, and Ta). The conclusion is that the reformist initiative was greeted with a generally skeptical attitude in political caricatures published in these newspapers.

Keywords

• Spain
• contemporary history
• francoism
• graphic humor.