Friday 6 February 2015

Cheap Thrills: The Freakish Fantasy Art of Mexican Pulp Paperbacks

Cheap Thrills: The Freakish Fantasy Art of Mexican Pulp Paperbacks


In the 1960s and ’70s, tens of millions of eyeballs a month looked forward to the latest surreal compositions on the covers of Mexican pulp fiction. Unlike their counterparts in the United States, where steamy sex and the promise of scandal sold best, pulp-fiction covers south of the border usually relied on bizarre visual scenarios, whose WTF weirdness was more important than their overt sexuality.

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