José Escobar
Carpanta
Pulgarcito #1380
Bruguera, 1957
Created by José Escobar for the magazine Pulgarcito in 1947, Carpanta became one of the most representative comic series of the Spanish post-war period. The main character, Carpanta (a word which means “atrocious hunger”), is a poor man always hungry who dreams of satisfying his appetite but who, due to his bad luck, generally always ends without eating. Only on some (rare) occasion he finally achieves his goal, especially after the intervention of the censorship, which considered that in Franco’s Spain “nobody went hungry”.
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