CONICET | Buscador de Institutos y Recursos Humanos

This exposition, written within the ?Estudios y Crítica de la Historieta Argentina? research team, placed at Universidad Nacional de Córdoba and related to the CRIC Project, belongs to an academic subproject on the production and reception of Argentine comics during the Argentine transition to democracy and the years of the post-dictatorship. Researching the field of the realistic Argentine comics implies to attend the structural factors, considering that comics were born as part of the cultural industry and subordinated to the market field. But also we give importance to the actors construction practices, as a part of the field, who, in certain historical situations, introduce important modifications and moments of relative autonomy from the economic field. We emphasize the period of the second half the seventies with the appearance of the publishers Ediciones Récord and Ediciones de La Urraca, the 1976-83 dictatorship period and democracy return. Our academic subproject is particularly focused in researching the most prominent writers of that moment, as Héctor Germán Oesterheld (disappeared in 1977), Robin Wood and Carlos Trillo. In this opportunity we are interested in the work of the last one. Titles as Las Puertitas del Sr. López, Alvar Mayor, El último recreo and Cybersix, have the reputation of being among the greatest in the Argentine graphic narrative, and have received attention and recognition from inside and outside the comic production and consumption field. Throughout various periods of crisis and changes, Trillo could see the way to upgrade and renew his style and managed to be maintained over time. Finally, this lecture works in new theoretical and methodological approach to research into the production and use of comics in Argentina during a crisis period which cultural and social environment and circumstances had changed radically: the decade 75-85 when the scriptwriter Carlos Trillo came to mark an era.