HUMOR IN TROUBLED TIMES. THE END OF THE COLD WAR IN CARTOONS (1979-1989)

This book addresses the historic moment experienced during the end of the Cold War, focusing on the graphic humor published in the three main newspapers of the time: ABC, El País, and La Vanguardia. In an ideological struggle in which winning the hearts and minds of the Spanish people was as important as winning them, Morera highlights how graphic humor played an important role. The author places us in the world of the 1980s, rigorously contextualizing each cartoon, providing us with the elements for understanding it today, that is, several decades later. In this way, she manages to transport us to that period, both dramatic and comical, in which two superpowers on either side of the Iron Curtain armed themselves to the teeth with a nuclear arsenal they would never dare to use, while staging endless conferences about a disarmament in which no one believed. Works like this allow us to once again confirm the importance that the press had at the time as an agent of historical change, contributing to the creation of certain states of opinion within society.