A representação mexicana e a construção do mito do Oeste nos quadrinhos de Tex

Abstract

This article aims to analyze how the groups that made up the North American West were represented in the first stories of Tex Willer, an Italian comic character (fumetti) created by Giovanni Luigi Bonelli and Aurelio Gallepinni, responsible for the script and art, respectively. In addition to understanding who this character is, how he is conceived, as well as the context in which he is inserted, from his creation and performance in the stories, we will address how the representation of Mexican people encourages the construction of a narrative around the Old West in Comics (HQ) by the character Tex Willer. We will understand how two European authors, in post-war Italy, understood the conquest of the West on the other side of the Atlantic and also how they achieved success with the character, based on a more adult conception of Tex, when Italian newsstands in the 1940 were full of comics of all kinds, especially westerns.