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WRITE TO THE AUTHOR OF CHECHO LOPEZ AT: CHECHOLOPEZ-COMICS@OUTLOOK.COM / FOLLOW CHECHO LOPEZ IN

CHECHOjS BOOK TRAILER

PHOTO BY: HU SHI ZHEN

INTRODUCTION TO THE

HISTORY OF MY LEGENDARY

COMICS CHARACTER SERIES,

CHECHO LOPEZ. IT COVERS THE

TIME PERIOD DURING WHICH HE

EXISTED AND WHAT MADE HIM

SO ENDEARING, UP TO THE

PRESENT DAY.

FIND OUT MORE ABOUT CHECHO

LOPEZ AND HIS AUTHOR IN THIS

DOCUMENTARY - INTERVIEW

DEAR READER,

IjM MARTIN RAMIREZ, AUTHOR OF THE SOCIAL SATIRE COMICS CHARACTER CHECHO LOPEZ. MY CHARACTERjS STORIES WERE PUBLISHED BY A BRAVE AND IRREVERENT UNDERGROUND COMICS MAGAZINE CALLED TRAUKO”BETWEEN 1988 AND 1991 IN CHILE. THOSE WERE THE FINAL YEARS OF A GRUESOME MILITARY DICTATORSHIP, SO IT WASNjT A MINOR THING TO COME UP WITH SOME KIND OF COUNTERCULTURAL PUBLICATION. CHECHO LOPEZ IS A MAN WHOSE LIFE IS IN FREE FALL AND WITHOUT A SAFETY NET. HIS WAY OF NOT GIVING UP AND SURVIVE TO ALL THAT LIFE AND SOCIETY KEPT THROWING AT HIM MADE HIM ENDEARING FOR READERS. I HAD OFFERS FOR MY BOOK COMPILING AND REPUBLISHING ALL HIS 25 STORIES BY SEVERAL RESPECTABLE PUBLISHERS, BUT NONE OF THEM CONVINCED ME. THATjS WHY I DECIDED TO START UP AND PUBLISH IT MYSELF. 

WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF CHECHO LOPEZ,

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