Currito de arrabal

Currito de arrabal was the name of a Mexican cartoon from the 1950s, with drawings and argument by Rafael Araiza. It was published by José G. Cruz Publications from 1955 until the end of that decade. It was a melodramatic work, which had as bullfighting bullfighting and extreme poverty. Argument

The protagonist is Marcial, a child son of a tamalera who lives in a neighborhood of the Peralvillo colony, a marginal area of ​​Mexico City. His mother is the widow of a Villista soldier of the Revolution. Poverty is constantly expressed as a plot and is reflected without compromise: Marcial walks barefoot and has to work, while his mother dresses in cheap clothes and is forced to make great efforts to cope with life, selling tamales and washing other people's clothes . The passion of Marcial is the bulls, and will fight to become a great bullfighter and leave the misery, to be known as the Currito de arrabal.

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