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This article surveys the early intermedial work of Abril Lamarque, a Cuban illustrator, graphic designer, and art director in New York, who created the first comic strip in Spanish for newspapers in Latin America (Monguito , 1925–1933) and the first caricature broadcast over the radio, a genre he called the "radio-cature" (1926). The article tracks the inter-American routes of the young artist between Santiago de Cuba and New York, examines the development of his caricature in print cultures and on airwaves in Cuba and the United States, and highlights the transnational networks and reading and listening publics, as well as infrastructures of empire, that his work brings into sharper relief. The following analysis of Lamarque's unparalleled genre innovations illuminates the visual and sonic imprints of Cuban diasporic cultural production in New York in the 1920s and 1930s and enhances, while also reorienting, a broader landscape of graphic modernity in the Americas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
