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Raquel Córcoles
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Reus, Tarragona, 1986. Better known as Moderna de Pueblo, the protagonist of her comics, she has just published 'Coñodramas' (Zenith).
After sweeping social media, it has become a best-selling publishing phenomenon.
Humor and feminism.
Who is your comic 'Coñodramas' aimed at? My loyal audience is women in a huge percentage, and I have assumed it, but whoever wants to join is welcome. How do you imagine your male readers are? I suppose they are deconstructed men or in the process of deconstruction of his masculinity. I have noticed that among guys there is a bit of shame for reading an author. The few who have come to the firms admitted that they were ashamed to admit that they were a fan because, being a female protagonist and talking about issues that affect us the most ... I thought, how sad! Because even those who want to read you have to deal with the stigma that you shouldn't like that if you're a man man! And that comic is more associated with male readers. When I started making comics a lot of people told me that there aren't any women who read them. But I was amazed to see so many interested. Of course, Moderna de Pueblo's comics are among the best sellers in the country. Every stigma and every prejudice can condition you. Why am I doing this story of superheroines if I have always been bored by superhero stories and even superheroines have made me very lazy? That was the challenge: to analyze why I am not attracted to them and to build a story from scratch in which it is not simply to put a woman in the usual set and story. How is Moderna de Pueblo? It is a comic that began by being interested in modernity, cultural concerns, fashions, trends ... and, in the end, also in ideology, inclusivity, diversity and how the society of the future. I like that she is a character who comes from the town and questions how she has been educated and where she would like to evolve. Humor is key in her stories, but what is humor for you? What makes you laugh, as simple as that. I always try to tell serious things while you laugh. Like when you put spinach or fish in a croquette for children to make them like it more, I approach super-important, serious and necessary topics, but with humor. And does humor have limits? The limits of humor go with each one. I am very amused that, sometimes, feminism is branded as having limits in humor, but there is a large part of the public that imposes limits on me and tells me 'don't do feminist humor'. I am not amused by a racist joke, and if someone tells me that I could have been offensive to a group, I consider it and decide if they are right. There are people who confuse the fact that they put limits on them with that they make them question their own prejudices. I prefer to question them. You have to make humor with which you feel comfortable, knowing that there will be a part that is not going to be funny and another that seems inappropriate. In humor, criticism needs to be fitted. Those who complain the most about limits are those who do not know how to fit in because something is being criticized. Is it legal to laugh at feminism? Laughing at the bad is better than at the good. If I laugh at a disabled person, someone can tell me, it's fun! For you, yes, but for many people, no. If for me feminism is super necessary and there are many sectors that demonize or ridicule it, it would not contribute to making us laugh at it. If you focus on laughing at what is intended to improve things, ask yourself why. That feminism is fashionable is good or bad? It's good, imagine that you have to explain everything. Level 1 already has everyone. If the slogan "no es no" becomes fashionable and is said by artists and
influencer
, perhaps one person is left only with the "no is no", but others are interested and wonder why that motto.
It seems great and logical to me that it is fashionable. What do we do with the guardians of feminism? Who are they? There are groups that believe they are owners of feminism and what are the correct interpretations of each issue. That goes with character.
I question everything, I listen to many sides and I empathize with everyone in some way.
When someone is very dogmatic, they say this is not feminism!
or that's not left!
There are people who are more intransigent, totalitarian or dogmatic.
In all currents there are people who believe with absolute reason, as if it were a kind of RAE, who gives the license.
Perhaps the feminism police are demonized, but there is one in all fields.
What is the most macho thing that has happened to you? Go to the Comic Fair, sit down at the table to sign copies and have an author uncle come and say "excuse me, this is for authors."
Hasn't this man thought that I'm a comic book author?
Do you think I'm resting on my heels?
It was difficult for me to understand the situation and understand his brain because he said it with a certainty.
Later, he was another author, who was by my side for an hour seeing that my queue to sign copies was longer than his.
And I, swelling to sign.
If they call her "feminazi" ... She says more about the other person than about me.
There are people who hear the slightest claim of feminism and, as if it were a proofreader of the Word, they jump feminazi!
These people are not interested in reflecting and use this word almost as a shield so that these ideas do not enter their head, Vox gains followers with a non-feminist discourse, parties like Vox campaign against something that, for me, is the ideal, and is that each one lives as they feel, we all know how to respect the one next door and be diverse.
Painting it as something bad I do not understand.
I am afraid that it will spread because, if you do a campaign very well, it works.
Things not only have to be said or done, but also sold well.
And sometimes these parties sell it well.
It worries me because there are messages that are a setback in what matters most, which is the right to diversity.
Your book is called 'Coñodramas', do uncles suffer from their 'pitodramas' too? Totally, in fact many of the
coñodramas
are related to them. Do you like to provoke men? No.
Not at all.
The goal is not to attack but to understand the problem.
But sometimes you speak a truth like a temple and they feel attacked.
You make a joke from your perspective as aunt and it comes out to ridicule the man more, but they have laughed so much at us!
The silly blonde, the bitter woman, the screaming wife, the mother-in-law ... Now they have to give us the right to laugh at them.
And if they don't give it to us, we take it ourselves.
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