Francisco G. Algibay

From 1938 to 1943, Francisco G. Algibay (1901-1975), under the pseudonym ‘Couto,’ published various cartoons in Frente Popular and España Libre to illustrate European fascism and its support for Franco. Couto, who worked at a meat market in the Bronx, was described as a revolutionary cartoonist (“Jerónimo Villarino.” Frente Popular Oct. 15, 1937). Couto could be considered an “enlightened worker,” a concept suggested by Jorell Meléndez Badillo to describe workers who adopt new identities in their free time, identities denied during the workday.