Comic Of A Heroine Who Saves Puerto Rico

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

La Borinqueña is a Puerto Rican heroine created by artist Edgardo Miranda-Rodríguez, who hopes that this comic character will help Puerto Rico recover from the devastating consequences of Hurricane María.

That is the goal of the character created by the Puerto Rican cartoonist, 10 months ago before the hurricane hit the Island, and which bears the same name as the Island's national anthem.

As the note from the Puerto Rican newspaper El Nuevo Día explains, the plot of the first copy made by Miranda-Rodríguez before María's passage presents the Borinqueña -a young Puerto Rican who studies in the United States- returns to Puerto Rico to help her people.

Why are you coming back? The Island is hit by a hurricane and remains without electricity. Incredible coincidence with reality.

It seems as if the creator had had a premonition and captured it through his art.

What makes La Borinqueña even more significant at the moment is that it is not only the story of a comic featuring a warrior, noble and intelligent woman who fights for her people.

Miranda-Rodríguez has organized a visual exhibition with images of Puerto Rican heroin made by international artists at the Bronx cultural center, Casita María, to benefit victims of the hurricane in Puerto Rico, explains El Nuevo Día. The proceeds will go to benefit the Piñones Integra Corporation. Likewise, the note states that the Puerto Rican designer called on Puerto Ricans in New York to help rebuild their country.