Super Cholita

Súper Cholita is a Bolivian comic book character created by Rolando Valdez and Santos Callisaya in 2007. She is the eponymous heroine of a popular comic inspired by local female wrestlers and Japanese comics, "perhaps ... the best-selling title in the history of Bolivian comics."[1] Her humorous, ironic adventures are written by Valdez and illustrated by Callisaya and Gladys Castro Mamani.

Súper Cholita
Súper Cholita, from the first issue of the comic
Publication information
PublisherRepublica
First appearanceSúper Cholita #1 (May 2007)
Created byRolando Valdez
Santos Callisaya
In-story information
Alter egoFrancisca Pizzaro Mamani
AbilitiesFlight, strength, toughness, wrestling skills

Character portrayal

Súper Cholita is portrayed as "a folksy incarnation of a female superhero rooted in a combination of Japanese aesthetics, Mexican cultural tradition, and Bolivian politics."[1] Her super powers, including that of flight, emanate from the sacred temple of Tiwanaku, and she is costumed in the heavy blanket skirts of the Altiplano. In her civilian identity, she is the Aymara woman Francisca Pizzaro Mamani, daughter of a cholita and a nameless pepino (a traditional carnival clown often deemed responsible for fatherless children), and granddaughter of a mythical highland frog. Her love interest is a policeman.

While Súper Cholita uses her powers to help the poor, her behavior is not always as exemplary as that of most superheroes. She has been shown as a boastful, strident complainer, inclined to stuff herself with rellenos de papa, who is not above pilfering from a female potato vendor or bribing a policeman to avoid arrest. She possesses strong views, detesting imperialism and corrupt politicos, criticizing looters, and standing against the autonomy movements threatening Bolivia's unity.

Notes
  1. L'Hoeste, Héctor Fernández. "Súper Cholita and Bolivian Comics: In Search of Cultural and Political Hegemony." Article in the International Journal of Comic Art, v. 15, no. 1, spring 2013, pp. 69–83.
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