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Tijuana and bibles
Many had an uninhibited, often irreverent style ; their frank depictions of nudity, sex, profanity, and politics had no parallel outside their precursors, the pornographic and even more obscure " Tijuana bibles ".
Eisner said that on one occasion a man who Eisner described as " a Mob type straight out of Damon Runyon, complete with pinkie ring, broken nose, black shirt, and white tie, who claimed to have ' exclusive distribution rights for all Brooklyn " asked Eisner to draw Tijuana bibles for $ 3 a page.
( The earliest and most popular comics in mini-and digest sizes — predating not only the term minicomic, but even the standard comic-book format — were the anonymous and pornographic Tijuana bibles of the 1920s.
Morse, the original artist on Bazooka Joe, was also the artist for many of the pornographic drawings collected into so-called " Tijuana bibles " or " eight-pagers ", popular in the pre-war period, which are considered a precursor to the underground comix of the 1960s and 1970s.
Tijuana bibles ( also known as eight-pagers, bluesies, gray-backs, Jiggs-and-Maggie books, jo-jo books, Tillie-and-Mac books, and two-by-fours ) were little pornographic comic books produced in the United States from the 1920s to the early 1960s.
Most Tijuana bibles were obscene parodies of popular newspaper comic strips of the day, like " Blondie ", " Barney Google ", " Moon Mullins ", " Popeye ", " Tillie the Toiler ", " Dick Tracy ", " Little Orphan Annie ", " Bringing Up Father ", " Dixie Dugan ", and " Mutt and Jeff ".
The most popular cartoon characters appearing in Tijuana bibles in the 1930s, judging by the number of their appearances, were Popeye and Blondie.
The term " Tijuana bibles " refers to the apocryphal belief that they were manufactured and smuggled across the border from Tijuana, Mexico.
In some senses, Tijuana bibles were the first underground comix.
Renowned comic artist and advocate of the medium of comics Art Spiegelman notes that records of prosecutions against publishers and artists for making Tijuana bibles do not seem to exist ; the cartoonist added, however, that on occasion authorities seized shipments and people selling Tijuana bibles.
In the early days of Tijuana bibles they could be shipped in bulk around the country through commercial express offices.
The total number of Tijuana bibles printed and sold in the heyday of the bibles in the 1930s was in the millions.
But the number of new Tijuana bibles being produced took a nosedive at the beginning of World War II, and the industry never recovered.
Police raids and the retirement of Doc Rankin, who was called up by the military at the beginning of the war, along with wartime shortages of paper and printing supplies, may have been factors in the decline of the Tijuana bibles at this time.
The quality of Tijuana bibles available on the market suffered, and prices dropped as sales plummeted.
Little is known about the anonymous artists who produced the Tijuana bibles.
A number of books have alleged that the freelance cartoonist Doc Rankin may have been the creator of numerous Tijuana bibles in the 1930s, although this remains unproven.
These five artists between them may have drawn half of all the Tijuana bibles ever done.

Tijuana and without
On September 6, 2001 there was an accident without any fatalities, it was a Saab 340B's with registration XA-ACK which crash-landed 15 miles southeast of Tijuana.
Though she spurns him when he reveals that he and Mercer left a motel in Tijuana in flames without helping people to escape, she realizes her feelings for him when he comes to her aid after she is drugged by the Hearst rapist.

Tijuana and found
Many foreigners travel to Tijuana to drink and dance, buy prescription drugs, purchase bootleg brand-name clothing, timepieces, and other personal accessories found globally, as well as manufactured and hand-crafted local curiosities.
People filling up prescriptions for drugs classified in the US as Schedule II or Schedule III have found it more difficult to locate such medications, and the purchase of pseudoephedrine also has become restricted by Tijuana pharmacies, as it is in the United States.
In 1938, while serving in Tijuana, Mexico, he was accused of the rape and murder of Olga Camacho Martínez, an eight-year-old girl who disappeared on February 13, 1938 and whose decapitated body was found shortly thereafter.
AAA also looked for talent from other markets, as they found and signed Tijuana natives Rey Mysterio, Jr. and Psicosis.
One study conducted at the Tijuana / San Diego border found that by asking groups intent on drinking to identify the designated driver prior to entering the bar district, the driver later returned with substantially lower BACs compared with the control groups.

Tijuana and popular
This makes Tijuana a popular city for migrant workers as well as college graduates from other parts of Mexico as well as other countries to the south.
Some popular norteño artists include Ramón Ayala, ( David Pimentel ) Los Cadetes de Linares, Los Tigres del Norte, Los Huracanes del Norte, Los Tucanes de Tijuana, and Los Invasores de Nuevo Leon.
Furthermore, the band is not from Tijuana, Mexico regardless of popular belief.
* a popular nickname for Tijuana, Mexico

Tijuana and culture
Kem Nunn's novel, Tijuana Straits, provides insight into the culture of the border and surfing in Imperial Beach and the Tijuana River Valley, and the environmental problems that impact residents of Tijuana, Imperial Beach and Coronado.
Kearney mostly sought out partners in San Diego and in Tijuana, Mexico, where he used his fluency in Spanish and keen interest in Latin American culture as a basis to connect with potential partners.

Tijuana and at
Tijuana is also home to many businesses selling products and services at a much cheaper rate than in the United States.
Graffiti in Tijuana may seem at first to consist largely of simplistic tags and thus not as technically evolved, colorful, or accepted in the mainstream as the " pieces " of graffiti scenes of the United States, Europe, or Japan, but large, colorful graffiti murals adorn walls from both native Tijuanan artists as well as visiting graffiti writers, especially from California.
Club Tijuana | Xolos playing at Estadio Caliente
The series ( from Executive Producer David Milch, writer Kem Nunn, and director Mark Tinker ) was filmed at a variety of locations in Imperial Beach and in the Tijuana River Valley.
The only boxers to get past the third round during that streak were Al Torres and Antonio Cataneda, who lasted 5 and 9 rounds respectively, both at Tijuana.
Another common story related the Margarita being invented a few years earlier at the Rancho La Gloria Hotel, halfway between Tijuana and Rosarito, Mexico, by Carlos " Danny " Herrera, for a former Ziegfeld dancer named Marjorie King.
Eventually nicknamed " Banana Nose " by his confreres, Arcaro won his first race in 1932 at the Agua Caliente racetrack in Tijuana, Mexico.
San Diego International Airport, also known as Lindbergh Field, is a public airport located northwest of the central business district of San Diego, California and from the Mexico – United States border at Tijuana, Mexico.
Recorded names of her horses include " Irish Maid ", " Blue Bird ", " Jimmy Rain ", " Sam Carpenter ", and " Little Brown Jug ", the last of which she reportedly raced at Tijuana, Baja California.
Anna Lee Aldred ( 1921 – 2006 ) was given a license at age 18 in 1939 at Agua Caliente Racetrack in Tijuana, Mexico when officials were unable to find a rule that would bar women jockeys and she finished second by a nose in her first professional race.
The Arellano Felix Organization ( Tijuana Cartel ), the largest and most sophisticated of the Mexican cartels at the time, received the brunt of the blows.
As the station was actually licensed by the Mexican government to the city of Tijuana, but broadcasts all of its programs in English for the US market, the FCC limit at that time of a maximum of 18 minutes of commercials in an hour did not apply to the station.
Hackworth died on May 4, 2005 at the age of 74 in Tijuana, Mexico.
Bender, an industrial metalworking robot, was built in 2997 at Fábrica Robotica De La Madre ( Spanish: " Mom's Robot Factory "), a manufacturing facility of Mom's Friendly Robot Company in Tijuana, Mexico.
Margarito made his debut at the age of 15, beating Jose Trujillo in Tijuana by decision.
The airport normally serves as the primary alternate airport for flights headed to General Abelardo L. Rodríguez International Airport in Tijuana, therefore, it is not unusual to see planes otherwise headed to Tijuana being diverted to Hermosillo due to unfavorable weather at Tijuana or other technical problems.
Everything changes when Lennox shows up late one night ( in June 1950 ) at Marlowe's place, asking for a ride to the Tijuana airport.
Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta ( February 10, 1950 – March 23, 1994 ) was a Mexican politician, and PRI presidential candidate, who was assassinated at a campaign rally in Tijuana during the Mexican Presidential campaign of 1994.
At 7: 12 PM, on March 23, 1994, at a campaign rally in Lomas Taurinas, a poor neighborhood of Tijuana, Baja California, Colosio was shot in the head with a. 38 Special a distance of a few centimeters in front of a person recording video nearby.
Traffic in Tijuana, Mexico waiting at the San Ysidro port of entry into the United States.
San Ysidro is home to the world's busiest land border crossing, where U. S. Interstate 5 crosses into Mexico at Tijuana.
Campas also beat former world champion Jorge Vaca by a knockout in round two at Tijuana, before receiving his first world title fight, September 17 of 1994 against Félix Trinidad for the IBF welterweight title, as part of a Pay Per View undercard that featured Julio César Chávez's rematch against Meldrick Taylor for the WBC light welterweight title.

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