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Alberto Beltrán
[1923-2002]
Born March 22, 1923 in Mexico City. Father is a tailor.
1928-34: primary school, after which, worked with father. Interested in drawing from childhood and continued to sketch while working with father; attended night classes in commercial drawing in San Carlos Academy, Mexico City, for 3 months.
1938: entered commercial art studio and attended commercial art classes. Drew comic strips for newspapers in Mexico City, returned to San Carlos Academy for night classes in engraving and etching.
1944: joined TGP.
Four pages from The Boy who Cried Wolf, 1946, story written in nahuat.

Allegory against reaction, 1946
Persecution and repression of the zapatistas by the dictator Victoriano Huerta, not dated.