Editorial Bruguera
| Parent company | Grupo Z (1986) |
|---|---|
| Status | Defunct (1986) |
| Predecessor | El Gato Negro |
| Founded | 1910 in Barcelona, Spain |
| Founder | Juan Bruguera Teixidó |
| Successor | Ediciones B, Bruguera Mexicana S.A. |
| Country of origin | Spain |
| Headquarters location | Barcelona |
| Key people | Pantaleón Bruguera, Francisco Bruguera Grane |
| Publication types | Comics, magazines, books |
| Fiction genres | Humor, Literature |
Bruguera was a Spanish publishing house based in Barcelona, which was devoted mainly to the production of popular literature and comics. It was created in 1910 as El Gato Negro, changed its name in 1940 and came to possess, as indicated by Jesús Cuadrado:
An industrial plant (in Parets del Vallès), an advertising division (Nueva Línea), a library (Proa), a distributor (Libresa), stamps subsidiaries (Ceres), several branches in the Spanish territory delegations outside (Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Lisbon, Mexico, Portugal, Venezuela), and an internal communication newsletter (Nosotros).
It was dissolved in 1986 and briefly revived as part of Grupo Z in 2006, but today only Bruguera Mexicana S.A. continues publishing and editing books — mainly western fiction — in Mexico, Latin America and the United States.
It was founded in 1910 by Juan Bruguera Teixidó under the name El Gato Negro and specialising in popular literature, joke books and especially in comic magazines. They followed the example of the Spanish comic magazine TBO (founded in 1917) and in 1921 they created Pulgarcito which proved very successful. They published another twenty magazines including Charlot (1928) with content of Film Fun.
After Juan Bruguera's death in 1933 his sons, Pantaleón and Francisco Bruguera Grane, succeeded him.
Pantaleón and Francisco Bruguera changed the name from El Gato Negro to Editorial Bruguera in 1939.
In 1947 the publishing house increased profits with other comics such as El Campeón (1948), Super Pulgarcito (1949), Magos de la Risa (1949) and El DDT (1951); romance novels of Corín Tellado and western novels (notably the ones of Marcial Lafuente Estefanía) and adventure comics such as El Cachorro or Capitán Trueno. In 1957 a group of comic artists tried to secede from the publisher and founded their own magazine Tío Vivo, but they didn't succeed and in 1960 the magazine was acquired by Bruguera. Bruguera also published a comic for girls Sissi.
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