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Displacement Replacement/Desplazado Reemplazado Pt. 1

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A spanglish comic series that chronicles displacement. The immigrant journey to find a place they can call home may take generations. Their journey triggers change and inspires other communities to solidify their social thread.

Image: A black and white comic cover with a red and blue title, "Displacement Replacement/Desplazado Reamplazado 1 of 3 by Carlos Matallana" The illustration shows Tio with his two nephews as he is exclaiming, "Time to learn your history ¡Pinches guevones!" with a smaller image with the same characters with Tio pointing to both of them saying, "I am talking to you two!"
Image: A black and white comic cover with a red and blue title, "Displacement Replacement/Desplazado Reamplazado 1 of 3 by Carlos Matallana" The illustration shows Tio with his two nephews as he is exclaiming, "Time to learn your history ¡Pinches guevones!" with a smaller image with the same characters with Tio pointing to both of them saying, "I am talking to you two!"
Image: a map showing city zones in transition with an illustrated Tio explaining, "The first large waves of Puerto Ricans arrived to Chicago between 1940's-1950's as recruits from the island for nonunion foundries, domestic work, and other job openings for which there were no domestic takers. Initially placed in temporary housing, they eventually rented properties made available by white flight. Many of Chicago's north side neighborhoods were established by working-class immigrants, including Polish, German, and Puerto Rican communities." The map shows a Puerto Rican Flag in the third zone of workingmen's homes.
Image: An black and white photograph of Young Lords with a femme presenting person in the center holding a radio style megaphone above her head. The text bubble reads, "Forced assimilation by the church pushed PR's to organize and turn to activism in the 1960's joining the coalition against urban renewal in the Near West Side and confronting urban renewal in Lincoln Park under the leadership of the Young Lords, an organization akin to the Black Panthers, which City Hall attacked relentlessly through its infamous Red Squad," spoken by an illustrated Tio.
Image: A black and white photograph edited of a young lord speaking to a microphone. Illustrated tio is shown with two conversation bubbles that read, "The movement for fair housing, self-determination and human rights was launched by Mr. José 'Cha-Cha' Jimenez, founder of the Young Lords Movement. Tactics used by the Young Lords include mass education, canvassing, community programs, occupations, and direct confrontation. The Young Lords inspired young community leaders, professionals, and artists, forming part of a Puerto Rican cultural renaissance in the 1970's. In New York City, the renaissance was called the 'Nuyorican' Movement and became a nationwide development including poetry and music."
Image: A blue background image with shapes that resemble houses featuring the three characters drawn in all black doodles with Tio speaking, "Unlike most European immigrants that came in groups, PR's came individually to Chicago, each under a job contract assigning him or her to a low-wage job and a temporary shelter. Despite this, they formed rich networks and self-help associations. Displaced from their first settlements, PR's moved to Wicker Park, where they ran into the same police harassment, media stereotypes, and landlord abuse they had experienced in their previous settlements."
Image: A blue background image with black illustrations of four people with buildings as heads with the following text written at the top, "Displacement has never really stopped. Racialized gentrification pushed PR's west, first out of Wicker Park and out of the city, along with their cultural spaces. Today, the only remaining large PR concentration in Chicago is along and around Division Street in Humboldt Park to the west." An illustration of Tio at the bottom sits next to the text that reads, "There are few spaces left in Wicker Park that carry with them a history of support of unconventional art practices. We'ill visit two of them in the near future."
Carlos Matallana Portrait made by his teenage children Marcela and Samuel Matallana, 2021.

About the artist: Carlos Matallana’s (He/Him) illustration tool is ink/pen on paper, He relies on high contrast and its expressionism qualities. Like an anonymous quiet observant, he prefers to illustrate his characters from the back. He enjoys illustrating full body characters standing or in movement, revealing attitudes and feelings through posture or even clothing instead of facial expressions. He published the graphic novel Brea https://manualofviolence.org/ in 2018. Instagram @tropipunk

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