“From this famous hippodrome on the racetrack, not even a single journalist is missing. Death is inexorable and doesn't even respect those that you see here on bicycle” - broadside showing showing calaveras bicycling, with identifying labels, 'Voz de México,' 'Patria,' 'Universal,' 'Tiempo,' 'Partido Liberal,' 'Gil Blas,' names of popular newspapers, and 'Siglo XIX,' and 'Siglo XX.' They trample additional calaveras, labeled 'Razalatin' and 'Quijote.' (ca.1898-1902) -

Featured on PDR in the collection The Calaveras of José Guadalupe Posada

José Guadalupe Posada (1851–1913) was a Mexican illustrator known for his satirical and politically acute calaveras. Deriving from the Spanish word for 'skulls', these calaveras were illustrations featuring skeletons which would, after Posada's death, become closely associated with the mexican holiday Día de los Muertos, the Day of the Dead. Most of these calaveras were published by the press of Antonio Vanegas Arroyo which produced inexpensive literature for the lower classes, including thousands of satirical broadsides which Posada illustrated. Through this focus on mortality Vanegas Arroyo and Posada satirised many poignant issues of the day, in particular the details of bourgeois life and the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz. On January 20th 1913, 3 years after the start of the Mexican Revolution, José Guadalupe Posada died…