EXTRACTS: Illustrators issue 18 © 2017 The Book Palace (96 PAGES in Full edition)

39 Madero’s political party being known as the 'anti-re-electionists'). This event was reported via telegraphic messages to Cabral so that he would illustrate the article. The ensuing ten drawings were the first known images of the Mexican revolution. When the revolution did break out, Cabral’s drawings seemed to adopt a rather anti-Madero stance. When in 1911 Madero did get elected President, many of his followers felt that he had abandoned his political ideals and the army, which he had railed against, remained as a power-broker. Cabral participated in some of the anti-Madero magazines such as El Ahuizote and Multicolour , not for their political ideas, but because he saw in them a way to show his drawings to a larger audience. Although, unsurprisingly, many of the drawings inside depicted President Madero in an irreverent manner— the butt of the jokes of his one-time followers. Maybe due to his caricatures criticizing the Madero government, Cabral was given a scholarship to study in Paris—a way for Madero to 'silence' the popular caricaturist and get him out of Mexico. When in Paris, Cabral discovered the many artistic facets the City of Lights had to offer, not only in the art world, but with dance (he loved the LEFT: 'Hoy' ('Today'), pen and ink, 1911. President Madero turning his back to all the problems in Mexico, from the anti-Madero magazine Multicolour . ABOVE RIGHT: Another of the drawings from the Mexican revolution. BELOW: This is how Cabral saw Madero once he became president of Mexico; “his coat is too large…but that’s the fashion” (according to the caption under the picture).