Auca (cartoon)
An auca () is a genre of a story in pictures developed mainly in Catalonia. Description The auca was present in some other parts of Spain, even though it was most popular in Catalonia. It has a structure somewhat similar to comics, but has more rigid. The auca has a number of images that can be evenly divided by 4 (usually 48), all images are of the same size, all fit on one page, and there is a small piece of text, called rodolí (, plural rodolins) - underneath every image, usually in the Catalan language and since the 19th century also rhymed. History The auca began as a card game played for money. The cards were possibly also used for divination, judging by the images that initially appeared on them: the Moon, the Sun, stars and animals, among them a goose, which gave its name to the game. (Auca means "goose" in the north-western dialects of Catalan; it is oca in modern standard Catalan.) The earliest preserved auca was created by Pere Abadal in 1670 in Moià. The game was forbidden throughout the 17th and 18th centuries and gradually the auca developed into an art form in which all