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 ...
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Auca or AUCA may refer to : * Auca (titular diocese), the former Catholic bishopric of (Villafranca Montes de) Oca in Spain, now a Latin titular see * A pejorative name for the native Huaorani people in Ecuador ** Operation Auca, an endeavor to evangelize the Huaorani tribe * Auca (genus), ''Auca'' (genus), a genus of butterflies in the subfamily Satyrinae of the family Nymphalidae * Auca (cartoon), a Catalan genre of story in pictures * Sociedad Deportiva Aucas, a football club from Quito, Ecuador ; AUCA as an acronym : * Adventist University of Central Africa * American University of Central Asia {{disambig ...
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