Filed Under: "Footloose in Mexico"

In 1956, Flora mocked up a proposed illustrated series about his fascination with Mexico. The storyboard, entitled Footloose in Mexico, consisted of vignettes drawn from his residency and travels south of the border. On the back of the heavy artist’s board draft was handwritten, “Sketches for a magazine that never got off the ground.” The identity of the failed periodical is unknown. No descriptive copy was included, just dummy lines for text placement; hence, the…