"Pancho Villa toma Zacatecas" by Paco Ignacio Taibo II and Eko is a Mexican graphic novel from 2013 about one of the key battles of the Mexican revolution. In this article, it is analyzed as an example of uses of history in graphic novels and comics. Within a theoretical and methodological framework of sensemaking, narrative and performativity, the analysis shows how "Pancho Villa toma Zacatecas" draws on and combines references to a range of visual genres and traditions--social and political caricature from the early 1900s, charro comics from the mid-century Golden Age of comics, and politically explicit comics from the 1960s/1970s--in its representation of the Mexican revolution as an ambiguous and multifaceted event, inviting the reader to reflect on the revolution's role in present day Mexico.