Multicultural Comics : : From Zap to Blue Beetle / / ed. by Frederick Luis Aldama.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Aldama, Frederick Luis,; Gardner, Jared,; Hamilton, Patrick L.,; Hetrick, Nicholas,; Jesús, Melinda L. de,; Mehta, Suhaan,; Nixon, Elizabeth,; Noori, Margaret,; Peterson, James Braxton,; Rifas, Leonard,; Risner, Jonathan,; Robb, Jenny E.,; Royal, Derek Parker,; Thomas, Evan,; Wanzo, Rebecca,
• HerausgeberIn: Aldama, Frederick Luis,
• TeilnehmendeR: Royal, Derek Parker.
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Cognitive Approaches to Literature and Culture Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (271 p.)

Multicultural Comics: From Zap to Blue Beetle is the first comprehensive look at comic books by and about race and ethnicity. The thirteen essays tease out for the general reader the nuances of how such multicultural comics skillfully combine visual and verbal elements to tell richly compelling stories that gravitate around issues of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality within and outside the U.S. comic book industry. Among the explorations of mainstream and independent comic books are discussions of the work of Adrian Tomine, Grant Morrison, and Jessica Abel as well as Marv Wolfman and Gene Colan's The Tomb of Dracula; Native American Anishinaabe-related comics; mixed-media forms such as Kerry James Marshall's comic-book/community performance; DJ Spooky's visual remix of classic film; the role of comics in India; and race in the early Underground Comix movement. The collection includes a "one-stop shop" for multicultural comic book resources, such as archives, websites, and scholarly books. Each of the essays shows in a systematic, clear, and precise way how multicultural comic books work in and of themselves and also how they are interconnected with a worldwide tradition of comic-book storytelling.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword; Or Reading within the Gutter -- Multicultural Comics Today: A Brief Introduction -- PART I. HISTORY, CONCEPTS, AND METHODS -- 1. Race and Comix -- 2. “ Authentic” Latinas/os and Queer Characters in Mainstream and Alternative Comics -- 3. Native American Narratives from Early Art to Graphic Novels: -- 4. Liminality and Mestiza Consciousness in Lynda Barry’s One Hundred Demons -- 5. Black Nationalism, Bunraku, and Beyond: -- 6. Birth of a Nation: -- 7. Lost in Translation: -- 8. Same Difference: -- PART II. A MULTICULTURAL COMIC BOOK TOOLBOX -- 9. “It ain’t John Shaft”: -- 10. Invisible Art, Invisible Planes, Invisible People -- 11. Wondrous Capers: The Graphic Novel in India -- 12. Chronology, Country, and Consciousness in Wilfred Santiago’s In My Darkest Hour -- 13. Finding Archives/Making Archives: -- WORKS CITED -- CONTRIBUTOR NOTES -- INDEX