Graphic Borders : : Latino Comic Books Past, Present, and Future / / ed. by Christopher González, Frederick Luis Aldama.

• MitwirkendeR: Aldama, Frederick Luis,; Espinosa, Frank,; Espinoza, Mauricio,; Fernández L’Hoeste, Héctor,; Frank, Kathryn M.,; Gil-Gómez, Ellen M.,; González, Christopher,; Haddad, Maya,; Hamilton, Patrick L.,; Millán, Isabel,; Montes, Brian,; Nama, Adilifu,; Poblete, Juan,; Rodríguez, Richard T.,; Stavans, Ilan,
• HerausgeberIn: Aldama, Frederick Luis,; González, Christopher,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

From the influential work of Los Bros Hernandez in Love & Rockets, to comic strips and political cartoons, to traditional superheroes made nontraditional by means of racial and sexual identity (e.g., Miles Morales/Spider-Man), comics have become a vibrant medium to express Latino identity and culture. Indeed, Latino fiction and nonfiction narratives are rapidly proliferating in graphic media as diverse and varied in form and content as is the whole of Latino culture today. Graphic Borders presents the most thorough exploration of comics by and about Latinos currently available. Thirteen essays and one interview by eminent and rising scholars of comics bring to life this exciting graphic genre that conveys the distinctive and wide-ranging experiences of Latinos in the United States. The contributors’ exhilarating excavations delve into the following areas: comics created by Latinos that push the boundaries of generic conventions; Latino comic book author-artists who complicate issues of race and gender through their careful reconfigurations of the body; comic strips; Latino superheroes in mainstream comics; and the complex ways that Latino superheroes are created and consumed within larger popular cultural trends. Taken as a whole, the book unveils the resplendent riches of comics by and about Latinos and proves that there are no limits to the ways in which Latinos can be represented and imagined in the world of comics.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Taking Back Control of Our Story Space: A Foreword -- Latino Comic Books Past, Present, and Future—A Primer -- Part I. Alternativas -- One. Out of Sequence: Time and Meaning in Los Bros Hernandez -- Two. Recreative Graphic Novel Acts in Gilbert Hernandez’s Twenty-First- Century Neo-Noirs -- Three. Three Decades with Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez: An Odyssey by Interview -- Part II . Cuerpo Comics -- Four. Biographic Challenges: Wilfred Santiago’s 21: The Story of Roberto Clemente -- Five. Wrestling with Comic Genres and Genders: Luchadores as Signifiers in Sonambulo and Locas -- Part III. Tortilla Strips -- Six. Latino Identity and the Market: Making Sense of Cantú and Castellanos’s Baldo -- Seven. The Archeology of the Post-social in the Comics of Lalo Alcaraz: La Cucaracha and Migra Mouse: Political Cartoons on Immigration -- Eight. My Debt to Rius -- Part IV. A Bird, a Plane . . . Straight and Queer Super-Lats -- Nine. The Alien Is Here to Stay: Otherness, Anti-Assimilation, and Empowerment in Latino/a Superhero Comics -- Ten. Anya Sofía (Araña) Corazón: The Inner Webbings and Mexi-Ricanization of Spider-Girl -- Eleven. Revealing Secret Identities: Gay Latino Superheroes and the Necessity of Disclosure -- Part V. Multiverses, Admixtures, and More -- Twelve. Everybody Wants to Rule the Multiverse: Latino Spider-Men in Marvel’s Media Empire -- Thirteen. Mapping the Blatino Badlands and Borderlands of American Pop Culture -- Fourteen. The Paradox of Miles Morales: Social Gatekeeping and the Browning of America’s Spider-Man -- Works Cited -- Contributor Notes -- Index