Graphic Borders: Latino Comic Books Past, Present, and Future

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1477309152
• ISBN13: 9781477309155
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.4"