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Welcome to the home of AMATL COMIX ~ the graphic novel publishing
imprint of San Diego State University Press!
OUR LATEST ISSUE
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SNAPSHOTS: TEACHING
LOS BROS HERNANDEZ
edited by William Nericcio & Frederick Aldama
Amatl Comix, a San Diego State University Press Imprint
date: September 16, 2025
Language: English
Print length: 275 pages
ISBN-10: 1938537572
ISBN-13: 978-1938537578
Dimensions: 10 x 7 x 1 inches
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Page spreads from the new book!
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The New ALL COMIX, ALL
GRAPHIC NARRATIVE SPECIAL EDITION OF
pacREV 2023
Edited by Giovan Michael
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over 40 years, the one and only pacificREVIEW: A West Coast
Arts Review Annual has published
emerging and established writers of poetry, fiction,
and prose. Now, for the first time in the storied
life of this small yet mighty publication, our
ever-evolving journal has turned its eye to the
world of graphic narrative, highlighting over 30
artists telling moving and important stories through
comics, collage, graphic poetry, and more. This
beautiful edition is an explosion of color, emotion,
art, and political dissent. It is loud, irreverent,
and patiently waiting to be experienced by you.
Amatl Comix is so high on this special issue that in
an unprecedented collaboration, pacREV and Amatl
Comix have colluded to make this journal issue a
regular book in our growing catalog of texts. Our
thanks to Gio Michael for making this co-op project
a realityContributors to Amatl Comix #6 include Norma Sadler, Adele Gaburo, Helena Westera, Rema Shbaita, Abigail Bitter, Marie Sosa, Patrick McEvoy, Mariana Tapia, Breanna “Nana” Rohde, Paola Ramirez, Emily Teaze,, Ashley Lavisesdeh, Mariana Tapia, Neil Kendricks, Annie Rue, Adele Gaburo, Dylan Wells, Robert Lang, Bradley Medina, Cassandra Jordan, Andrew Smith, Christopher Reynoso, Rafael Flores, Alexa Ariizumi, Sinai Wright, Tatiana Bohorquez, Lucky Dasari, Amy Burton, Kyra Williams, Paloma Burner, Yao Xiao, Jacquelin Molina Guillen, Kirstin Curtis, Annie Rue, Nayeli Nova Fernandez, and Iris Quiroga.
Some random snapshots from this gorgeous, full color, comix collection:
THE COMPLEAT MOSCOW CALLING
by José Alaniz!
order now!
The Compleat Moscow Calling
José Alaniz
Paperback – February 24, 2023
AMATLCOMIX 2023
“Both wonderful and
wonderfully demented. Also makes me
strangely nostalgic.”
Gary
Shteyngart, author of The Russian
Debutante's Handbook and Absurdistan
Now, from Amatl Comix!
THE COMPLEAT MOSCOW CALLING, a lost 90s epic
of expat life in Russia! Innocent abroad
Pepe Pérez finds himself in a vibrant
post-Soviet Moscow of colorful
personalities, extreme contrasts, and a
“mafiya” boss after his head. Worst of all,
there's no Mexican food! José Alaniz's
“Moscow Calling,” the first ongoing American
comic strip in Russia, appeared in the
English-language newspaper “The Moscow
Tribune” not long after the wall fell. This
collection gathers and concludes the strip
along with additional material, including
the unfinished sequel “Cassie's Turn” and
the novella “Moscow 93.” Step back into a
pre-Putin Russia of startling beauty and
danger!
Advance Notices!
"The
Compleat Moscow Calling makes for quite the
culture shock with its tale of a
Mexican-American's adventures in pre- Putin
Russia. Remarkable, multilingual- a sequential
arts achievement!"
Hector Rodriguez, creator
of El Peso Hero
"Treat yourself to José
Alaniz's idiosyncratic comics created in
Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union.
With a journalist's eye and a cartoonist's
wit, he spins grand tales that interweave a
talking bat and a motorcycle-riding Baba Yaga
amongst his many other characters. Taking
inspiration from such divergent sources as
Dostoevsky, The Clash and Sal Buscema, Alaniz
adroitly mixes fact and fantasy to serve up an
entertaining visual Molotov cocktail. Heed the
call!"
Javier Hernandez, creator
of the El Muerto graphic novel series
"As scrappily
independent as the newspaper in which they
first appeared, the strips in José Alaniz's
The Compleat Moscow Calling echo with a
visual language all their own: Nadsat by way
of South Texas. They capture an ex-pat
glasnostalgia for a far-from- innocent
Russia that is long, long gone."
Álvaro
Rodriguez, Machete
Black Representation in
the World of Animation
"While
mesmerized by ink-lined cells shaking to their own
rhythm and beat, Darius Gainer has written a long
overdue text chronicling an obscure field that is,
as all aspects of Black history are, joyously
and quintessentially
American."Tim Fielder author of INFINITUM: An Afrofuturist Tale
“Gainer's
work is painfully necessary and brilliantly
articulated. With the proliferation of animated
images representing people of color, a text of this
nature is vital and Gainer rises to the task.”John Jennings Professor of Media & Cultural Studies at UC Riverside & Eisner Award Winning Genius!
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by Darius S. Gainer!
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Our 2nd title, Amatl Comix #2, a re-issue of our Hyperbole Books title!
Latinx Comic Book Storytelling: Odyssey by Interview by Frederick Luis Aldama
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Read the Foreword to THE PHANTOM ZONE by Álvaro Rodriguez,
co-screenwriter with Robert Rodriguez, of Machete--click to enlarge!
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Congratulations to the Ohio State University Press on their
LATINOGRAPHIX Publishing adventure--follow their
graphic narrative-fueled evolution here:
https://ohiostatepress.org/books/series/latinographix.html
| The Birth of Amatl
Comix! Facsimile Pages from Amatl Comix #1   |
Amatl Comix Masthead
Editorial Board
William "Memo" Nericcio
San Diego State University
memo AT sdsu DOT edu
Publisher and Editor
Frederick Luis Aldama
The Ohio State University
aldama.1 AT osu DOT edu
Editor
Sam Cannon
Louisiana State University, Shreveport
samuel DOT cannon AT lsus DOT edu
International Editor (Latin America)
Theresa Rojas
Professor, Modesto Junior College;
Director, Latinx Comic Arts Festival
rohast AT yosemite DOT edu
Katlin Sweeney
Assistant Professor of Cinema and
Digital Media, UC Davis
kmsweeney AT ucdavis DOT edu
More to Come!
Submissions:
Have a comic or graphic novel to submit
for our consideration? Send your best comic,
or chapter or two, along with a letter of introduction, to:
Amatlcomix
William Nericcio, Publisher
c/o SDSU PRESS
MC 6020 / AL 282
SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY
San Diego, Califas 92182-6020
619.594.1524*
* ... much better to email the publisher than call!
bill nericcio bnericci@sdsu.edu or any member of
our editorial board listed above!
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About the backsplash -- borrowed off the cool folks at Heritage Auctions! Click to enlarge!
"Barry Grossman, Betty and Veronica #228 Near-Complete Issue Production Color Guides Group of 21 (Archie, 2007). Included are the color guides for all pages from the four stories from this issue. These printer's reference color guides were produced by photocopying the linework onto 8.5" x 11" paper and coloring with watercolors. There are handwritten color call-out notations on the pages. The very first page is signed by Grossman. In Very Good condition."