How the
West Was Juan Re-Imagining
the U.S./Mexico Border
Steven
W. Bender
Bohemia in
Southern California
Edited
by Jay Ruby with essays by Jessica
Holada, Mark Thompson,
Daniel Hurewitz, Genie Guerard,
Naima Prevots, Richard Hertz,
Katherine Stewart, Pablo Capra,
Kristin Lawler, William Mohr,
Rachel Rubin, Jay Ruby, and Harry
Polkinhorn
In this timely and
transformative collection of
interviews, Aldama brings to
life the stories, achievements,
and creative process of 29
Latino-and Latina!-comic book
artists. Jettisoned to new
heights of exploration, this
vertiginous journey opens us to
a world of breathtaking
visual-verbal creativity and the
embrace of a resplendently
diverse and eager community of
readers. Latino comic book
storytelling, its characters,
and wondrous world-makings
vitally transform, renew, and
replenish the comic's field.
They are the revolution-and
Aldama's at the frontlines to
capture it all.
Latinx Comic Book
Storytelling:
An
Odyssey by Interview edited
by Frederick Luis Aldama
Prologue
by Ricardo Padilla
Foreword by Héctor
Fernández L’Hoeste
Afterword by
Christopher González
Paperback:
270 pages
Publisher: Hyperbole
Books, an imprint
of SDSU Press; 1st
edition (2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1938537920
ISBN-13:
978-1938537929
retail: $24.95
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Historical/Editorial info
The backstory on the one and
only San Diego State
University press; includes
contact/submissions info for
prospective authors.
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