Multicultural Comics: From Zap To Blue Beetle (cognitive Approaches To Literature And Culture Series)

Cultural Studies: Multicultural Studies, Media Studies, Graphic Novels More by Frederick Luis Aldama Cognitive Approaches to Literature and Culture Series Frederick Luis Aldama, Arturo J. Aldama, and Patrick Colm Hogan, Editors ISBN 978-0-292-72157-9, hardcover A User’s Guide to Postcolonial and Latino Borderland Fiction Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture ISBN 978-0-292-71968-2, hardcover Your Brain on Latino Comics From Gus Arriola to Los Bros Hernandez Cognitive Approaches to Literature and Culture Series Frederick Luis Aldama, Arturo J. Aldama, and Patrick Colm Hogan, Editors ISBN 978-0-292-71973-6, paperback Why the Humanities Matter A Commonsense Approach ISBN 978-0-292-71798-5, hardcover Spilling the Beans in Chicanolandia Conversations with Writers and Artists ISBN 978-0-292-71312-3, paperback Brown on Brown Chicano/a Representations of Gender, Sexuality, and Ethnicity ISBN 978-0-292-70940-9, paperback Postethnic Narrative Criticism Magicorealism in Oscar “Zeta” Acosta, Ana Castillo, Julie Dash, Hanif Kureishi, and Salman Rushdie ISBN 978-0-292-70516-6, hardcover M ulticultural 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. is Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor of English at the Ohio State University. He is the author and editor of eleven books, including Postethnic Narrative Criticism; the MLA-award-winning Dancing with Ghosts: A Critical Biogra