Coming soon: an extensive volume on #LatinAmerican #Comics in the 21st century, org. and carefully edited by my brilliant colleagues #LauraCristinaFernández, @snark84 and #PabloTurnes.
It explores the political, economic + cultural landscape of 21st-century Latin America through comics + their resurgence in recent decades spurred by the ubiquity of the Internet and reminiscent of the complex political experiences + realities of the region.
Burning Down the House: Latin American Comics in the 21st Century.
Burning Down the House explores the political, economic and cultural landscape of 21st-century Latin America through comics. It examines works from Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Uruguay, Perú, Colombia, México and Spain, and the resurgence of comics in recent decades spurred by the ubiquity of the Internet and reminiscent of the complex political experiences and realities of the region. The volume analyses experimentations in themes and formats and how Latin American comics have become d