Your Brain on Latino Comics: From Gus Arriola to Los Bros Hernandez

Contents

Contents Part I: An Overview of Latino Comics . Introduction  . So Many Approaches, So Little . . .  . Concerned Comics  . The Good, Bad, and . . . Beautiful  . Mainstreamed Compadres  . Slipstreamed Latinos  . Latinos Strike Back  . Spandexed Latinas, Where Art Thou?  . More Superheroes Revealed  . Spandex Alternatives  . All That Is White Turns Noir  . Other à la Modes  . Strips with New Stripes  Part II: Brains A-sizzle on Latino Comics . Introduction  . Comic, Tragic, Epic—Redux  . Proof’s in the Pudding  . Getting Emotional  . Abracadabra . . . the Mind-Reading Trick  . Double Trouble: The Visual and Verbal Narrator  . Latinos Conjured Up  . Rereading Race and Ethnicity  . It’s a Burrito Wrap  Part III: Conversations with the Creators David Alvarez  Gus Arriola  Hector Cantú  Carlos Castellanos  Richard Dominguez  Frank Espinosa  Roberta Gregory  Gilbert Hernandez of Los Bros Hernandez  Jaime Hernandez of Los Bros Hernandez  Javier Hernandez  Jonathan and Joshua Luna of The Luna Brothers  Laura Molina  Rhode Montijo  Rafael Navarro  Anthony Oropeza  Peter Ramirez  Fernando Rodriguez  Bobby Rubio  Carlos Saldaña  Wilfred Santiago  Ivan Velez Jr.  notes  bibliography  index  your brain on latino comics viii Your Brain on Latino Comics ...