¡Muy Pop!: Conversations on Latino Popular Culture

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Zeta (2008), Jesús Barraza’s poster of Oscar “Zeta” Acosta. (Art courtesy of the artist.) Velvet poster of Jesus. (Photograph courtesy of Frederick Luis Aldama.) Día de los Muertos altar. (Photograph courtesy of Frederick Luis Aldama.) Stuffed doll of Speedy Gonzalez. (Photograph courtesy of Frederick Luis Aldama.) The origin of the superhero Citlali (2009). (Deborah K. Vasquez.) René “Pepo” Ríos’s Condorito. William Nericcio’s “Mextasy El Santo” (2012). (Art courtesy of the artist.) Ilan Stavans and Steve Sheinkin’s El Iluminado (2012). Self-reflexive moment depicting Jaime Hernandez as the “puppet master” in Los Bros Hernandez’s Love and Rockets Book 15 (1997). Gilbert Hernandez’s onearmed Casmira in Palomar: The Heartbreak Soup Stories (2003). The stuttering character Tartamudo collecting the saliva of the ox in Rhode Montijo’s Tartamudo. The character Shé rallying the people in Robert Rodríguez’s film Machete (2010). Virgen de Guadalupe statue. (Photograph courtesy of Frederick Luis Aldama.) Virgen de Guadalupe del Mar. (Photograph courtesy of Frederick Luis Aldama.) Indra Leyva’s Kahlo (2012). (Art courtesy of the artist.) Ester Hernández’s serigraphy César Chávez (1993). (Art courtesy of the artist.) Frederick Luis Aldama, El Enmascarado. (Photograph courtesy of Frederick Luis Aldama.) Ilan Stavans, Superhero. (Photograph courtesy of Ilan Stavans.) Ilan Stavans as the comic-book protagonist in Ilan Stavans and Steve Sheinkin’s El Iluminado (2012). ...