Project MUSE®: Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society - Latest Articles
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Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society.daily12026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 1 (2017) through current issueLatest Articles: Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies SocietyTWOProject MUSE®Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society2473-52052473-5191Latest articles in Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society. Feed provided by Project MUSE®Introduction to Inked Latinidades: Latinx/e Voices and Narrativas en Viñetas
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976992
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Composite image from Baldo, by Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos.To begin any special issue of Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society—and especially Inked Latinidades: Latinx/e Voices and Narrativas en Viñetas, which is devoted to Latinx/e comics—it is fitting to start with a visual form that helped shaped early public discourse about Latin American identity in the United States before it was recognized as Latinx/e: the editorial cartoon. As a form of visual commentary, editorial cartoons combine satire, hyperbole, humor, caricature, and symbolism to critique political events, social issues, and public figures. Known also as political cartoons, they distill complex ideas into concise, accessible forms
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/701/image/coversmallIntroduction to Inked Latinidades: Latinx/e Voices and Narrativas en Viñetas2025-12-12text/htmlen-USIntroduction to Inked Latinidades: Latinx/e Voices and Narrativas en Viñetas2025-12-122025TWOProject MUSE®653502026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002025-12-12Latinx Comics: Past, Present, and Future
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976993
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/701/image/coversmallLatinx Comics: Past, Present, and Future2025-12-12text/htmlen-USLatinx Comics: Past, Present, and Future2025-12-122025TWOProject MUSE®423742026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002025-12-12Drawn from Clay: Mexican Cerámica, Material Culture, and Bilingual Visual Modernism in Gus Arriola's Gordo
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976994
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Gus Arriola's Gordo, featuring Gordo, his nephew, Pepito, and several of their animal companions. Large decal from the exhibition Depicting Mexico and Modernism: Gordo by/de Gus Arriola, Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, The Ohio State University Libraries (2023–24). Photo: John Landry, Top5ive Photography.Since the early twentieth century, modernist artists and writers across Europe and the Americas have frequently turned to folk traditions and material cultures as sources of aesthetic and conceptual renewal. From Pablo Picasso's Head of a Woman (Fernande) (1909), an early Cubist sculpture drawing on ancient Iberian forms and Spanish folk carving, to Diego Rivera's History of Mexico (1929–35), a monumental
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/701/image/coversmallDrawn from Clay: Mexican Cerámica, Material Culture, and Bilingual Visual Modernism in Gus Arriola's Gordo2025-12-12text/htmlen-USDrawn from Clay: Mexican Cerámica, Material Culture, and Bilingual Visual Modernism in Gus Arriola's Gordo2025-12-122025TWOProject MUSE®1163122026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002025-12-12Latinx Identity Uprooted: Tracing Destierro in the Comic Biography Who Is Ana Mendieta?
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976995
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Book cover of Who Is Ana Mendieta? (2011), written by Christine Red-fern and illustrated by Caro Caron.Mendieta's traces today are to be found not in the art institutions … but on the margins, in the alternative spaces where her memory has been passed down.Comics, once an unconventional form for the biography genre, have steadily gained recognition as a legitimate source for profiling both prominent and lesser-known public figures. Yet, where are the comic biographies of Latinx individuals? One notable example is Who Is Ana Mendieta? (2011), in which Christine Redfern and Caro Caron commemorate the life and art of Cuban American artist Ana Mendieta.3 In the 1970s and 1980s, Mendieta used her body, ephemera, twigs
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/701/image/coversmallLatinx Identity Uprooted: Tracing Destierro in the Comic Biography Who Is Ana Mendieta?2025-12-12text/htmlen-USLatinx Identity Uprooted: Tracing Destierro in the Comic Biography Who Is Ana Mendieta?2025-12-122025TWOProject MUSE®1104712026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002025-12-12Crossing Borders, Shifting Narratives: Speculative Agency in Julio Anta's Migration Graphic Novels
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976996
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Mateo, the young protagonist from Julio Anta's Frontera.In some dreams I'm Superman, or I'm Goku, flying over fields, rivers, over El Salvador, over all the countries, over the people, towns, all the way to California, to my parents.The past few decades have seen unprecedented levels of migrant crossings from Latin America and the Caribbean along the US southern border.2 This phenomenon has resulted in an increased politicization of immigration in the United States as well as the weaponization—both material and discursive—of the Mexico-US border. Alongside this, a growing number of literary works and narrative media representing this reality have also proliferated in both Latin America and the United States
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/701/image/coversmallCrossing Borders, Shifting Narratives: Speculative Agency in Julio Anta's Migration Graphic Novels2025-12-12text/htmlen-USCrossing Borders, Shifting Narratives: Speculative Agency in Julio Anta's Migration Graphic Novels2025-12-122025TWOProject MUSE®933282026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002025-12-12Class and National Imaginaries in Call Me Iggy: Searching for a Place in US Culture
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976997
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Cover of Call Me Iggy.On november 8, 2016, Republican Donald J. Trump won 306 electoral votes to Democrat Hillary Clinton's 232, despite her securing nearly 2.9 million more popular votes. Call Me Iggy (CMI), a graphic novel by Colombian American Jorge Aguirre and Puerto Rican Rafael Rosado, examines the impact of this election on Latin American immigrants and their descendants.1 Published by First Second Books in 2023, it explores identity, belonging, and political engagement post-election, highlighting the risk of immigrants internalizing an underdog mentality due to systemic prejudice.The novel follows Ignacio "Iggy" Garcia, a Colombian American teen navigating high school in Columbus, Ohio—a setting informed by
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/701/image/coversmallClass and National Imaginaries in Call Me Iggy: Searching for a Place in US Culture2025-12-12text/htmlen-USClass and National Imaginaries in Call Me Iggy: Searching for a Place in US Culture2025-12-122025TWOProject MUSE®777312026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002025-12-12Notable Latinx/e Comics Collections in the United States
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976998
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Cover of Comic Books, Special Collections, and the Academic Library, edited by Brian Flota and Kate Morris (Association of College and Research Libraries, 2023).Academic libraries have played a key role in the growth of comics studies in the twenty-first century. In order to meet the needs of faculty, students, and independent scholars, an increasing number of libraries have started to collect comic books, graphic novels, and other comics-related materials, including work by Latinx-/e creators and publishers.For beginning researchers, it's important to determine if comics materials are part of the general circulating collection of the library or part of a special collection, which might also be called a rare books
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/701/image/coversmallNotable Latinx/e Comics Collections in the United States2025-12-12text/htmlen-USNotable Latinx/e Comics Collections in the United States2025-12-122025TWOProject MUSE®370492026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002025-12-122025 Comics Studies Society Prizes
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976999
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Every year, the Comics Studies Society recognizes outstanding contributions to the study of comic art with seven annual prizes. Here are this year's winners!Winner: Marissa A. Zerangue, "'So you thought you would exploit another person's tragedy': Mystery, Gender, and Race in Mat Johnson's Incognegro: A Graphic Mystery"Honorable Mention: Ishita Sehgal, "Memory, Colors and Gutters: Reading Graphic Memoirs"Winner: Felipe Rodolfo Hendriksen, "Batman patiens: Patience in Batman: Year One (1987)" (The Vault of Culture, https://www.vaultofculture.com/vault/feature/hendriksen/batmanpatiens)Honorable Mention: Asher Elbein, "The Judgment of Magneto" (Defector, https://defector.com/the-judgment-of-magneto)Honorable Mention:
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/701/image/coversmall2025 Comics Studies Society Prizes2025-12-12text/htmlen-US2025 Comics Studies Society Prizes2025-12-122025TWOProject MUSE®61882026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002025-12-12