Multicultural Comics: From Zap to Blue Beetle (Cognitive Approaches to Literature and Culture)

Frederick Luis Aldama (Editor) and Derek Parker Royal (Foreword)

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Multicultural 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...

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  • ISBN10 0292739532
  • ISBN13 9780292739536
  • Publish Date 15 September 2010 (first published 1 September 2010)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint University of Texas Press
  • Format eBook
  • Language English