Love and Rockets by
Acollection of Love and Rockets tales finds Penny Century acquiring super-powers at a terrible personal cost and rampaging through the galaxy pursued by a motley group of superheroes led by Maggie's girlfriend Angel.
New Tales of Old Palomar by
Four interconnected stories about the small Central American town of Palomar, where the supernatural is as commonplace--and sometimes indistinguishable from--reality.
Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White by
A Memoir in Black and White is an arresting and moving personal story about childhood, race, and identity in the American South, rendered in stunning illustrations by the author, Lila Quintero Weaver.
Deadly Class The Snake Pit by
When homeless orphan Marcus Lopez was asked to join a shadowy school specializing in training the next generation of the world's deadliest assassins, he figured he had nothing left to lose. He was wrong.
Photographic: the Life of Graciela Iturbide by
Born in Mexico City in 1942, Graciela Iturbide wants to be a writer, but her conservative family has a different idea. Although she initially follows their wishes, she soon grows restless. After tragedy strikes, she turns to photography to better understand the world.
The Love Bunglers by
The suppression of family history and the cumulative effects of these secrets are the initial threads that tie together this masterful graphic novel
Los Gachos y el Evenflo by
La contracultura gacha / José Agustín -- Los Gachos y el Evenflo -- Los Gachos en la literatura universal / Armando Vega-Gil.
Angelitos by
A fictional retelling drawing on autobiographical elements to tell the real life story of Alejandro García Durán de Lara, popularly known as Padre Chinchachoma.
Fantomas Versus the Multinational Vampires by
First published in Spanish in 1975 and previously untranslated, Fantomas versus the Multinational Vampires is Julio Cortázar's genre-jumping mash-up of his participation in the Second Russell Tribunal on human rights abuses in Latin America and his cameo appearance in issue number 201 of the Mexican comic book series Fantomas: The Elegant Menace.
The Eternonaut by
Juan Salvo, the inimitable protagonist, along with his friend Professor Favalli and the tenacious metal-worker Franco, face what appears to be a nuclear accident, but quickly turns out to be something much bigger than they had imagined. Cold War tensions, aliens of all sizes, space and time travel this one has it all.
Comics and Memory in Latin America by
Latin American comics and graphic novels have a unique history of addressing controversial political, cultural, and social issues. This volume presents new perspectives on how comics on and from Latin America both view and express memory formation on major historical events and processes. The contributors, from a variety of disciplines including literary theory, cultural studies, and history, explore topics including national identity construction, narratives of resistance to colonialism and imperialism, the construction of revolutionary traditions, and the legacies of authoritarianism and political violence.
Science Fiction and Digital Technologies in Argentine and Brazilian Culture by
Espiritismo digital in cyberfiction from Brazil -- Race and the digital body in cyberfiction from Brazil -- Cruz diablo: cyberspace as frontier -- Distributed agency in Marcelo Cohen's Casa de ottro -- Memory and affective technologies in the Argentine comic book series Cybersix -- Prosthetic memory and the disruption of affective control in the graphic fiction of Lourenço Mutarelli.
Representing Multiculturalism in Comics and Graphic Novels by
This book presents a wide ranging survey of the ways in which comics have dealt with the diversity of creators and characters and the (lack of) visibility for characters who don't conform to particular cultural stereotypes.
Not Just for Children: the Mexican Comic Book in the Late 1960s and 1970s by 
The Hernandez Brothers : Love, Rockets, and Alternative Comics by
This study offers a critical examination of the work of Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez, Mexican-American brothers whose graphic novels are highly influential. The Hernandez brothers started in the alt-comics scene, where their ‘Love and Rockets'series quickly gained prominence. They have since published in more mainstream venues but have maintained an outsider status based on their own background and the content of their work.
Stavans Unbound: The Critic Between Two Canons by
Twenty-five years ago, Ilan Stavans published his first book, Imagining Columbus: The Literary Voyage (1993). Since then, Stavans has become a polarizing figure, dismissed and praised in equal measure, a commanding if contested intellectual whose work as a cultural critic has been influential in the fields of Latino and Jewish studies, politics, immigration, religion, language, and identity.
Escritura e Imagen en Hispanoamérica : de la Crónica Ilustrada al Cómic by
La relación entre la escritura y la imagen se ha dado de forma ininterrumpida en Hispanoamérica desde la época virreinal, tanto en el contexto de las primeras crónicas ilustradas y la pintura o emblemática colonial como en creaciones mucho más recientes, vinculadas a un proceso de formación de identidad y un trabajo de memoria —desde las tablas de Sarhua hasta el manga peruano— o en la poesía visual del siglo XX.
Mort Cinder by
This episodic graphic novel follows the journey of Mort Cinder, a man who rises from the grave each time he is killed. His travels through time, space and the darkest corners of humanity are shown from the point of view of Ezra Winston, an antiquarian who becomes Mort's companion. Alberto Breccia's experimental chiaroscuro captures the expressive faces of hardened prisoners, shell-shocked soldiers, and grotesque grave robbers; his atmospheric stories take the reader to eerie cemeteries, ancient Babylonian tombs, and the treacherous waters of the Atlantic.
American Vampire Omnibus by
hronicling the history of a new breed of vampire, American Vampire is a fresh look at an old monster, a generational epic showcasing the bloodlust that lay hidden beneath America's most distinctive eras. Like most good stories, it all starts with a question: What if vampires, like all species, evolved? What if, occasionally across generations, a vampire bites someone and creates a new kind of creature--a vampire that takes its strengths and weaknesses--not just from its predecessors, but its environment.
