Description
Book SynopsisCartoons and comics have played important roles in the political and social processes of Latin America for more than a century. This book coalesces, for the first time in one volume, aspects of comic art of the entire region, capturing historical backgrounds, documenting trends, problems and situations of comic art in contemporary settings, and profiling cartoonists, comics characters, titles and genres. Ten countries of Central and South America and Spanish Caribbean are dealt with in separate chapters. Comic art forms/media that are subjects of chapters are animation, caricature, comic books, comic strips, humor magazines, and political cartoons. Approaches include historical and character analyses. Authors of chapters represent some of the most knowledgeable individuals in Latin American comic art.
Table of ContentsLatin American Comic Art: An Overview, John A. Lent. Argentine Comics: A History, Andres Accorsi. Argentine Comics Today: A Foreigner's Perspective, Jeff Williams. Oesterheld, the Literacy Voice of Argentine Comics, Ana Merino. ""Inodoro Pereyra,"" a ""Gaucho"" in the Pampa of Paper and Ink, Ana Merino. Children's Comics in Brazil: From Chiquinho and Monica, a Difficult Journey, Waldomiro C.S. Vergueiro. Brazilian Adult Comics: The Age of Market, Nadilson Manoel da Silva. Brazilian Superheroes in Search of Their Own Identities, Waldomiro C.S. Vergueiro. Brazilian Pornographic Comics: Eroticism in the Work of Carlos Zefiro, Waldomiro C.S. Vergueiro. The Comic Book in a ""Revolutionary Process"": Chile in 1973, David Kunzle. Chile's La Ferme verus ITT, David Kunzle, Chile's Pepo, Much More Than a Condorito, Jorge Montealegre Iturra. Vignette: Comic Art in Columbia: A Short Historical Journey, Perucho Mejia G. Cuban. Political, Social Commentary Cartoons, John A. Lent. Parallel Lives: A History of Comics and Animated Cartoons in Cuba, Dario Mogno. Always the Other One: Salomon, Caridad Blanco de la Cruz. Mexican Popular Graphic Narrative and Comics, a History, Armando Bartra and Gisela Gil-Egui. Roger Sanchez's ""Humor Erotico"" and the Semana Comica: A Sexual Revolution in Sandinista Nicaragua? David Kunzle, Peruvian Comics: The Early Years, Mario Lucionl. Conversations with Three Peruvian Cartoonists, John A. Lent and Teresa Archambeault. Cartooning in Uruguay, a Short History, Daniel Puch. (Mis)fortune in a High Barren Plain: A Personal View of Comics in Uruguay, Carols M. Federici. Venezuela's Alonso and the Art of Leaving it All to Art, Gisela Gil-Egui. Author Index. Subject Index.
