[Commlist] Open access book: Comics Beyond the Page in Latin America (UCL Press)

UCL Press is delighted to announce an open access book that is likely to 
be of interest to list subscribers: ‘/Comics Beyond the Page in Latin 
America’,/ edited by James Scorer.


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Comics Beyond the Page in Latin America

James Scorer

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/‘Comics Beyond the Page in Latin America’ /is a cutting-edge study of 
the expanding worlds of Latin American comics. Despite lack of funding 
and institutional support, not since the mid-twentieth century have 
comics in the region been so dynamic, so diverse and so engaged with 
pressing social and cultural issues. Comics are being used as essential 
tools in debates about, for example, digital cultures, gender identities 
and political disenfranchisement.

Rather than analysing the current boom in comics by focusing just on the 
printed text, however, this book looks at diverse manifestations of 
comics ‘beyond the page’. Contributors explore digital comics and social 
media networks; comics as graffiti and stencil art in public spaces; 
comics as a tool for teaching architecture or processing social trauma; 
and the consumption and publishing of comics as forms of shaping 
national, social and political identities.

Bringing together authors from across Latin America and beyond, and 
covering examples from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Peru and 
Uruguay, the book sets out a panoramic vision of Latin American comics, 
whether in terms of scholarly contribution, geographical diversity or 
interdisciplinary methodologies.

/‘Comics Beyond the Page in Latin America’ /demonstrates the importance 
of studying how comics circulate in all manner of ways beyond print 
media. It also reminds us of the need to think about the creative role 
of comics in societies with less established comics markets than in 
Europe, the US and Asia.


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