Latin American Comics in the Twenty-First Century: Transgressing the Frame

2025 Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize, Modern Language Association
2025 Comics Studies Society Charles Hatfield Book Prize, Honorable Mention

How twenty-first-century Latin American comics transgress social, political, and cultural frontiers.

Given comics’ ability to cross borders, Latin American creators have used the form to transgress the political, social, spatial, and cultural borders that shape the region. A groundbreaking and comprehensive study of twenty-first-century Latin American co...