48 U N I V E R S I T Y O F T E X A S P R E S S | S P R I N G 2 0 2 4 JAMES SCORER MAnchester, Uk Scorer is a senior lecturer in Latin American cultural studies at the University of Manchester. He is the author of City in Common: Culture and Community in Buenos Aires, the editor of Comics Beyond the Page in Latin America, and the coeditor of Cultures of Anti-Racism in Latin America and the Caribbean and Comics and Memory in Latin America. world comics and graphic nonfiction series, Frederick Luis Aldama, Christopher González & Deborah Elizabeth Whaley, Editors release date | june 6 x 9 inches, 272 pages, 25 b&w illustrations ISBN 978-1-4773-2902-3 $45.00* | £40.00 | C$55.95 hardcover ISBN 978-1-4773-2905-4 $45.00 e-book Given comics’ ability to cross borders, Latin Ameri- can 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 comics, Latin American Comics in the Twenty-First Century documents how these works move beyond national boundaries and explores new aspects of the form, its subjects, and its creators. Latin American comics production is arguably more inter- connected and more networked across national borders than ever before. Analyzing works from Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay, James Scorer organizes his study around forms of “transgression,” such as transnationalism, bor- der crossings, transfeminisms, punk bodies, and encounters in the neoliberal city. Scorer examines the feminist comics collec- tive Chicks on Comics; the DIY comics zine world; nonfiction and journalistic comics; contagion and zombie narratives; and more. Drawing from archives across the United States, Europe, and Latin America, Latin American Comics in the Twenty-First Century posits that these comics produce micronarratives of everyday life that speak to sites of social struggle shared across nation states. Latin American Comics in the Twenty-First Century Transgressing the Frame J A M E S S C O R E R How twenty-first-century Latin American comics transgress social, political, and cultural frontiers | f i l m , m e d i a & p o p u l a r c u lt u r e : c o m i c s |
