Introduction
Chapter 1: What is a Comic?
Chapter 2: Comics as Social Commentary
Chapter 3: Comics & Politics
Chapter 4: Gender and Sexuality in Comics
Chapter 5: Comic Book Transcreations
Biography
Frederick Luis Aldama is the Jacob & Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas, Austin. He is an award-winning author, co-author and editor of over 50 books, including the Eisner Award winning, Latinx Superheroes in Mainstream Comics (2017), Comics Studies Here and Now (2018), The Routledge Companion to Gender and Sexuality in Comics Studies (2020), and Comics Studies: The Key Concepts (2026). He is editor and co-editor of 10 book series, including Latinographix and Brown Ink that publish graphic fiction and nonfiction. His contributions to literature, art, and education have earned him Obama White House honors as well as induction into both the Texas Institute of Letters and Ohio State University's Hall of Fame.
Forget everything you thought you knew about comics being an American (or Japanese, or Franco-Belgian) thing—Aldama's Global Comics blows up parochial paradigms, delivering a planet-sized feast of sequential art that'll rewire your synapses. From Argentine maestros 'disappeared' by juntas to Egyptian street artists dodging Mubarak's goons, from Filipina superheroines to Haida manga (yes, you read that right), this book proves that the so-called 'Ninth Art' belongs to everybody, everywhere, always has. Essential, erudite, and never boring—read it or be left choking on the dust!
William A. Nericcio, editor of Amatl Comix and author of Tex[t]-Mex: Seductive Hallucinations of the "Mexican" in America
