This volume discusses the role of comics in the formation of a modern sense of nationhood in Latin America and the rise of a collective Latino identity in the USA. It is one of the first attempts - in English and from a cultural studies perspective - to cover Latin/o American comics with a fully continental scope. Specific cases include cultural powerhouses like Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico, as well as the production of lesser-known industries, like Chile, Cuba, and Peru.

INNOVATIVE: Bringing together leading scholars in the field, this is the first comprehensive book to focus on political cartoons and artist activism in Latin America

Mônica Power; Comics, Society, Brazil - Eva Paulino Bueno and Terry Caesar * Condorito, Chilean Popular Culture, and The Work of Mediation - Juan Poblete * Race and Gender in The Adventures of Kalimán, el Hombre Increíble - Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste * Cuban Cartoonists: Masters of Coping - John A. Lent * Argentina's Montoneros:  Comics, Cartoons, and Images as Political Propaganda in The Underground Guerrilla Press of The 1970s - Fernando Reati * Memín Pinguín: Líos Gordos con los Gringos - Robert McKee Irwin * Acevedo and His Predecessors - Carla Sagástegui * Brazilian Comics: Origin, Development, and Future Trends - Waldomiro Vergueiro * Pavane for A Deceased Comic: Decadence, Illusions, and Demise of an Exuberant Narrative - Armando Barta * The Fierro Years: An Exercise in Melancholy - Pablo de Santis * Mexican Comics: A Bastion of Imperfection - Ricardo Peláez * Ilan Stavans's Latino USA: A Cartoon History (of A Cosmopolitan Intellectual) - Paul Allatson * The Bros. Hernandez: A Latin Presence in Alternative U.S. Comics - Ana Merino