Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Taking Back Control of Our Story Space: A Foreword ix
4. Latino Comic Books Past, Present, and Future—A Primer 1
5. Part I. Alternativas
6. One. Out of Sequence: Time and Meaning in Los Bros Hernandez 25
7. Two. Recreative Graphic Novel Acts in Gilbert Hernandez’s Twenty-First- Century Neo-Noirs 41
8. Three. Three Decades with Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez: An Odyssey by Interview 64
9. Part II . Cuerpo Comics
10. Four. Biographic Challenges: Wilfred Santiago’s 21: The Story of Roberto Clemente 83
11. Five. Wrestling with Comic Genres and Genders: Luchadores as Signifiers in Sonambulo and Locas 109
12. Part III. Tortilla Strips
13. Six. Latino Identity and the Market: Making Sense of Cantú and Castellanos’s Baldo 133
14. Seven. The Archeology of the Post-social in the Comics of Lalo Alcaraz: La Cucaracha and Migra Mouse: Political Cartoons on Immigration 152
15. Eight. My Debt to Rius 169
16. Part IV. A Bird, a Plane . . . Straight and Queer Super-Lats
17. Nine. The Alien Is Here to Stay: Otherness, Anti-Assimilation, and Empowerment in Latino/a Superhero Comics 181
18. Ten. Anya Sofía (Araña) Corazón: The Inner Webbings and Mexi-Ricanization of Spider-Girl 203
19. Eleven. Revealing Secret Identities: Gay Latino Superheroes and the Necessity of Disclosure 224
20. Part V. Multiverses, Admixtures, and More
21. Twelve. Everybody Wants to Rule the Multiverse: Latino Spider-Men in Marvel’s Media Empire 241
22. Thirteen. Mapping the Blatino Badlands and Borderlands of American Pop Culture 252
23. Fourteen. The Paradox of Miles Morales: Social Gatekeeping and the Browning of America’s Spider-Man 269
24. Works Cited 281
25. Contributor Notes 293
26. Index 295