Notes

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. PART I. Argentina and the Forging of a Tradition of Graphic Narrative: Military Tyranny and Redemocratization
5. 1. Masculinity as Privileged Human Agency in H. G. Oesterheld’s El Eternauta 1
6. 2. The Bar as Theatrical Heterotopia: José Muñoz and Carlos Sampayo’s El Bar de Joe 20
7. 3. Resisting Tyranny: The Perramus Figure of Alberto Breccia and Juan Sasturain 33
8. 4. The Lion in Winter: Carlos Sampayo and Francisco Solano López’s Police Commissioner Evaristo 46
9. 5. News Bulletins from the Gender Wars: Patricia Breccia’s Sin novedad en el frente 58
10. PART II. Brazil: Graphic Narrative as Postmodern and Globalized Consciousness
11. 6. Of Death and the Road: Rafael Grampá’s Mesmo Delivery 75
12. 7. The Unbearable Weight of Being: Daniel Galera and Rafael Coutinho’s Cachalote 83
13. 8. Copacabana and Other Hellish Fantasies: Sandro Lobo and Odyr Berdardi’s Copacabana 96
14. 9. Days of Death: Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá’s Daytripper as Existential Journey 106
15. 10. Women’s Wondrous Power versus the Telluric Gods in Angélica Freitas and Odyr Bernardi’s Guadalupe 119
16. Notes 129
17. Works Cited 147
18. Index 157