Frederick Luis Aldama

Frederick Luis Aldama, also known as Professor Latinx, is Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and affiliate faculty in radio-TV-film at the University of Texas, Austin, as well as adjunct professor and Distinguished University Professor at The Ohio State University. He is author of over forty-eight books and has received the International Latino Book Award and an Eisner Award for Latinx Superheroes in Mainstream Comics. He is editor or coeditor of nine academic press book series, including Biographix with University Press of Mississippi. He is creator of the first documentary on the history of Latinx superheroes and founder and director of UT’s Latinx Pop Lab. His Spanish translation and animation film adaptation of his children’s book The Adventures of Chupacabra Charlie (2020) will be released in the fall of 2021. He is also editor of Graphic Indigeneity: Comics in the Americas and Australasia and Jeff Smith: Conversations, both published by University Press of Mississippi.

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Jeff Smith

Conversations

University Press of Mississippi

A career-spanning collection of interviews with the comics creator of Bone, RASL, and Tüki: Save the Humans

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Jeff Smith

Conversations

University Press of Mississippi

A career-spanning collection of interviews with the comics creator of Bone, RASL, and Tüki: Save the Humans

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Graphic Indigeneity

Comics in the Americas and Australasia

University Press of Mississippi

How comics in the Americas and Oceania have misconstrued, transformed, and reconstructed Indigenous stories

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Contagious Imagination

The Work and Art of Lynda Barry

Edited by Jane Tolmie; Foreword by Frederick Luis Aldama; Afterword by Glenn Willmott
University Press of Mississippi

The long-awaited book-length analysis of the approaches and applications to teaching found in the great comic artist’s work

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Atravesados

Essays on Queer Latinx Young Adult Literature

University Press of Mississippi

A scholarly revelation of the Latinidades characters and works that have crossed multiple borders

  • Copyright year: 2025
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