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.

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

Juan Poblete is Associate Professor of Literature at the University of California at Santa Cruz.

Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste is Associate Professor of Latin American Cultural Studies at the State University of New York at Stony Brook