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The Hernandez Brothers : Love, Rockets, and Alternative Comics /

"This study offers a critical examination of the work of Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez, Mexican-American brothers whose graphic novels are highly influential. The Hernandez brothers started in the alt-comics scene, where their 'Love and Rockets' series quickly gained prominence. They ha...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: García, Enrique (VerfasserIn.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2017]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface. My Poison River Fiasco
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Spotlight 1. Marble Season: Growing Up with Comics
  • Chapter One. Subverting the Intertextual Comic Book Corporate Structure
  • Spotlight 2. Robots in Jaime's "Rocky" Stories and Gilbert's Citizen Rex
  • Chapter Two. The Revision of Latino Experience through Comic Book Genres and Soap Opera Devices in Gilbert's Palomar and Jaime's Locas Sagas
  • Spotlight 3. "Chiro the Indian" (from Love and Rockets: New Stories #1, vol. 1)
  • Chapter Three. Interview with Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index