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Your Brain on Latino Comics: From Gus Arriola to Los Bros Hernandez (Cognitive Approaches to Literature and Culture)

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"'Holy funny pages, Batman!' Fred Aldama's Your Brain on Latino Comics tears open new tierra as its savvy x-ray vision parses Latino visual culture. With voracious eyes attuned to word-image conspiracies, grandmaster Aldama's ink-stained hands reveal the legacy and destiny of 'American' comics. This is a go-to book for profs in ethnic/cultural studies and communications. Jump into a phone booth and reach for your hot spandex tights--Aldama's lush, semiotic alchemy will have you leaping buildings in a single bound!"

--William A. Nericcio
--Director, Master of Arts in Liberal Arts and Scieneces, San Diego State University
--Visiting Professor, Media and Cultural Studies, University of California, Riverside

"Your Brain on Latino Comics" is on the ROROTOKO list of cutting-edge intellectual nonfiction. Professor Aldama's book interview ran here as cover feature on June 10, 2009.

I've been reading Los Bros Hernandez since the early 80s and recently started following Rocketo. Aldama, an academic who writes for the any-joe, tells us all about these guys and many others and the way they do their magic, and what we do when we read their stuff. X-ray vision--this is it into the world of Latino comics.