Title: ¡Viva la historieta!
First published: 2009
Description: The focus of the book is on graphic narratives produced by and for Mexicans in the period following the 1994 implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement. Covers a range of contemporary Mexican comics, including works of propaganda, romance and adventure, graphic novels, a corporate "brand" series, didactic single-issue books, and a superhero parody series. Offers an examination of the ways in which specific comics or comic book series represent Mexico's national identity, the U.S.'s influence, and globalization's effects on technology and economics since the passage of NAFTA.
Subjects: Canada, Comic books, strips, Globalization in art, Globalization in literature, History and criticism, Treaties, Comic books, strips, etc., history and criticism, Globalization, North American Free Trade Agreement, Canada. 1992 October 7., Canada. 1992 Oct. 7.
Places: Mexico
LC classification: PN6790.M48 C36 2009