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This book is a fantastic recollection of the Latino effort to make comics a true intellectual space of knowledge and critical thinking. Fernandez L'Hoeste's book on Lalo Alcaraz opens the heart of the Latino community, bringing a new genealogy of knowledge and political understanding. Alcaraz's humanistic views on the immigration debate through political cartoons are a true lesson to all Americans who need to relearn the art of compassion and empathy. Humor and sarcasm are keys to reinforce a stronger democracy and the Latino way to express thoughts are consolidating the cultural richness of America.--Ana Merino, author of El Comic Hispanico, Chris Ware: la secuencia circular, and Fantagraphics: creadores del canon Fernandez L'Hoeste's virtuoso scholarly skills dig deep into the work of one of the most politically incisive writing and drawing artists of our times: Lalo Alcaraz. He blasts his trademark erudition into every nook and cranny of Alcaraz's tremendous body of work: from his early satirical stand-up performative art to his comic strips and recent writing for Fox's Bordertown. With a magisterial sweep, Fernandez L'Hoeste gracefully situates Alcaraz's oeuvre within a planetary scene of creative revolutionaries from our pre-Columbian pictographic arts to veteranos like Gus Arriola, Rius, Quino, and Art Spiegelman as well as contemporaries like Marjane Satrapi, Hector Cantu, Carlos Castellanos, Frank Espinosa, Rafael Navarro, Los Bros Hernandez, and Aaron McGruder. With this masterly scholarly work, our epoch's greatest word-image satirical creator, Lalo Alcaraz, finally gets his due.--Frederick Luis Aldama, author of Your Brain on Latino Comics: From Gus Arriola to Los Bros Hernandez and Latinx Comic Book Storytelling: An Odyssey by Interview

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Héctor D. Fernández L'Hoeste, Avondale Estates, Georgia, is professor of world languages and cultures at Georgia State University in Atlanta. He is author of Narrativas de representacion urbana: un estudio de expresiones culturales de la modernidad latinoamericana and coeditor of Rockin Las Americas: The Global Politics of Rock in Latin/o America; Redrawing the Nation: National Identity in Latin/o American Comics; Cumbia! Scenes of a Migrant Latin American Music Genre; and Sports and Nationalism in Latin/o America.

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