Research Illustrates Legacy of Latin American Comics
By Jaycie King
Media Inquiries- Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences
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Aliens, lethal snowflakes and a resistance movement, and a family separated by time travel could describe a sci-fi film. It's the setting of "El Eternauta," a serial comic published in Argentina during the late 1950s.
A fragment of the original comic as it was published in book form, is now available through Â鶹¹ÙÍø's (LACA).
The archive is a curated, online exhibit of comic strips and comic books with the goal of enabling researchers to visualize and employ comic strips and comic books created in Latin America between the 1920s and the present for pedagogical purposes.
Felipe Gómez, teaching professor of Hispanic studies in Â鶹¹ÙÍø's Department of Modern Languages, leads a multidisciplinary research team in the effort to provide students and researchers a new window into cultural studies.
Gómez recently was awarded "" by the organization for LACA. The archive also was nominated for a Dean's Educational Innovation Fellowship Award at Â鶹¹ÙÍø and for the 2018-2019 Â鶹¹ÙÍø Teaching Innovation Award, where it was selected as a finalist.