Deploying diverse theoretical approaches - from history, memory, and emotion to urban ecology, feminism, queer studies, intermediality, and visual culture - this volume explores contemporary Spain’s vibrant, diverse, socially-invested, and longstanding comics culture.

Edited by Samuel Amago and Matthew J. Marr

List of Figures
Acknowledgments

1. Comics in Contemporary Spain
Samuel Amago, University of Virginia and Matthew J. Marr, Pennsylvania State University

Part One: Comics and Historical Memory

2. Drawing (on) Spanish History
Samuel Amago, University of Virginia

3. Comics, History, and Memory in the ‘90s: Las memorias de Amorós
Pedro Pérez del Solar, Universidad del Pacífico

4. "Shadows Have No Voice": Democratic Memory in Felipe Hernández Cava and Federico del Barrio’s El artefacto perverso (1996) and Francisco and Miguel Gallardo’s Un largo silencio (1997)
Xavier Dapena, University of Pennsylvania

Part Two: Comics and Economic Crisis

5. Building a Home for Crisis Narrative: Intermediality and Comic(s) Pedagogy in Aleix Saló’s Españistán Project
Matthew J. Marr, Pennsylvania State University

6. Urban Ecology and Comics Journalism in Jorge Carrión and Sagar Forniés’s Barcelona: Los vagabundos de la chatarra (2015)
Christine M. Martínez, New York University

Part Three: Comics and Personhood

7. Post-op in the Real World: Cancer and Queer Resistance in Isabel Franc and Susanna Martín’s Alicia en un mundo real (2011)
Emily DiFilippo, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

8. How to Explain Comics to a Dead Hare: Intertextuality and Crisis in Rosana Antolí’s Neo-surrealist Graphic Novel Pareidolia (2014)
Eduardo Ledesma, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

List of Contributors
Index