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| hottest comic book heroines: Immigrants and Comics Nhora Lucía Serrano, 2021-03-09 Immigrants and Comics is an interdisciplinary, themed anthology that focuses on how comics have played a crucial role in representing, constructing, and reifying the immigrant subject and the immigrant experience in popular global culture of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Nhora Lucía Serrano and a diverse group of contributors examine immigrant experience as they navigate new socio-political milieux in cartoons, comics, and graphic novels across cultures and time periods. They interrogate how immigration is portrayed in comics and how the ‘immigrant’ was an indispensable and vital trope to the development of the comics medium in the twentieth century. At the heart of the book‘s interdisciplinary nexus is a critical framework steeped in the ideas of remembrance and commemoration, what Pierre Nora calls lieux de mémoire. This book will be of interest to students and scholars in Visual Studies, Comparative Literature, English, Ethnic Studies, Francophone Studies, American Studies, Hispanic Studies, art history, and museum studies. |
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| hottest comic book heroines: Vampirella: The Dynamite Years Omnibus Vol. 2 Brandon Jerwa, 2018-01-31 Vampirella, a lethal beauty waging a war against the undead and demonic, must defend her recent actions to a tribunal deep within Vatican City. Hell is coming to Earth, and only Vampirella and her trusted allies can stop it! Bad blood and old grievances are put aside when a deadly coven of witches threatens to unrival all time and reality, and Vampirella finds herself stranded one hundred years in the future. A vision of things to come forces our heroine to make a painful decision, forever altering her fate. Then, what begins in the shadowy jungles of a voodoo island empire will reach its astonishing conclusion in Hell itself! Everyone's favorite dark heroine will be pushed to the breaking point as her sanctuary is threatened, her love is at risk, and her own mother might just be her worst enemy after all! It's a story of endings and beginnings! |
| hottest comic book heroines: Dynamite 2017 Cosplay Cover Special , 2018-01-10 Beginning with Vampirella #1 and Red Sonja #1, Dynamite scoured the internet for the best cosplayers in all of fandom! Now, a select group is presented here in their very own comic featuring those covers! Included are: Vera Bambi, Cervena Fox, Joanie Brosas, Ireland Reid, Deanna Davis, and more! Bonus: Sheena cosplay by Ashley Du! |
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