ABSTRACT

The author likes to share with his fellow teachers details of the foundational propositions that his keep in mind when teaching Latino comic books. The quality of imagination and visual and verbal storytelling skill varies from one comic to another. Given that most students know little about the history of comics generally and absolutely nothing about Latinos in comics, he provide lectures that give them this history. By assigning a number of different kinds of comics the students learn about the wide spectrum of genres chosen by author-artists in shaping Latino identity and experience. Along with the willful use of technique and storytelling comes a responsibility to subject matter. Students come to realize that there is a difference that makes a crucial difference between comic book author-artists who particularize Latino experience in places in time with a clear will to style and those who abstract character experience in places out of time.