ABSTRACT

Latin/x American figures have long played a part in US cultural production, from the earliest days of Hollywood cinema to the ever-expanding forms of modern media that surround us today. A major stage in this blossoming of Latinx representation in US comics can be traced back to the Hernandez brothers' Love and Rockets, a series long recognized for breaking with the limited modes of representation previously found in mainstream and underground comix. Published under the singular title Love and Rockets, the series is composed of multiple storylines that contribute to the construction of separate graphic narrative worlds created by individual authors. As a hybrid of multiple forms and traditions, the series itself can be linked to the process of mestizaje that Anzaldua describes in Borderlands/La frontera, the product of transcultural fusion that in many ways shapes Latinx identity.