COMIC BOOK STORYWORLDS: Latino Caped Crusaders in Mainstream Comics
W 2/3 |4 - 5 p.m. | Coffee, Cookies and Conversation
Coffee, Cookies and Conversation is a new CLLC-sponsored series held in the Crane Café that invites the entire campus and public-at-large to engage in conversations with renowned Ohio State faculty from our foreign language departments.
Dr. Frederick Aldama’s current research project, “Latinos in Mainstream Comic Book Storyworlds,” views the presence of Latinos in comic books, animations and films, investigating the making of these stories. Whether good or evil, beautiful or ugly, smart or downright silly, able-bodied or disabled, gay or straight, male or female, young or old, in the mainstream comic book story worlds (DC and Marvel universes, especially), Latino characters number somewhere in the fifties.
Come and find out over coffee and cookies how Latino superheroes can fly off the page (or not) as a result of the creator’s shaping of the story through plot, theme and character!
Frederick Luis Aldama is University Distinguished Scholar as well as Arts & Humanities Distinguished Professor of English, Spanish/ Portuguese at The Ohio State University where he is also founder and director of the White House Bright Spot Awarded LASER. He is the author, co-author, and editor of over twenty-four books.
