Bücher von Harold E. Hinds

The editors have put together a solid overview of ten areas of popular culture in Latin America. Popular music, sports, television, popular religion, comics, photonovels, film, newspapers, cartoons, and festivals and carnivals are covered in this much-needed volume.

This pioneering study presents an overview of the Mexican comic book industry, together with in-depth studies of the best selling Mexican comic books of the 1960s and 1970s. Many may be surprised to learn that, in Mexico, Mexican comic books far outsell U.S. comic books in Spanish translation.