Comics and the Global South

Original comics scholarship offering methodologies developed from the histories, artistic traditions, and socio-political contexts of comics and visual cultures from the Global South.

Comics, graphic novels and webtoons are exploding in popularity across the world, with extraordinary artistic achievements emerging from the Global South and Majority World(s). Because most of the critical and methodological tools in English-language comics scholarship come from the Global North, such approaches are often imperfectly designed to illuminate Global South/Global Majority specificities, innovations, and resultant achievements. Comics and the Global South brings together original comics scholarship that offers methodologies crafted within the histories, artistic traditions, and social and political realities of the comics and visual cultures in and from the Global South. With new ideas about how to read panels, lines, colour, and meaning, the contributions make a major breakthrough in our ability to understand comics of the Global South on their own terms.

Author Biography

Andrea Aramburú is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Manchester. She holds a PhD in Latin American Studies from the University of Cambridge. Her research explores Latin American visual cultures through queer theory and decolonial feminisms. Dibyadyuti Roy is an associate professor in Cultural Studies, Media Studies, and Digital Humanities at the University of Leeds. His scholarship and teaching interrogates cultural narratives of dominant and emergent technologies, with a particular focus on the impact of digitality within marginalized communities. Joe Sutliff Sanders is a Fellow at Lucy Cavendish College and a specialist in children’s media in the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge.