The Battle for Recollection: Maya Historietas as Art for Remembering War

Brian Montes analyzes the comic, Manuel Antonio Ay: El Primer Mártir de la Guerra de Castas,and how the use of visual and verbal modes of narrating powerfully shapes Maya resistance histories.

Afterlives: A Coda

In November 2016, the first Indigenous Comic Con took place in Albuquerque, New Mexico, through the visionary efforts of Lee Francis IV, publisher of Native Realities and author of the foreword to this volume, along with a cohort of Indigenous artists, cosplayers, and “Indiginerds.” Indigenous and indigenized superheroes abounded that weekend: Jeffrey Veregge’s Coastal Salish formline representations of Batman and Spiderman; Arigon Starr’s “rez boy turned Super Indian”; Jonathan Nelson’s “sheepish” hero Jonesy; ...

Memory in Pieces: Chola Power’s Origin Story and the Quest for Memory in Peru

Javier Garcia Liendo analyzes how the comic book, La Chola Power, functions as a repository of memory, safeguarding the history of Peru’s violent past as well as redeploying Indigenous epistemologies and linguistic codes (untranslated Quechua) to critique current contexts of exploitation and oppression.