Mex Comics Sources edit
Books: edit
Bad Language, Naked Ladies, and Other Threats to the Nation: A Political History of Comic Books in Mexico (bought, waiting for delivery)
Viva la historieta: Mexican Comics, NAFTA, and the Politics of Globalization by Bruce Campbell (bought, waiting for delivery)
Not Just for Children: The Mexican Comic Book in the Late 1960s and 1970s by Harold E Hinds, Jr. And Charles M. Tatum, Greenwood Press
- chapters organized around individual titles with 2 more general chapters
- 9 individual comic titles covered (Kalimán, Lágrimas, risas, y amor, Los supermachos, Los agachados, Chanoc, El Payo, La familia Burrón, La novela policiaca)
Latino U.S.A. by Ilan Stavans, Basic Books (some stuff in the intro)
1001 Comics You Must Read Before You Die
- entries for: Los Supersabios (p 102), La Familia Burrón (107), Santo (p 170), Fantomas (219), Kalimán (267), Los Agachados (295), Comixtlán (484) (possibly more but it's not indexed by country and some titles are translated so I won't be sure till I've paged through the whole $&* thing
Journal & magazine articles: edit
Comics Interview #92 pages 10-18, interview with Rémy Bastien from 1991 * an overview
Alter Ego #43 "Supermen South" by Fred Patten pages 2-3
- some stuff on US reprints
- more on Mexican originals
- part or all of this is a reprint -need to figure out dates to get the context
Possible additional sources: edit
- Comics Journal 137
- Comics Journal 141
- Comics Journal 142
- Comics Journal 242 historietas
- Comics Interview #93
- Comics Buyers Guide #503 July 8, 1983 Cris Couch "In Mexico, Nearly Everybody Reads Comics", p20-30
- Rémy was writing an overview for Comics Buyers Guide in 1991 but I don't know if it ever saw print
- index to Comic Art Collection at Michigan State