The Latin American Comics Archive (LACA)

Felipe Gómez (Carnegie Mellon University)

The video discusses creating an online archive of Latin American comics in comic book markup language published with Omeka. The project allows students, teachers, and scholars to research and annotate comics. The video discusses how the project was made and how users can benefit from its dynamic interface.

Further Reading and Resources

Gómez Gutiérrez, F., Weingart, S., Evans, D., & Mulligan, R.. (Forthcoming) “The Latin American Comics Archive (LACA): an online platform housing digitized Spanish-language comics as a tool to enhance literacy, research, and teaching through scholar/student collaboration.” Cuadernos del Centro de Estudios en Diseño y Comunicación issue on “Multimodal experimentation in communication and learning. Ways to rethink literacy.”
Walsh, J. A. (2012). Comic Book Markup Language: An Introduction and Rationale, Digital Humanities Quarterly, 6(1).
Whitson, R. T., & Salter, A. (2015). Introduction: Comics and the Digital Humanities, Digital Humanities Quarterly 9(4).

July 3, 2019. Digital Editions

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Felipe Gómez (Carnegie Mellon University)

Felipe Gómez Gutiérrez is teaching professor of Hispanic Studies at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh (USA). He is the author of numerous articles on recent and contemporary Latin American literature, films, and comics, and is the founder and curator of the Latin American Comics Archive (LACA), a digital humanities project. His current work includes the book project entitled “Utopia, Dystopia, and Affect in Recent Latin American Comics.”