Dan Johnson recaps BIPOC POP 2026!

Xavier Garza (Moderator), John Picacio (Illustrator-Author), Frederick Luis Aldama (Author and Editor) at the San Antonio Book Festival April 11, 2026 San Antonio has always felt like a city that holds memory in its bones. The riverwalk and historic el marcado hums with it. The food carries it. And every spring, the San Antonio Book Festival draws together the storytellers who know how to excavate that memory and put it on the page, the panel, the panel, the illustrated sprea

Sam Ceballos and Henry Barajas get into the creating of noir comics. Through storytelling, digital art creation, and research Barajas breaks down what it means to be a comic writer.

What happens when you build spaces where BIPOC creators, scholars, students, and communities can come together not just to consume stories but to make them?

The only thing more powerful than hate is love.

"We do projectile deflection on Mondays"

At Latino Comics Expo 2025, held at Long Beach's Museum of Latin American Art (MoLAA), five comic artists came together to talk with me and a crowd of LCX attendees about From Cocinas to Lucha Libre Ringsides: A Latinx Comics Anthology.

United States of Banana: A Graphic Novel is a work of metamorphoses and becomings, masterfully achieved through the image-inspiring words of iconic Latinx poet and radical thinker Giannina Braschi and the artwork of Joakim Lindengren, whose illustrations give them a bizarre and beautiful twist.

Knowing the truth is painful, but liberating. Without it the scars will never heal.

My hope is that it makes its way to Latin America, to Guatemala, because this history isn't taught in schools there.

Hollywood has put Pascal in an impossible bind: he can't be the traditional superhero leader without invoking the machismo stereotype that Latino men supposedly embody and, thus, must avoid.

From Cocinas to Lucha Libre Ringsides brings together an extraordinary collection of Latinx creators to explore how food and sports serve as powerful touchstones of identity and community in the Latino Americas.

This comic is a tribute: to her, to the borderlands, and to the mestiza consciousness that takes shape in the messy, meaningful rituals of becoming.

Comicpalooza University (CP University) is a space where fans, scholars, and creatives come together to learn, share, and build community.

Rian provides a list of must-read Latinx comics!

Namor’s vision could be described as aqua-pessimism—a fluid, insurgent worldview that interrogates whether the surface world, as it currently exists, is even worthy of inclusion in the inevitable, irrepressible unfolding of Black and Brown futures.

5 Must-Read Latine Word & Image Stories

It’s not always easy to pin down what makes a comic “Latinx” or "Latino."

Alita: Battle Angel is a vibrant, layered world mirrored the social disparities often explored in Latin American cinema

Speak Up, Santiago! is a warm story about friendship, self-determination, and disrupting the notion that there is a “right” way to be Latino.