Frederick Luis Aldama

Frederick Luis Aldama is the Jacob & Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas, Austin, and founder of the Latinx Pop Lab. A multiple award–winning author and editor of over sixty books, he is an inductee of the Texas Institute of Letters and Ohio State University’s Hall of Fame. His most recent book is "Two Vatos Talk Po Cultura" with Peter Murrieta.

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Awards: 2018 Eisner Award for Best Academic/Scholarly Work; Austin's Life Time Achievement Award; Induction into the Texas Institute of Letters, the National Cartoonist Society, and the Ohio State University Hall of Fame

Communities: Hispanic or Latinx

Books:

Two Vatos Talk Pop Cultura

Latinx Tv, Film, and Futures Unscripted
Nuestras Raices
University of Arizona Press
October 2026
ISBN 9780816557721
paperback, 0 pages

Tales from la Vida

A Latinx Comics Anthology

Mad Creek Books
September 2018
ISBN 9780814254936
Paperback, 184 pages

In the Latinx comics community, there is much to celebrate today, with more Latinx comic book artists than ever before. The resplendent visual-verbal storyworlds of these artists reach into and radically transform so many visual and storytelling genres. Tales from la Vida celebrates this space by bringing together more than eighty contributions by extraordinary Latinx creators. Their short visual-verbal narratives spring from autobiographical experience as situated within the language, culture, and history that inform Latinx identity and life. Tales from la Vida showcases the huge variety of styles and worldviews of today's Latinx comic book and visual creators. Whether it's detailing the complexities of growing up--mono- or multilingual, bicultural, straight, queer, or feminist Latinx--or focusing on aspects of pop culture, these graphic vignettes demonstrate the expansive complexity of Latinx identities. Taken individually and together, these creators--including such legendary artists as Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez, Roberta Gregory, and Kat Fajardo, to name a few--and their works show the world that when it comes to Latinx comics, there are no limits to matters of content and form. As we travel from one story to the next and experience the unique ways that each creator chooses to craft his or her story, our hearts and minds wake to the complex ways that Latinxs live within and actively transform the world. More/less