José Alaniz
Biographic Data
| ID | 1142306 |
|---|---|
| NAME | José Alaniz |
| GIVEN NAMES | José |
| FAMILY NAME | Alaniz |
| SIGNATURE | ALANIZ J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2326-4565 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Muscle memory
Since the late 20th century, several disabled artists and performers have appropriated superhero iconography ostensibly to ridicule and lambast the supercrip, a mainstream media trope that figures
Elephants and DJs
The article is an excerpt from a chapter in José Alaniz’s book Resurrection. Comics in Post-Soviet Russia (Columbus: Ohio State University Press 2022). The essay analyses post-Soviet Russian comics which represent mental/physical disabilities, by both non-disabled and disabled authors. It presents some key issues pertaining to disability in contemporary Russian culture and discusses the challenges of disability representation in the verbal/visual…
"Death Drive" to Los Alamos
"Death Drive" to Los Alamos:Puma Blues as Eco-Male-ancholia José Alaniz (bio) It is the privilege of man to revolt against nature and make himself sick. —Brown, 1985, p. 84 Gavia Immer sits in his government-issued cabin in year-2000 Massachusetts, as military planes drop tons of lime in the Quabbin Reservoir "to compensate for the effects of acid rain" (Murphy & Zulli, 2015, p. 27).1 He starts to watch a trove of experimental videotapes produced…
The Shoah, Czech comics and Drda/Mazal’s “The Enormous Disc of the Sun”
Appearing fitfully in a handful of works, the theme of the Holocaust remains rare in Czech comics. This essay examines the Czech and Slovak historical responses to the Shoah in the post-war era, through the communist takeover of the country and after 1989 for an understanding of the reluctance of Czech comics artists to explore the topic. Works covered include Jaroslav Rudiš/Jaromir 99’s Alois Nebel (largely considered to have launched the Czech …
‘In The Empire of the Senses’ and the Narrative Horizons of Comics
With their 1980s independent comics series The Puma Blues, writer Stephen Murphy and artist Michael Zulli presented a foreboding scifi vision of ecological catastrophe in a near-future USA, where mutated manta rays fly the skies, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse roam the desert sands of the southwest and imminent nuclear devastation looms. Yet for all its pessimism, the series (in 2015 expanded, completed and reissued through Dover Press) has …
Death, Disability, and the Superhero
The Thing. Daredevil. Captain Marvel. The Human Fly. Drawing on DC and Marvel comics from the 1950s to the 1990s and marshaling insights from three burgeoning fields of inquiry in the humanities—disability studies, death and dying studies, and comics studies—the book seeks to redefine the contemporary understanding of the superhero. Beginning in the Silver Age, the genre increasingly challenged and complicated its hypermasculine, quasi-eugenicist…
[(Post-] Soviet) Zone of Dystopia
José Alaniz, ([POST-] SOVIET) ZONE OF DYSTOPIA: VORONOVICH/TKALENKO'S 'STERVA', The Slavic and East European Journal, Vol. 57, No. 2, FORUM: CLASSICS INTERPRETED: GRAPHIC NARRATIVE ADAPTATIONS OF SLAVIC LITERARY WORKS (SUMMER 2013), pp. 203-228
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[(Post-] Soviet) Zone of Dystopia
José Alaniz, ([POST-] SOVIET) ZONE OF DYSTOPIA: VORONOVICH/TKALENKO'S 'STERVA', The Slavic and East European Journal, Vol. 57, No. 2, FORUM: CLASSICS INTERPRETED: GRAPHIC NARRATIVE ADAPTATIONS OF SLAVIC LITERARY WORKS (SUMMER 2013), pp. 203-228
Death, Disability, and the Superhero
The Thing. Daredevil. Captain Marvel. The Human Fly. Drawing on DC and Marvel comics from the 1950s to the 1990s and marshaling insights from three burgeoning fields of inquiry in the humanities—disability studies, death and dying studies, and comics studies—the book seeks to redefine the contemporary understanding of the superhero. Beginning in the Silver Age, the genre increasingly challenged and complicated its hypermasculine, quasi-eugenicist…
‘In The Empire of the Senses’ and the Narrative Horizons of Comics
With their 1980s independent comics series The Puma Blues, writer Stephen Murphy and artist Michael Zulli presented a foreboding scifi vision of ecological catastrophe in a near-future USA, where mutated manta rays fly the skies, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse roam the desert sands of the southwest and imminent nuclear devastation looms. Yet for all its pessimism, the series (in 2015 expanded, completed and reissued through Dover Press) has …
The Shoah, Czech comics and Drda/Mazal’s “The Enormous Disc of the Sun”
Appearing fitfully in a handful of works, the theme of the Holocaust remains rare in Czech comics. This essay examines the Czech and Slovak historical responses to the Shoah in the post-war era, through the communist takeover of the country and after 1989 for an understanding of the reluctance of Czech comics artists to explore the topic. Works covered include Jaroslav Rudiš/Jaromir 99’s Alois Nebel (largely considered to have launched the Czech …
"Death Drive" to Los Alamos
"Death Drive" to Los Alamos:Puma Blues as Eco-Male-ancholia José Alaniz (bio) It is the privilege of man to revolt against nature and make himself sick. —Brown, 1985, p. 84 Gavia Immer sits in his government-issued cabin in year-2000 Massachusetts, as military planes drop tons of lime in the Quabbin Reservoir "to compensate for the effects of acid rain" (Murphy & Zulli, 2015, p. 27).1 He starts to watch a trove of experimental videotapes produced…
Muscle memory
Since the late 20th century, several disabled artists and performers have appropriated superhero iconography ostensibly to ridicule and lambast the supercrip, a mainstream media trope that figures
Elephants and DJs
The article is an excerpt from a chapter in José Alaniz’s book Resurrection. Comics in Post-Soviet Russia (Columbus: Ohio State University Press 2022). The essay analyses post-Soviet Russian comics which represent mental/physical disabilities, by both non-disabled and disabled authors. It presents some key issues pertaining to disability in contemporary Russian culture and discusses the challenges of disability representation in the verbal/visual…
Art (6 works) · Literature (6 works) · History (5 works) · Comics and Graphic Narratives (4 works) · Comics (3 works) · Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Digital Storytelling and Education (2 works) · Narrative (2 works)