Dreamlands, Border Zones, and Spaces of Exception: Comics and Graphic Narratives on the US-Mexico Border

This article explores the connections between the spaces of exception along national borders and the bordered architecture of graphic narratives in Charles Bowden and Alice Leora Briggs' Dreamland: The Way Out of Juárez (2010) and Jon Sack's La Lucha: The Story of Lucha Castro and Human Rights in Mexico (2015).