About
Latinx Pop Lab™ is a creative and knowledge-generating space that bridges campus with BIPOC creative critical local, regional, and national communities.
Latinx Pop Lab seeks to establish UT Austin as a leading hub for innovative creative, intellectual, and curatorial work focused on Latinx pop narratives, including comic books, animation, gaming, and multimedia arts.
The making of BIPOC creative critical communal spaces is core to Latinx Pop Lab’s mission and identity. With events & programs throughout the year, the Latinx Pop Lab focuses on growing new generations of BIPOC critical creative makers, thinkers, & doers.
The Latinx Pop Lab
4th Floor Patton Hall
Room RPL 4.102
The Latinx Pop Lab Open Hours Fall 2024
Monday & Wednesday 11-3PM
Tuesdays & Thursdays 9AM-Noon
Friday 11-2PM
Signature Programs
Latinx Pop Lab & Latinx Creative Critical Consortium
The Latinx Pop Lab along with Critical Consortium partners—Texas A&M, UT Dallas, Southern Methodist University, Texas State, San Marcos, and Austin Community College—offers students from across Texas the opportunity to share, workshop, and engage with the cutting-edge Latinx creative and scholarly work being done today. The aim: for students to critically create work that resonates across on-campus and off-campus publics.
Latinx Pop Lab Creative Collaboratory
The Creative Collaboratory residency brings to the UT campus & Austin community BIPOC creators working in the comics and multimedia narrative arts to work collaboratively on a new project with a given theme. Residencies embed creatives in the ongoing critical creative work at the Latinx Pop Lab, exploring and workshopping with students at UT and K-12 in the community in ways that foster dialogue & creation across the arts, humanities, and STEM fields.
Latinx Pop Lab’s BIPOC POP
Every spring, the Latinx Pop Lab’s BIPOC POP Expo & Symposium brings to the UT Austin campus creatives, scholars, and industry leaders working in the comics, gaming, animation, and multimedia arts to focus on strengthening community through the sharing of cutting edge creative critical knowledge making in the graphic storytelling arts. BIPOC POP clears a creative critical space for making & strengthening community and creative critical action today and tomorrow in the comics, gaming, animation, & multimedia storytelling arts.
About Professor Aldama
Frederick Luis Aldama
Frederick Luis Aldama, aka Professor Latinx, is the Jacob & Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas, Austin, where he is also founder and director of the Latinx Pop Lab as well as Editor-in-Chief of the Latinx Pop Magazine and FlowerSong Press. He is an award-winning author, co-author, editor, and coeditor of over 50 books, including an Eisner for Latinx Superheroes in Mainstream Comics.
Aldama is editor and coeditor of a dozen book series, including Biographix, Latinographix, and Brown Ink. He is author of children’s books, including The Adventures of Chupacabra Charlie (published in English and Spanish) and the bilingual, Con Papá / With Papá. He is co-creator and producer of the award-winning animation short, Carlitos Chupacabra (Cannes Animation Fest 2023).
Aldama is author of comic books and graphic novels, including Pyroclast, Through Fences, Labyrinths Borne, and The Steampunkera Chronicles (forthcoming)as well as the YA novel, The Absolutely (Almost) True Adventures of Max Rodriguez. He has been inducted into the National Cartoonists Society, the Texas Institute of Letters, the Ohio State University’s Office of Diversity & Inclusion Hall of Fame, and serves on the board of directors for The Academy of American Poets.
Directory
LPL Team
Samantha Ceballos | Paloma Aguirre | Dani García-Karr | Anna Cho| Rose Padilla
LPL Council
- William A. Nericcio. Director of MALAS. Editor Amatl Comics. San Diego State University
- Javier & Nino. MexAmeriCon
- David Bowles. CHISPA Comics.
- John Jennings & Stanford Carpenter. BCAF: Black & Brown Comix Arts Festival
- Lee Francis IV. IndigiCon & Red Planet Books/Comics & Native Realities Press
- Richard Santos. Austin Bat Cave
- Kevin Garcia. Liberal Arts & Sciences Academy
- Peter Murrieta. Creator, Producer, & ASU professor
- Héctor Rodriguez. Director Texas Latino Comic Con & Co-Publisher CHISPA Comics
- Joseph Lopez. Director. Media & Gaming Lab. Texas A&M
- Oscar Garza & Rolando Esquivel. 5Meats Comics
- Theresa Rojas. Director. Latinx Comics Arts Festival
- Ben Lopez. Independent Consultant & Producer
- Javier Hernandez. Latino Comics Expo
- Edward Vidaurre. Publisher and Director, FlowerSong Press