Hispanic Heritage Month Archives

September is Hispanic Heritage Month, and last month DC Comics planned to celebrate this with variant covers came a real cropper, with a number of the covers criticised of being offensively simplistic and reductive,, often just having a DC superhero character with foodstuff stereotypically associated with Hispanic cuisine such as tamales, pupusas, and plátanos[...]

The decision follows a social media uproar over the change to the cover, which joined six other Hispanic Heritage Month variant covers for September, all of them featuring characters holding or consuming various forms of Hispanic cuisine. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 50%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode()[...]

September is Hispanic Heritage Month, and DC Comics plans to celebrate in the only way comic book companies know how to celebrate anything: with variant covers Seven titles published in September will feature Hispanic Heritage Month variant covers featuring Hispanic DC Comics characters Sounds simple enough, right? Well… this is the comics industry we're talking[...]