Coming Soon! Jean, Janus & Comic Book Realism

We’re happy to share that we’ll be releasing Stephanie Nina Pitsirilos’s August 10th 2022 lecture “Jean, Janus & Comic Book Realism” delivered at the Chautauqua Institution upon receiving the Janus Prize, in both chapbook and ebook form. Chock-full of craft, comic book realism, family history, historical notes for Puerto Rico and Nuyorico, and astrophysics from a fangirl–the lecture is an exploration of literary craft and labels that exist within, and in defiance of, the eye of an observer.

While weaving in and out of what is fiction and what is family memoir in one particular story, the lecture also demonstrates pop culture as a new modern myth in language and experience, the vehicle of science fiction in mediums of comics and prose, and different faucets of marginalization, including in publishing, with a particular focus on the Latino/a/x/e and Puerto Rican/Nuyorican experience.

Great for classroom reads of “Jean”, those with an interest in Latinx literature, and fans of small press and chapbooks.

This printed version includes reference notes for cited works and pop culture, much asked for at Chautauqua.

Publishing October 2023.

Chapbook: ISBN 978-1-958077-05-4

Ebook (pdf): ISBN 978-1-958077-06-1

Curious? You can view the recorded lecture on youtube.

Janus god cart by Aaron Guzman

Spot illustrations by ANDROMEDA

Book Design Stephanie Nina Pitsirilos