The annual panel at Comic-Con celebrating Chicano Popular Arts and Comics will focus this year on the theme of Breaking Borders—between nations, between communities, between art forms and between peoples. This year, Athenaeum Arts Logan curator Daniela Kelly will be moderating and introducing Mexican graphic novelist Claudia Dominguez, author of More Than Money, a harrowing memoir that documents the author’s father’s kidnapping in Mexico City. Also on the panel are Joaquin Junco: San Diego-based political cartoonist now assisting co-exhibitor Lalo Alcaraz on his award-winning syndicated newspaper strip 'La Cucaracha’; Mario Torero Chicano Artist, activist, muralist and this year’s inductee into the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian; and, from SDSU, Professor and Amatl Comics publisher William A. Nericcio, (Amatl is SDSU Press’s new publishing imprint).



Note: There is an ongoing exhibition of her graphic novel More Than Money at the Athenaeum Art Center in Barrio Logan coinciding with the first week of Comic-Con.



The Tularosa Gallery will be exhibiting original works by the Breaking Borders panelists including Lalo Alcaraz, Joaquin Junco, Claudia Dominguez, and Mario Torero as well as border artist Jose Hugo Sánchez Jimenez.



Chicano art is an American art form with a rich tradition of story-telling murals, art, cartoons and comics. Recently there's been a great deal of controversy in the news regarding the crossing of borders, and Central American political refugees, as to who does and does not have the right to reside in America. Comic book artists and cartoonists or all stripes are confronting and bringing light to this issue for humanitarian reasons and through these efforts are raising money for the Border Angels, the border relief organization.