by Dr. Velebita Koričančić, Mexico City   A dehydrated ecosystem appears as an illness affecting the collective body in Brenda Larusso’s Cánidos  (2024), published by the Fondo de Cultura Económica after the book won Mexico’s National Young Graphic Novel Award in 2022.[i] Dedicated poignantly “To those who have experienced thirst,” Cánidos (“Canidae” or “Canines”) is an almost wordless narrative of drought and forced migration, but also survival, offering a striking intervention in contemporary Latin American sequential art. With text limited largely to paratextual elements (the title, chapter numbers, and back-cover synopsis), Cánidos uses the comics page to address ecological crisis…. Read More