Winner of the 2014 Will Eisner Award for top Scholarly/Academic Work.
Bringing jointly members from a wide-range of severe views, Black Comics: Politics of Race and Representation is an analytic background of the various contributions of Black artists to the medium of comics. protecting comedian books, superhero comics, photo novels and comic strip strips from the early twentieth century to the current, the booklet explores the ways that Black comedian artists have grappled with such topics because the Black adventure, gender id, politics and social media.
Black Comics: Politics of Race and Representation introduces scholars to such key texts as:
The paintings of Jackie Ormes
Black ladies superheroes from Vixen to Black Panther
Aaron McGruder's strip The Boondocks
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