The Blacker the Ink

Constructions of Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art

Author: Frances K. Gateward
Secondary Author: Frances Gateward
ISBN: 9780813572338

When many think of comic books the first thing that comes to mind are caped crusaders and spandex-wearing super-heroes. Perhaps, inevitably, these images are of white men (and more rarely, women). It was not until the 1970s that African American superheroes such as Luke Cage, Blade, and others emerged. But as this exciting new collection reveals, these superhero comics are only one small component in a wealth of representations of black characters within comic strips, comic books, and graphic novels over the past century.    The Blacker the Ink is the first book to explore not only the diverse range of black characters in comics, but also the multitude of ways that black artists, writers, and publishers have made a mark on the industry. Organized thematically into "panels" in tribute to sequential art published in the funny pages of newspapers, the fifteen original essays take us on a journey that reaches from the African American newspaper comics of the 1930s to the Francophone grap

Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Publish Date: 2015

Subjects: Comics & Graphic Novels / General, Literary Criticism / Comics & Graphic Novels, Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies

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