Description
Winner of the 2014 Will Eisner Award for Best Scholarly/Academic Work Bringing together contributors from a wide-range of critical perspectives, Black Comics: Politics of Race and Representation is an analytic history of the diverse contributions of Black artists to the medium of comics. Covering comic books, superhero comics, graphic novels and cartoon strips from the early 20th century to the present, the book explores the ways in which Black comic artists have grappled with such themes as the Black experience, gender identity, politics and social media. Black Comics: Politics of Race and Representation introduces students to such key texts as: The work of Jackie Ormes Black women superheroes from Vixen to Black Panther Aaron McGruder's strip The Boondocks
From superhero comics to satirical cartoons, this book surveys the work of Black comic artists from the early twentieth-century to today.
About the Author
Sheena C. Howard is Assistant Professor at Rider University, USA. Ronald L. Jackson II is Professor of Communication at the University of Cincinnati, USA, and Past Editor of the academic journal Critical Studies in Media Communication. His many previous publications include Scripting the Black Masculine Body and Interpreting Tyler Perry
Reviews
Overall, Black Comics is an extremely well rounded and impressive work of scholarship. Though this book spans a wide breadth of critical perspectives on various Black comic creators, its critical inquiry is focused and sustained. ... Black Comics is as an ambitious, essential text for any comics scholar and should be regarded as a canonical example of American comics scholarship. -- Francesca Lyn * ImageTexT *
Black Comics: Politics of Race and Representation" (Bloomsbury), edited by Howard and Ronald L. Jackson II, is an especially essential work because it not only holds a clear and illuminating mirror up to the faces we see on paper, but it also attaches faces and personal back-stories to black writers and artists - pioneers who are all too overlooked, who faced struggles all too forgotten. * Michael Cavna, Washington Post *
Awards
Winner of Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards for Best Scholarly/Academic Work 2014 (United States).
Book Information
ISBN 9781441135285
Author Dr Sheena C. Howard
Format Paperback
Page Count 288
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic USA
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Weight(grams) 408g
From superhero comics to satirical cartoons, this book surveys the work of Black comic artists from the early twentieth-century to today.
About the Author
Sheena C. Howard is Assistant Professor at Rider University, USA. Ronald L. Jackson II is Professor of Communication at the University of Cincinnati, USA, and Past Editor of the academic journal Critical Studies in Media Communication. His many previous publications include Scripting the Black Masculine Body and Interpreting Tyler Perry
Reviews
Overall, Black Comics is an extremely well rounded and impressive work of scholarship. Though this book spans a wide breadth of critical perspectives on various Black comic creators, its critical inquiry is focused and sustained. ... Black Comics is as an ambitious, essential text for any comics scholar and should be regarded as a canonical example of American comics scholarship. -- Francesca Lyn * ImageTexT *
Black Comics: Politics of Race and Representation" (Bloomsbury), edited by Howard and Ronald L. Jackson II, is an especially essential work because it not only holds a clear and illuminating mirror up to the faces we see on paper, but it also attaches faces and personal back-stories to black writers and artists - pioneers who are all too overlooked, who faced struggles all too forgotten. * Michael Cavna, Washington Post *
Awards
Winner of Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards for Best Scholarly/Academic Work 2014 (United States).
Book Information
ISBN 9781441135285
Author Dr Sheena C. Howard
Format Paperback
Page Count 288
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic USA
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Weight(grams) 408g
