This tenth anniversary edition of the acclaimed and fearless graphic novel features enhanced toned art, an afterword by Mat Johnson, character sketches, and other additional material. In the early 20th Century, when lynchings were commonplace throughout the American South, a few courageous reporters from the North risked their lives to expose these atrocities. They were African-American men who, due to their light skin color, could "pass" among the white folks. They called this dangerous assignment going "incognegro."
Zane Pinchback, a reporter for the New York-based New Holland Herald, is sent to investigate the arrest of his own brother, charged with the brutal murder of a white woman in Mississippi. With a lynch mob already swarming, Zane must stay "incognegro" long enough to uncover the truth behind the murder in order to save his brother -- and himself. Suspenseful, unsettling and relevant,
Incognegro is a tense graphic novel of shifting identities, forbidden passions, and secrets that run far deeper than skin color.
Author: Mat Johnson
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Berger Books
Published: 02/06/2018
Pages: 136
Weight: 1.1lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.90w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781506705644
About the AuthorMat Johnson is the author of the novels
Loving Day,
Pym, Drop, and
Hunting in Harlem, the nonfiction novella T
he Great Negro Plot, and the graphic novels,
Incognegro and
Dark Rain. He is a recipient of the United States Artist James Baldwin Fellowship, The Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature, and is a Regular Contributor on NPR's
Fresh Air. Mat Johnson is a Professor at the University of Houston Creative Writing Program.
Warren Pleece is a comic book artist mostly known for his work on DC Comics Vertigo imprint for titles such as
Deadenders,
Hellblazer and
Incognegro. As well as having worked for the magazine
2000AD, Titan comics
Doctor Who series and for numerous publishers including Jonathan Cape, Macmillan and Simon and Shuster, he is also co-creator of comic magazine,
Velocity, the graphic novels
The Great Unwashed,
Montague Terrace and the web series,
Alby Figgs.