Incognegro: A Graphic Mystery (New Edition) - by Mat Johnson (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Black reporter Zane Pinchback goes undercover as a white man to investigate the arrest of his brother and save him from a lynch mob. This 10th anniversary edition features enhanced toned art, an Afterword by author Johnson, character sketches, and other additional material.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>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. <p/>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.</b> <p/>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, <i>Incognegro</i> is a tense graphic novel of shifting identities, forbidden passions, and secrets that run far deeper than skin color.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Mat Johnson is the author of the novels <i>Loving Day</i>, <i>Pym, </i> <i>Drop, </i> and <i>Hunting in Harlem</i>, the nonfiction novella T<i>he Great Negro Plot</i>, and the graphic novels, <i>Incognegro</i> and <i>Dark Rain</i>. 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 <i>Fresh Air</i>. Mat Johnson is a Professor at the University of Houston Creative Writing Program. <p/>Warren Pleece is a comic book artist mostly known for his work on DC Comics Vertigo imprint for titles such as <i>Deadenders</i>, <i>Hellblazer</i> and <i>Incognegro.</i> As well as having worked for the magazine <i>2000AD</i>, Titan comics <i>Doctor Who</i> series and for numerous publishers including Jonathan Cape, Macmillan and Simon and Shuster, he is also co-creator of comic magazine, <i>Velocity</i>, the graphic novels <i>The Great Unwashed</i>, <i>Montague Terrace</i> and the web series, <i>Alby Figgs</i>.
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