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Author: Frances Gateward ,
John Jennings ,
Frances Gateward ,
John Jennings
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 2.80cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.708kg
ISBN: 9780813572345
ISBN 10: 0813572347
Pages: 356
Publication Date: 16 July 2015
Recommended Age: From 15 to 99 years
Audience:
College/higher education
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
A fascinating look at the growing complexity and diversity in representations of Blackness in comics, graphic novels and sequential art. --Bambi Haggins author of Laughing Mad: The Black Comic Persona in Post-Soul America (09/11/2014)
"""Like the comics selected for analysis, this collection of essays works to expand our understanding of the mediums of Blackness and comics. Through observant and meticulous close readings of comic books, newspaper comic strips, digital comics, and graphic novels, alongside the respective sociohistorical and cultural contexts of their production, dissemination, and consumption, the contributors shed light on overlooked and perhaps unknown cartoonists and stories from the past, provide new insight on well-known comics and histories, and challenge our understanding of what constitutes black comics."" * Cinema Journal * ""A fascinating look at the growing complexity and diversity in representations of Blackness in comics, graphic novels and sequential art."" -- Bambi Haggins * author of Laughing Mad: The Black Comic Persona in Post-Soul America * ""An essential guide for anyone interested in the intersections between race and comics, this volume is full of startling and original insights about the creators, comics, and graphic novels that represent people of African descent from the 1930s to the present."" -- Jonathan W. Gray * author of Civil Rights in the White Literary Imagination * ""This volume provides what has been lacking in some previous work—variety of content, precision of approach and execution, and depth of analyses … The Blacker the Ink advances the study of black comics significantly by offering new insights and a wealth of information free of gobbledygook ... Highly recommended."" * Choice * ""An important collection for academics and fan communities as we continue to expand scholarship on Black comics, their histories and their creators."" * Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics * ""The Blacker the Ink features an emerging methodology that may be characteristic of, and useful for, the continued development of black comics studies."" * Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature *"
The Blacker the Ink will likely remain an important collection for academics and fan communities as we continue to expand scholarship on Black comics, their histories and their creators. -The Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics
Like the comics selected for analysis, this collection of essays works to expand our understanding of the mediums of Blackness and comics. Through observant and meticulous close readings of comic books, newspaper comic strips, digital comics, and graphic novels, alongside the respective sociohistorical and cultural contexts of their production, dissemination, and consumption, the contributors shed light on overlooked and perhaps unknown cartoonists and stories from the past, provide new insight on well-known comics and histories, and challenge our understanding of what constitutes black comics. --Cinema Journal An essential guide for anyone interested in the intersections between race and comics, this volume is full of startling and original insights about the creators, comics, and graphic novels that represent people of African descent from the 1930s to the present. --Jonathan W. Gray author of Civil Rights in the White Literary Imagination An important collection for academics and fan communities as we continue to expand scholarship on Black comics, their histories and their creators. --Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics A fascinating look at the growing complexity and diversity in representations of Blackness in comics, graphic novels and sequential art. --Bambi Haggins author of Laughing Mad: The Black Comic Persona in Post-Soul America This volume provides what has been lacking in some previous work--variety of content, precision of approach and execution, and depth of analyses ... The Blacker the Ink advances the study of black comics significantly by offering new insights and a wealth of information free of gobbledygook ... Highly recommended. --Choice
An important collection for academics and fan communities as we continue to expand scholarship on Black comics, their histories and their creators.
Author Information
FRANCES GATEWARD is an associate professor in the department of cinema and television arts at California State University-Northridge. She is the editor of Seoul Searching: Cultural Identity and Cinema in South Korea. JOHN JENNINGS is a professor of media and cultural studies, University of California Riverside where he is Nasir Jones Hiphop Fellow. He is the author of Black Comix: African American Independent Comics, the award-winning graphic novel The Hole: Consumer Culture, and the national bestseller, Kindred, a graphic adaption of Octavia Butler's classic novel.
