Table of Contents
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INTRODUCTION
Qiana Whitted, An Apt Cartoon I. ICONOGRAPHIES OF RACE AND RACISM Ian Gordon, Rose O’Neill and Visual Tropes of Blackness Nicholas Sammond, The Passing Fancies of Krazy Kat Andrew J. Kunka, “How else could I have created a black boy in that era?”: Racial Caricature and Will Eisner’s Legacy |
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II. FORMAL INNOVATION AND AESTHETIC RANGE
Rebecca Wanzo, Desegregating Black Art Genealogies: An Invitation Chris Gavaler and Monalesia Earle, Misdirections in Matt Baker’s Phantom Lady Blair Davis, The Art of Alvin Hollingsworth Eli Boonin-Vail, “Hello Public!”: Jackie Ormes in the Print Culture of the Pittsburgh Courier |
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III. COMICS READERSHIP AND RESPECTABILITY POLITICS
Carol L. Tilley, “Never any dirty ones”: Comics Readership Among African American Youth in the Mid-20th Century Qiana Whitted, All-Negro Comics and Counterhistories of Race in the Golden Age Brian Cremins, “This business of white and black”: Captain Marvel’s Steamboat, the Youthbuilders, and Fawcett’s Roy Campanella, Baseball Hero Mora Beauchamp-Byrd, Al Hollingsworth’s Kandy: Race, Colorism, & Romance in African American Newspaper Comics |
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IV. DISRUPTING GENRE, CHARACTER, AND CONVENTION
Phillip Lamarr Cunningham, Diabolical Master of Black Magic: Examining Agency through Villainy in The Voodoo Man Jacque Nodell, Love in Color: Fawcett’s Revolutionary Negro Romance Julian C. Chambliss, An Afrofuturist Legacy: Neil Knight and Black Speculative Capital Mike Lemon, “For they were there!”: Dell Comic’s Lobo and the Black Cowboy in American Comic Books |
