title: Black Comics: Politics of Race and Representation
author: Sheena C. Howard
description: Overall, <i>Black Comics</i> 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. ... <i>Black Comics</i> is as an ambitious, essential text for any comics scholar and should be regarded as a canonical example of American comics scholarship. Francesca Lyn, <i>ImageTexT</i>
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  Text © Sheena C. Howard 2017
  
  Cover design by John Jennings
  
  Edited by Larisa Hohenboken
  
  Image credits: title page (Afua Richardson [left], Professor W. Foster [top],
  Nancy Goldstein [right], Comic Strip Archives [bottom]).
  
  All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in
  any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying,
  recording, or by an information storage and retrieval system – except by a
  reviewer who may quote brief passages in a review – without permission in
  writing from the publisher.
  
  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
  
  Names: Howard, Sheena C., author. | Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., writer of
  foreword. | Priest, Christopher J. (Christopher James), 1961- writer of
  afterword.
  
  Title: Encyclopedia of black comics / Sheena Howard ; foreword by Henry Louis
  Gates, Jr. ; afterword by Christopher Priest.
  
  Description: Golden, CO : Fulcrum Publishing, [2017] | Includes index.
  
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