Black Images in the Comics

by Fredrik Strömberg

Book Overview

This book spotlights over 100 comic strips, comic books, and graphic novels to feature black characters from all over the world over the last century, and the result is a fascinating journey to, if not enlightenment, then at least away from the horrendous caricatures of yore.

The book begins with the habitually appalling images of blacks as ignorant "coons" in the earliest syndicated strips (Happy Hooligan, Moon Mullins, and The Katzenjammer...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1606995626
• ISBN13: 9781606995624
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 7.4"
• Age Range: 16 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 11 and higher