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John Jennings
Author
Publisher
Abrams ComicArts - Megascope
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
126 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
After the Rain' is a graphic novel adaptation of Nnedi Okorafor's short story "On the Road." The drama takes place in a small Nigerian town during a violent and unexpected storm. A Nigerian-American woman named Chioma answers a knock at her door and is horrified to see a boy with a severe head wound standing at her doorstep. He reaches for her, and his touch burns like fire. Something is very wrong. Haunted and hunted, Chioma must embrace her heritage...
Author
Publisher
Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
167 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
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Description
The ghost of fifteen-year-old Alfonso Jones travels in a New York subway car full of the living and the dead, watching his family and friends fight for justice after he is killed by an off-duty police officer while buying a suit in a Midtown department store.
Author
Series
Publisher
Abrams ComicArts
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
v, 266 pages : chiefly illustrations (colour) ; 25 cm
Language
English
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Description
In the year 2024, the country is marred by unattended environmental and economic crises that lead to social chaos. Lauren Olamina, a preacher's daughter living in Los Angeles, is protected from danger by the walls of her gated community. However, in a night of fire and death, what begins as a fight for survival soon leads to something much more: a startling vision of human destiny . . . and the birth of a new faith.
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
ix, 343 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
When many think of comic books the first thing that comes to mind are caped crusaders and spandex-wearing super-heroes. Perhaps, inevitably, these images are of white men (and more rarely, women). It was not until the 1970s that African American superheroes such as Luke Cage, Blade, and others emerged. But as this exciting new collection reveals, these superhero comics are only one small component in a wealth of representations of black characters...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Comicarts
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
vi, 255 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Home is a new house with a loving husband in 1970s California that is suddenly transformed into the frightening world of the antebellum South. Dana, a young black writer, can't explain how she is transported across time and space to a plantation in Maryland. But she does quickly understand why: to deal with the troubles of Rufus, a conflicted white slaveholder - and her progenitor. Her survival, her very existence, depends on it. This searing graphic-novel...
Author
Series
Publisher
Abrams ComicArts
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
271 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this innovative collection of comics and essays, Rose Eveleth poses provocative questions about our future, which are brought to life in twelve brand-new comics, each by a different acclaimed artist. Eveleth then reports on what is complete fantasy and what is only just out of reach. Introducing compelling visions of our potential to progress or wreak destruction, [this book] reveals how complicated, incredible, frightening, and curious our future...
Author
Publisher
Abrams ComicArts
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
[Paperback edition].
Physical Desc
v, 281 pages : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In the year 2024, the country is marred by unattended environmental and economic crises that lead to social chaos. Lauren Olamina, a preacher's daughter living in Los Angeles, is protected from danger by the walls of her gated community. However, in a night of fire and death, what begins as a fight for survival soon leads to something much more: a startling vision of human destiny ... and the birth of a new faith.
Author
Publisher
Image Comics, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
526 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
For generations the Sangerye family has fought to protect the world from the evil plague of the hideous creatures born out of hate and racism. But now the family must face an even greater evil that has arisen to destroy humanity, and threatens to rip the family apart.
