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A fearless graphic novel that is both a page-turning mystery and a disturbing exploration of race and self-image in America
Vertigo
February 2008
On Sale: February 6, 2008
Featuring: Zane Pinchback
136 pages
ISBN: 140121097X
EAN: 9781401210977
Hardcover
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Graphic Novel
Writer Mat Johnson (HELLBLAZER: PAPA MIDNITE), winner of the
prestigious Hurston-Wright Legacy Award for fiction,
constructs a fearless graphic novel that is both a
page-turning mystery and a disturbing exploration of race
and self-image in America, masterfully illustrated with rich
period detail by Warren Pleece (THE INVISIBLES, HELLBLAZER). In the early 20th Century, when lynchings were commonplace
throughout the American South, a few courageous reporters
from the North risked their lives to expose these
atrocities. They were African-American men who, due to their
light skin color, could pass among the white folks. They
called this dangerous assignment going incognegro. Zane Pinchback, a reporter for the New York-based New
Holland Herald, barely escapes with his life after his
latest incognegro story goes bad. But when he returns to the
sanctuary of Harlem, he's sent to investigate the arrest of
his own brother, charged with the brutal murder of a white
woman in Mississippi. With a lynch mob already swarming, Zane must stay incognegro
long enough to uncover the truth behind the murder in order
to save his brother and himself. He finds that the answers
are buried beneath layers of shifting identities, forbidden
passions and secrets that run far deeper than skin color.
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