Blue Hand Mojo #1 (eBook)

John Jennings (Autor)

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2022
32 Seiten
Rosarium Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-4956-1767-6 (ISBN)

Infos

1931. Bronzeville. Chicago. The mage, Frank Half Dead Johnson, is a marked man. Literally. A drunken decision fueled by tragedy has left him with half a soul, sorcerous powers, and two centuries to work off his debt to Scratch (aka The Devil) himself. Half-Dead is visited by a demon from his past who wants him to take on a very dangerous demon today.John Jennings is a professor, author, graphic novelist, curator, Harvard Fellow, New York Times Bestseller, 2018 Eisner Winner, and all-around champion of Black culture.As Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California at Riverside (UCR), Jennings examines the visual culture of race in various media forms including film, illustrated fiction, and comics and graphic novels. He is also the director of Abrams ComicArts imprint Megascope, which publishes graphic novels focused on the experiences of people of color. His research interests include the visual culture of Hip Hop, Afrofuturism and politics, Visual Literacy, Horror, and the EthnoGothic, and Speculative Design and its applications to visual rhetoric.Jennings is co-editor of the 2016 Eisner Award-winning collection The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art (Rutgers) and co-founder/organizer of The Schomburg Centers Black Comic Book Festival in Harlem. He is co-founder and organizer of the MLK NorCals Black Comix Arts Festival in San Francisco and also SOL-CON: The Brown and Black Comix Expo at the Ohio State University.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.8.2022
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Comic / Humor / Manga
• Schlagworte: afrofuturism • chicago gangster • Comics • Constantine • Graphic Novel • Horror • Noir • Private Eye
• ISBN-10: 1-4956-1767-X / 149561767X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4956-1767-6 / 9781495617676