Introduction: the sweeter the Christmas / Frances Gateward and John Jennings -- "No sweat!": EC Comics, cold war censorship, and the troublesome colors of Judgment day / Daniel F. Yezbick -- Sex in Yop City: Ivorian femininity and masculinity in Abouet and Oubrerie's Aya / Sally McWilliams -- A post-colony in pieces: black pieces, white masks, and queer potentials in Unknown soldier / Patrick Walter -- Fashion in the funny papers: cartoonist Jackie Ormes's American look / Nancy Goldstein -- Graphic remix: the lateral appropriation of Black nationalism in Aaron McGruder's The Boomdocks / Robin R. Means Coleman and William Lafi Youmans -- American truths: Blackness and the American superhero / Consuela Francis -- Drawn into dialogue: comic book culture and the scene of controversy in Milestone Media's Icon / Andre Carrington -- Critical Afrofuturism: a case study in visual rhetoric, sequential art, and post-apocalyptic Black identity / Reynaldo Anderson -- Bare chests, silver tiaras, and removable Afros: the visual design of Black comic book superheroes / Blair Davis -- "Daddy Cool": Donald Goines's visual novel / Kinohi Nishikawa -- The blues tragicomic: constructing the Black folk subject in Stagger Lee / Qiana Whitted -- Provocation through polyphony: Kyle Baker's Nat Turner / Craig Fischer -- Performance geography: making space in Jeremy Love's Bayou, volume 1 / Hershini Bhana Young -- A secret history of miscegenation: Jeremy Corrigan and the Columbian Exposition of 1893 / James J. Ziegler -- It's a hero?: Black comics and satirizing subjection / Rebecca Wanzo.
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