Mat Johnson is an American author working in both prose and the comics format. His writing often explores themes of identity and cultural intersection, maintaining a distinctive style that is both incisive and sensitive. Johnson delves deeply into the complexities of the human experience, offering readers a thought-provoking perspective on the world around them.
Devin grapples with profound grief following his mother's death, compounded by feelings of shame from his failed marriage and struggles with fatherhood. As he faces overwhelming debt, his life begins to unravel, leading him into a deep personal crisis.
The Delany, captained by the swashbuckling Bob, is orbiting Europa, studying its atmosphere, but the ship is divided into two factions. The "Bobs," loyal to their vain captain, clash with crew members Dwayne and Nalani, who are focused on the moon's surface. Dwayne and Nalani make a groundbreaking discovery when a drone captures images of a seemingly normal American city encased in a dome with a crack. As the crew investigates, they are drawn into New Roanoke, a city inhabited by generations of UFO abductees, reflecting a distorted version of American society. They find themselves amidst an election that could determine whether the residents should return to Earth. The dome's crack threatens to collapse, and the inhabitants face terror from "invisible things" that torment them, raising the central mystery of their existence. Through Nalani's journey in this mirrored world, the narrative explores polarized politics, existential dilemmas, and environmental concerns that resonate with our own reality. The fate of New Roanoke hangs in the balance, prompting questions about survival and the nature of their society.
Recently canned professor of American literature Chris Jaynes has just made a startling discovery: the manuscript of a crude slave narrative that confirms the reality of Edgar Allan Poe’s strange and only novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. Determined to seek out Tsalal, the remote island of pure and utter blackness that Poe describes, Jaynes convenes an all-black crew of six to follow Pym’s trail to the South Pole, armed with little but the firsthand account from which Poe derived his seafaring tale, a bag of bones, and a stash of Little Debbie snack cakes. Thus begins an epic journey by an unlikely band of adventurers under the permafrost of Antarctica, beneath the surface of American history, and behind one of literature’s great mysteries.
From Mat Johnson, writer of the acclaimed INCOGNEGRO, comes a graphic novel thriller set in the days after Hurricane Katrina. Two small-time ex-cons with big dreams get the idea that this would be the perfect time to rob a bank. Catch is, the bank is in New Orleans, and they're on parole in Houston. Now, as every sane person tries to get out of The Big Easy, Emmit and Dabny will do whatever it takes to get in.As they journey through a tide of human suffering, Dabny wants to help, and Emmit sees only the money. But a rogue commander of the ruthless security force "Dark Rain" has his sights set on taking down the same bank. If Emmit and Dabny don't outrace him, their last hope for a second chance could be washed away in the floodwaters – along with their lives.
In the early 20th century American South, courageous light-skinned African-American reporters risked their lives to expose the truth about lynchings through their undercover work, which they referred to as 'going incognegro'.
Spinning out from the popular 'Hellblazer' series, the origin of the master of all things voodoo, Papa Midnite, is finally revealed. Aimed at adults only, this graphic novel written by acclaimed novelist Mat Johnson also features the chain-smoking jaded mystic John Constantine.