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Incognegro Series

This graphic novel series delves into suspenseful narratives exploring themes of identity, racism, and courage during harrowing periods of American history. The stories follow intrepid reporters who risk their lives to expose injustice and crime, often employing disguise and dual identities. These works are distinguished by their powerful visual storytelling and their examination of profound questions about justice and humanity.

Incognegro
Incognegro
Incognegro: Renaissance

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    Incognegro

    • 136 pages
    • 5 hours of reading
    4.2(384)Add rating

    This tenth anniversary edition of the acclaimed and fearless graphic novel features enhanced toned art, an afterword by Mat Johnson, character sketches, and other additional material. 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, is 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. Suspenseful, unsettling and relevant, Incognegro is a tense graphic novel of shifting identities, forbidden passions, and secrets that run far deeper than skin color.

    Incognegro
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    Incognegro

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    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'.

    Incognegro
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    Incognegro: Renaissance

    A page-turning thriller of racial divide, Incognegro: Renaissance explores segregation, secrets and self-image as our race-bending protagonist penetrates a world where he feels stranger than ever before. When a black writer is found dead at a scandalous interracial party in 1920s' New York, Harlem's cub reporter Zane Pinchback is the only one determined to solve the murder. Zane must go "Incognegro" for the first time, using his light appearance to pass as a white man to find the true killer, in this prequel miniseries to the critically acclaimed Vertigo graphic novel, now available in a special new 10th Anniversary Edition. With a cryptic manuscript as his only clue, and a mysterious and beautiful woman as the murder's only witness, Zane finds himself on the hunt through the dark and dangerous streets of "roaring twenties" Harlem in search for justice. In a time when looks could kill . . . Zane's skin is the only thing keeping him alive.

    Incognegro: Renaissance