He finds that the answers are buried beneath layers of shifting identities, forbidden passions and secrets that run far deeper than skin color. Incognegro Loving Day: Website : Mat Johnson (born Augin Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American fiction writer who works in both prose and the comics format. 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. (W) Mat Johnson (A/CA) Warren Pleece When a black writer is found dead at a scandalous interracial party in 1920s New York, Harlems cub reporter Zane. 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. 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. They were African-American men who, due to their light skin color, could "pass" among the white folks. 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. 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 Wareen Pleece (THE INVISIBLES, HELLBLAZER).
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