Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction: “An Apt Cartoon” 1
4. Part I Iconographies of Race and Racism
5. 1 Rose O’Neill and Visual Tropes of Blackness 23
6. 2 The Passing Fancies of Krazy Kat 39
7. 3 “How Else Could I Have Created a Black Boy in That Era?”: Racial Caricature and Will Eisner’s Legacy 61
8. Part II Formal Innovation and Aesthetic Range
9. 4 Desegregating Black Art Genealogies: An Invitation 79
10. 5 Misdirections in Matt Baker’s Phantom Lady 95
11. 6 The Art of Alvin Hollingsworth 121
12. 7 “Hello Public!”: Jackie Ormes in the Print Culture of the Pittsburgh Courier 141
13. Part III Comics Readership and Respectability Politics
14. 8 “Never Any Dirty Ones”: Comics Readership among African American Youth in the Mid-Twentieth Century 163
15. 9 All-Negro Comics and Counterhistories of Race in the Golden Age 181
16. 10 “This Business of White and Black”: Captain Marvel’s Steamboat, the Youthbuilders, and Fawcett’s Roy Campanella, Baseball Hero 207
17. 11 Al Hollingsworth’s Kandy: Race, Colorism, and Romance in African American Newspaper Comics 227
18. Part IV Disrupting Genre, Character, and Convention
19. 12 Diabolical Master of Black Magic: Examining Agency through Villainy in “The Voodoo Man” 247
20. 13 Love in Color: Fawcett’s Revolutionary Negro Romance 261
21. 14 An Afrofuturist Legacy: Neil Knight and Black Speculative Capital 281
22. 15 “For They Were There!”: Dell Comics’ Lobo and the Black Cowboy in American Comic Books 297
23. Acknowledgments 319
24. Bibliography 321
25. Notes on Contributors 343
26. Index 349