- Available Rights:
- Print – foreign
- Digital – worldwide
- 144 pages
- Color
- Recommended for readers 12 to adult
African-American Classics presents great stories and poems from America’s earliest black writers, illustrated by contemporary African-American artists. Featured are Two Americans by Florence Lewis Bentley, The Goophered Grapevine by Charles W. Chesnutt, Becky by Jean Toomer, two short plays by Zora Neale Hurston, and six more tales of humor and tragedy. Also eleven poems, including Langston Hughes’ Danse Africaine and The Negro, plus Paul Laurence Dunbar’s Sympathy (”I know why the caged bird sings… ”).
Art by Mac McGill, Trevor Von Eaden, Kyle Baker, Stan Shaw, Afua Richardson, Lance Tooks, Glenn Brewer, John Jennings, Arte Monroe, Jim Webb, Randy DuBurke, Kenjji, Larry Poncho Brown, Shepherd Hendrix, Kevin J. Taylor, Masheka Wood, Milton Knight, Jeremy Love, Titus V. Thomas, Jimmie Robinson and more.
“While ethnicity and the black experience in America are central themes in this anthology, they are by no means the only concerns… The influence of words, the beauty of poetry and the appeal of visual art combine into a reading experience that only graphic fiction can provide.”
— M. Thomas Inge, The Key Reporter
“This is an important book, and a very well done one.”
— John Hogan, Graphic Novel Reporter