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Incognegro: A Graphic Mystery by Mat/ Pleece, Warren (ILT) Johnson is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Incognegro: A Graphic Mystery about?

"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). 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.”" From Publishers Weekly The brows are furrowed and teeth mightily clenched in Pleece's noirish artwork for Johnson's pulpy tale of a black journalist who goes undercover in the 1930s South to investigate a possible trumped-up murder charge against his brother—a charge that could lead to a lynching. Zane Pinchback, who is so light-skinned he can pass for white with a little cosmetic help, writes the Incognegro column for a Harlem newspaper, and his beat (like that of many a brave black journalist at the time)

Who reads Incognegro: A Graphic Mystery?

Author

Mat/ Pleece, Warren (ILT) Johnson

Publisher

Vertigo; Vertigo/DC Comics

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9781401210977

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Graphic Novel, Fiction

Rating

3.86 / 5 (1,523 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13