All Your Racial Problems Will Soon End Thames & Hudson Forward bristles with textual honesty

Forward bristles with textual honesty and often highly charged

and absolutely absorbing

I can't think of too many works that totally justify the odd share of attention comics have gotten in recent years

The central character of Set to Sea is a big lug and an aspiring poet who runs up tabs at the local bars by day and haunts the docks by night

All Your Racial Problems Will Soon End Thames & Hudson Forward bristles with textual honestyBy Charles Johnson. Published by New York Review Comics. Hardcover, 280 pages, B&W, 2022. Before Charles Johnson found fame as a novelist and won the National Book Award for Middle Passage in 1991, he was a cartoonist, and a very good one. Taught via correspondence course by the comics editor Lawrence Lariar, mentored by the New Yorker cartoonist Charles Barsotti, and inspired by the call of the poet Amiri Baraka to celebrate and depict Black life in