Research Catalog

Title

African-American classics / edited by Tom Pomplun and Lance Tooks.

Publication

• Mount Horeb, Wis. : Eureka ; London : Diamond [distributor], [2011]
• ©2011

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Details

Additional Authors

• Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938
• Bentley, Florence Lewis
• Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963
• Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967
• Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Moore, 1875-1935
• McKay, Claude, 1890-1948
• Hurston, Zora Neale
• Bagnall, Robert W.
• Toomer, Jean, 1894-1967
• Corrothers, James David, 1869-1917
• Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906
• Caution, Ethel M
• Newsome, Effie Lee, 1885-1979
• Chesnutt, Charles W. (Charles Waddell), 1858-1932
• Pendleton, Leila Amos, 1860-
• Campbell, J. Edwin, 1867-1896
• Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins, 1825-1911
• Pomplun, Tom
• Tooks, Lance
• Richardson, Afua

Description

144 pages : chiefly color illustrations; 26 cm.

Summary

"Twenty-three stories and poems by America's earliest black authors, illustrated by contemporary black artists including: authors, Langston Hughes [and others]; adaptations, Alex Simmons, Christopher Priest, Mat Johnson; illustrators, Afua Richardson [et al.]"--Page 4 of cover.

Series Statement

Graphic classics ; v. 22

Uniform Title

Graphic classics ; v. 22.

Subject

• American literature > African American authors > Comic books, strips, etc
• African Americans > Comic books, strips, etc
• African Americans > Fiction
• Enslaved persons > United States > Comic books, strips, etc
• African American abolitionists > Biography
• Abolitionists > United States > Biography
• African American authors > Biography
• Enslaved persons' writings, American
• African Americans
• American literature > African American authors
• United States > Race relations > History > Comic books, strips, etc

Genre/Form

• Comics (Graphic works)
• Fiction.
• Graphic novels.

Audience (note)

• "Recommended for ages 12 to adult"--Page 4 of cover.

Contents

• The reward / James Weldon Johnson, illustrated by Mac McGill -- Two Americans / Florence Lewis Bentley, adapted by Alex Simmons, illustrated by Trevor Von Eeden, color by Adrian Johnson -- On being Crazy / W.E.B. Du Bois, adapted by Tom Pomplun, illustrated by Kyle Baker -- The negro / Langston Hughes, illustrated by Stan Shaw -- Danse Africaine / Langston Hughes / illustrated by Afua Richardson -- A carnival jangle / Alice Dunbar Nelson / adapted and illustrated by Lance Tooks -- The castaways / Claude McKay, illustrated by Glenn Brewer -- America / Claude McKay, illustrated by John Jennings -- Lawing and jawing / Zora Neale Hurston, adapted by Tom Pomplun, illustrated by Arie Monroe -- Lex Talionis / Robert W. Bagnall, adapted by Christopher Priest, illustrated by Jim Webb -- Becky / Jean Toomer, adapted by Mat Johnson, illustrated by Kenjji -- In the matter of two men / James D. Corrothers, illustrated by Kenjji -- Sympathy / by Paul Laurence Dunbar, illustrated by Lance Tooks.
• We wear the mask / Paul Laurence Dunbar, illustrated by Larry Poncho Brown -- Buyers of dreams / Ethel M. Caution, adapted by Tom Pomplun, illustrated by Leilani Hickerson -- The bronze legacy / Effie Lee Newsome, illustrated by Keith Mallett -- The Goophered grapevine / Charles W. Chesnutt / adapted by Alex Simmons, illustrated by Shepherd Hendrix -- Sanctum 777 N.S.D.C.O.U meets Cleopatra / Leila Amos Pendleton, adapted by Tom Pomplun, illustrated by Kevin J. Taylor -- De cunjah man / James Edwin Campbell, illustrated by Masheka Wood -- Filling station / Zora Neale Hurston, adapted by Tom Pomplun, illustrated by Milton Knight -- The ghost of Deacon Brown / James Weldon Johnson, illustrated by Jeremy Love -- Aunt Chloe's politics / Frances E.W. Harper, illustrated by Titus V. Thomas -- Shalmanezer / Frances E.W. Harper, adapted & illustrated by Lance Tooks.

Call Number

Sc F 18-85

ISBN

• 9780982563045
• 0982563043

OCLC

751752024

Title

African-American classics / edited by Tom Pomplun and Lance Tooks.

Publisher

Mount Horeb, Wis. : Eureka ; London : Diamond [distributor], [2011]

Copyright Date

©2011

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Graphic classics ; v. 22

Graphic classics ; v. 22.

Audience

"Recommended for ages 12 to adult"--Page 4 of cover.

Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938, author.

Bentley, Florence Lewis, author.

Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963, author.

Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967, author.

Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Moore, 1875-1935, author.

McKay, Claude, 1890-1948, author.

Hurston, Zora Neale, author.

Bagnall, Robert W., author.

Toomer, Jean, 1894-1967, author.

Corrothers, James David, 1869-1917, author.

Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906, author.

Caution, Ethel M, author.

Newsome, Effie Lee, 1885-1979, author.

Chesnutt, Charles W. (Charles Waddell), 1858-1932, author.

Pendleton, Leila Amos, 1860-

Campbell, J. Edwin, 1867-1896, author.

Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins, 1825-1911, author.

Pomplun, Tom, editor.

Tooks, Lance, editor, illustrator.

Richardson, Afua, illustrator.

Research Call Number

Sc F 18-85