![]() | Black Women in Sequence: Re-inking Comics, Graphic Novels, and Anime Subjects: Comic books strips etc. -- History and criticism; African American women in literature; Africans in literature; Women in literature; Graphic novels -- History and criticism; Black Women in Sequence takes readers on a search for women of African descent in comics subculture. From the 1971 appearance of the Skywald Publications character "the Butterfly" - the first Black female superheroine in a comic book - to contemporary comic books, graphic novels, film, manga, and video gaming, a growing number of Black women are becoming producers, viewers, and subjects of sequential art. Deborah Elizabeth Whaley is associate professor of American studies and African American studies at the University of Iowa. She is the author of Disciplining Women: Alpha Kappa Alpha, Black Counterpublics, and the Cultural Politics of Black Sororities . |
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