Black Women in Sequence: Re-inking Comics, Graphic Novels, and Anime

"As the first detailed investigation of Black women's participation in comic art, [this book] examines the representation, production, and transnational circulation of women of African descent in the sequential art world. In this ... study, which includes interviews with artists and writers, Deborah Whaley suggests that the treatment of the Black female subject in sequential art says much about the place of people of African descent in national ideology in the United States and abroad"--Page 4 of cover.