Sheena C. Howard is Assistant Professor at Rider University, USA. Ronald L. Jackson II is Professor of Communication at the University of Cincinnati, USA, and Past Editor of the academic journal Critical Studies in Media Communication. His many previous publications include Scripting the Black Masculine Body and Interpreting Tyler Perry

Overall, Black Comics is an extremely well rounded and impressive work of scholarship. Though this book spans a wide breadth of critical perspectives on various Black comic creators, its critical inquiry is focused and sustained. … Black Comics is as an ambitious, essential text for any comics scholar and should be regarded as a canonical example of American comics scholarship.

• Foreword, William Foster III Introduction, Sheena Howard and Ronald L. Jackson II Part I: Comics Then & Now 1. Brief History of The Black Comic Strip: Past and Present, Sheena C. Howard 2. The Trouble With Romance in Jackie Ormes's Comics, Nancy Goldstein 3. Contemporary Representations of Black Females in Newspaper Comic Strips, Tia C. M. Tyree 4. Black Comics and Social Media, Derek Lackaff and Michael Sales 5. Beyond B&W? The Global Manga of Felipe Smith, Casey Brienza Part II: Representing Race & Gender 6. Studying Black Comic Strips: Popular Culture, African American Repertoire, and Discourses of Race, Angela M. Nelson 7. Blowing Flames into the Souls of Black Folk: Ollie Harrington and his Bombs from Berlin to Harlem, Christian Davenport 8. Panthers and Vixens: Black Superheroines and Sexuality in Contemporary Comic Books, Jeffrey A. Brown 9. Gender, Race and The Boondocks, Sheena C. Howard 10. From Sexual Siren to Race Traitor: Condoleeza Rice in Political Cartoons, Clariza Ruiz De Castilla and Zazil Reyes Garcia Part III: Comics as Political Commentary 11. "There's a Revolutionary Messiah in Our Mist": A Pentadic Analysis of Birth of a Nation: A Comic Novel , Carlos D. Morrison and Ronald L. Jackson II 12. Inappropriate Political Content: Serialized Comic Strips at the Intersection of Visual Rhetoric and the Rhetoric of Humor, Elizabeth Sills 13. Will the "Real" Black Super Heroes Please Stand Up?!, Kenneth Ghee 14. Culturally Gatekeeping the Black Comic Strip, David DeIuliis Afterword, Jeet Heer Bibliography Index