PAUL PEART-SMITH, an artist of Afro-Caribbean and British background, has been working in the comics industry since the early 1990s, when he worked on Judge Dredd. Co-curator of the comics exhibition Black Power, he now lives in Tasmania.   PAUL BUHLE has been a key creative force in the development of comics for more than fifty years, publishing one of the first alternative comics, as well as editing graphic novels on subjects ranging from the Wobblies to Che Guevara. He is the coeditor of Ballad of an American: A Graphic Biography of Paul Robeson (Rutgers University Press). HERB BOYD is a veteran journalist of African American life and culture, working frequently with artists. JONATHAN SCOTT HOLLOWAY is the twenty-first president of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. He is the author of The Cause of Freedom: A Concise History of African Americans.

"[A] masterful graphic adaptation and edited interpretation...[I]n their stylistic and artistic representation of Du Bois's Souls of Black Folk, Peart-Smith, Buhle, and Boyd provide the public and the world of academia with a stellar presentation and remembrance of Du Bois's pungent polemic and profound prophecy."— Patrick Delices, Portside"In this wonderfully innovative collaboration of image and text, Buhle, Boyd, and Peart-Smith present a graphic W.E.B. Du Bois whose immemorial words are so brilliantly visualized that Souls will speak to generations to come. Buhle, Boyd, and Peart-Smith's offering is superb."— David Levering Lewis, Pulitzer Prize recipient for W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919"[A] masterpiece...Peart-Smith's work in this text expresses the pain, frustration and the joy DuBois' text is known for. The art is both realistic and dreamlike....This retelling of The Souls of Black Folk deserves a place among the pantheon of great graphic texts like Art Spiegelman's Maus and Alan Moore's The Watchmen." — Ron Jacobs, CounterPunch"An incredible achievement. This work makes Du Bois accessible in whole new ways and does so with great pathos and sensitivity. I don't know how you can read this book and not be moved and outraged. Outraged, because it's all still so relevant. That I have to type that gives me a vertiginous feeling, but it's true, and in that sense, it's incredibly timely."— Nick Abadzis, author of Laika

• Introduction by Jonathan Scott HollowayI Of Our Spiritual Strivings II Of the Dawn of Freedom III Of Booker T. Washington IV Of the Meaning of ProgressV Of the Training of Black Folk VI Of the Passing of the First-BornVII Of Alexander Crummell VIII Of the Coming of John IX Of the Sorrow Songs Afterword AcknowledgmentsFurther ReadingNotes on Contributors

PAUL PEART-SMITH, an artist of Afro-Caribbean and British background, has been working in the comics industry since the early 1990s, when he worked on Judge Dredd. Co-curator of the comics exhibition Black Power, he now lives in Tasmania.   PAUL BUHLE has been a key creative force in the development of comics for more than fifty years, publishing one of the first alternative comics, as well as editing graphic novels on subjects ranging from the Wobblies to Che Guevara. He is the coeditor of Ballad of an American: A Graphic Biography of Paul Robeson (Rutgers University Press). HERB BOYD is a veteran journalist of African American life and culture, working frequently with artists. JONATHAN SCOTT HOLLOWAY is the twenty-first president of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. He is the author of The Cause of Freedom: A Concise History of African Americans.

"[A] masterful graphic adaptation and edited interpretation...[I]n their stylistic and artistic representation of Du Bois's Souls of Black Folk, Peart-Smith, Buhle, and Boyd provide the public and the world of academia with a stellar presentation and remembrance of Du Bois's pungent polemic and profound prophecy."— Patrick Delices, Portside"In this wonderfully innovative collaboration of image and text, Buhle, Boyd, and Peart-Smith present a graphic W.E.B. Du Bois whose immemorial words are so brilliantly visualized that Souls will speak to generations to come. Buhle, Boyd, and Peart-Smith's offering is superb."— David Levering Lewis, Pulitzer Prize recipient for W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919"[A] masterpiece...Peart-Smith's work in this text expresses the pain, frustration and the joy DuBois' text is known for. The art is both realistic and dreamlike....This retelling of The Souls of Black Folk deserves a place among the pantheon of great graphic texts like Art Spiegelman's Maus and Alan Moore's The Watchmen." — Ron Jacobs, CounterPunch"An incredible achievement. This work makes Du Bois accessible in whole new ways and does so with great pathos and sensitivity. I don't know how you can read this book and not be moved and outraged. Outraged, because it's all still so relevant. That I have to type that gives me a vertiginous feeling, but it's true, and in that sense, it's incredibly timely."— Nick Abadzis, author of Laika

• Introduction by Jonathan Scott HollowayI Of Our Spiritual Strivings II Of the Dawn of Freedom III Of Booker T. Washington IV Of the Meaning of ProgressV Of the Training of Black Folk VI Of the Passing of the First-BornVII Of Alexander Crummell VIII Of the Coming of John IX Of the Sorrow Songs Afterword AcknowledgmentsFurther ReadingNotes on Contributors

PAUL PEART-SMITH, an artist of Afro-Caribbean and British background, has been working in the comics industry since the early 1990s, when he worked on Judge Dredd. Co-curator of the comics exhibition Black Power, he now lives in Tasmania.   PAUL BUHLE has been a key creative force in the development of comics for more than fifty years, publishing one of the first alternative comics, as well as editing graphic novels on subjects ranging from the Wobblies to Che Guevara. He is the coeditor of Ballad of an American: A Graphic Biography of Paul Robeson (Rutgers University Press). HERB BOYD is a veteran journalist of African American life and culture, working frequently with artists. JONATHAN SCOTT HOLLOWAY is the twenty-first president of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. He is the author of The Cause of Freedom: A Concise History of African Americans.

"[A] masterful graphic adaptation and edited interpretation...[I]n their stylistic and artistic representation of Du Bois's Souls of Black Folk, Peart-Smith, Buhle, and Boyd provide the public and the world of academia with a stellar presentation and remembrance of Du Bois's pungent polemic and profound prophecy."— Patrick Delices, Portside"In this wonderfully innovative collaboration of image and text, Buhle, Boyd, and Peart-Smith present a graphic W.E.B. Du Bois whose immemorial words are so brilliantly visualized that Souls will speak to generations to come. Buhle, Boyd, and Peart-Smith's offering is superb."— David Levering Lewis, Pulitzer Prize recipient for W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919"[A] masterpiece...Peart-Smith's work in this text expresses the pain, frustration and the joy DuBois' text is known for. The art is both realistic and dreamlike....This retelling of The Souls of Black Folk deserves a place among the pantheon of great graphic texts like Art Spiegelman's Maus and Alan Moore's The Watchmen." — Ron Jacobs, CounterPunch"An incredible achievement. This work makes Du Bois accessible in whole new ways and does so with great pathos and sensitivity. I don't know how you can read this book and not be moved and outraged. Outraged, because it's all still so relevant. That I have to type that gives me a vertiginous feeling, but it's true, and in that sense, it's incredibly timely."— Nick Abadzis, author of Laika

• Introduction by Jonathan Scott HollowayI Of Our Spiritual Strivings II Of the Dawn of Freedom III Of Booker T. Washington IV Of the Meaning of ProgressV Of the Training of Black Folk VI Of the Passing of the First-BornVII Of Alexander Crummell VIII Of the Coming of John IX Of the Sorrow Songs Afterword AcknowledgmentsFurther ReadingNotes on Contributors