This tenth anniversary edition of the acclaimed and fearless graphic
novel features enhanced toned art, an afterword by Mat Johnson,
character sketches, and other additional material.
In the early 20th Century, when lynchings were commonplace throughout
the American South, a few courageous reporters from the North risked
their lives to expose these atrocities. They were African-American men
who, due to their light skin color, could pass among the white folks.
They called this dangerous assignment going incognegro.
Zane Pinchback, a reporter for the New York-based New Holland Herald, is
sent to investigate the arrest of his own brother, charged with the
brutal murder of a white woman in Mississippi. With a lynch mob already
swarming, Zane must stay incognegro long enough to uncover the truth
behind the murder in order to save his brother -- and himself.
Suspenseful, unsettling and relevant, Incognegro is a tense graphic
novel of shifting identities, forbidden passions, and secrets that run
far deeper than skin color.