At Harlem's Cotton Club, the hottest scene in 1920s' New York, Harlem's cub reporter Zane Pinchback is on the hunt to find the femme fatale who left him for dead in the streets. To solve a murder, Zane must go ''Incognegro,'' using his light appearance to enter this ''white patrons only'' club and find the true killer. * For mature readers.
Mat Johnson is an American writer of literary fiction who works in both prose and the comics format. In 2007, he was named the first USA James Baldwin Fellow by United States Artists.
Johnson was born and raised in the Germantown and Mount Airy communities in Philadelphia.
His mother is African American and his father is Irish Catholic. He attended Greene Street Friends School, West Chester University, University of Wales, Swansea, and ultimately received his B.A. from Earlham College. In 1993 he was awarded a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship. Johnson received his M.F.A. from Columbia University School of the Arts (1999).
Johnson has taught at Rutgers University, Columbia University, Bard College, and The Callaloo Journal Writers Retreat. He is now a permanent faculty member at the University of Houston Creative Writing Program. Johnson lives in Houston.
I suppose this is the time to note, I read the first issue as a freebie and then picked up the other issues? (I read Incognegro itself after buying it last year).
This installment is good and addresses all types of issues. Johnson looks them in a convincing and non-condescending manner.