Comics and the U.S. South

Contents

Contents vii Introduction —Brannon Costello and Qiana J. Whitted i. The south in the National imagination 3 Li’l Abner, snuffy, and Friends The Appalachian South in the American Comic Strip —M. Thomas Inge 29 Bumbazine, Blackness, and the myth of the Redemptive south in Walt Kelly’s Pogo —Brian Cremins 62 southern super-Patriots and United states Nationalism Race, Region, and Nation in Captain America —Brannon Costello 89 “The southern Thing” Doug Marlette, Identity Consciousness, and the Commodification of the South —Christopher Whitby ii. Emancipation and Civil Rights Resistance 113 Drawing the Unspeakable Kyle Baker’s Slave Narrative —Conseula Francis vi Contents 138 “Black and White and Read All over” Representing Race in Mat Johnson and Warren Pleece’s Incognegro: A Graphic Mystery —Tim Caron 161 Everybody’s Graphic Protest Novel Stuck Rubber Baby and the Anxieties of Racial Difference —Gary Richards iii. The Horrors of the south 187 of slaves and other swamp Things Black Southern History as Comic Book Horror —Qiana J. Whitted 214 Crooked Appalachia The Laughter of the Melungeon Witches in Mike Mignola’s Hellboy: The Crooked Man —Joseph Michael Sommers 242 meat Fiction and Burning Western Light The South in Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon’s Preacher —Nicolas Labarre iV. Revisualizing stories, Rereading images 269 A Visitation of Narratives Dialogue and Comics in Randall Kenan’s A Visitation of Spirits —Alison Mandaville 293 A Re-Vision of the Record The Demands of Reading Josh Neufeld’s A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge —Anthony Dyer Hoefer 325 About the Contributors 329 Index ...