#mat johnson

[stevelieber]

BACKFLASH is out today! It's a new graphic novel from Dark Horse Comics & Berger Books. Written by Mat Johnson (James Baldwin fellow, and winner of the Dos Passos prize.)

It's funny and sad and surprising. I loved drawing this book and I hope you'll love reading it.

[smashpages]

Mat Johnson + Steve Lieber explore family secrets + time travel in ‘Backflash’

The new graphic novel will debut from Dark Horse’s Berger Books imprint this fall.

[bellamysgriffin]

A QUOTE FROM EVERY BOOK I READ IN 2022: Pym by Mat Johnson

[theartofthecover]

John Constantine, Hellblazer Special: Papa Midnite #2 [Textless] (2005)

Art by: Ronald Wimberly

[draconian62]

Amazing Spider-Man: The Daily Bugle #2

[forasecondtherewedwon]

Novels for Black History Month 2020

In 2019, I made a list of great novels I’ve read by black authors. The other day, I received a new note on the post and, when I looked it up, it was a little scattered, so I’m reformatting and adding it to!

As I said last year:

One of the ways I recognize Black History Month is through my reading habits. Obviously, I don’t confine reading novels by black authors to one month out of the year, but each February, I make an effort to seek out these stories. As a lot of us on here are avid readers, I felt like sharing!

Recommendations:

Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan (historical, music, war)

The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma (I’d call it Nigerian Macbeth)

Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon (YA, romance)

The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill (historical)

Loving Day by Mat Johnson (contemporary, humour)

Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley (noir detective mystery)

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (historical, classic)

Fifteen Dogs by André Alexis (fantasy, but, like… with dogs?)

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi (historical, multi-generational)

New People by Danzy Senna (contemporary, identity)

Pride by Ibi Zoboi (YA, romance, retelling)

Rosewater by Tade Thompson (science fiction, fantasy)

If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin (classic/literary romance)

My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite (crime, thriller)

Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams (contemporary)

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (YA, contemporary)

The Turner House by Angela Flournoy (contemporary)

Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson (historical, contemporary)

My 2020 to-reads (note: some haven’t been published yet):

Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo (contemporary)

Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas (gothic thriller, May 2020)

Deacon King Kong by James McBride (historical/literary, Mar. 2020)

Black Sunday by Tola Rotimi Abraham (historical)

Trouble the Saints by Alaya Dawn Johnson (hist./fantasy, Jun. 2020)

Everywhere You Don’t Belong by Gabriel Bump (contemporary)

Frying Plantain by Zalika Reid-Benta (contemporary, short stories)

Real Life by Brandon Taylor (contemporary, Feb. 18th, 2020)

The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin (sci-fi, fantasy, Mar. 2020)

Black History Month is a reminder and an opportunity to listen, support, share, and applaude. If there’s a novel you feel passionate about it, recommend it to me! Tell me what I need to read!

I would love your suggestions!

[poetsandwriters]

One of the most profound things [Mat Johnson] said was to just relax. Readers can sense when you’re tense.

Bryan Washington on the best writing advice he’s heard; read the rest of this week’s Ten Questions at pw.org!

[blackscifimatters]

Being white in America comes with privileges, ones white folks don't even know they got since they've never not had them.

Incognegro: Renaissance

written by Mat Johnson

art by Warren Pleece