Image To Reprint Eisner Award-Winning ‘All Negro Comics: America’s First Black Comic Book’

Image Comics is bringing the Eisner Award-winning All-Negro Comics: America’s First Black Comic Book back to print. Curated by writer/editor Chris Robinson, the new edition will feature bonus essays, a discussion guide for educators, and even new comics by notable Black comics creators.

“I’m so proud to finally bring this award-winning collection to the widest possible audience with the help of Image Comics,” said Robinson via press release. “How often do we get to spotlight a bonafide piece of American history like this?”

Included in the new paperback edition are essays, comics, and prose from, per PR from Image:

• Eisner Award-winner Dr. Qiana Whitted (EC Comics: Race, Shock, and Social Protest)
• David Brothers (Good Devils: Don’t Play Fair with Evil), Shawn Pryor (Fast Break)
• Micah Peters (The Ringer), Zipporah Smith (DC Power: Rise of the Power Company)
• Samantha Guzmán (short story writer of “Visibly Invisible” and more)
• Eisner, Harvey, and Ringo nominated letterer Deron Bennett (DC Power 2024)
• Jasmine Hatcher (Lady Nefertitii’s Kaleidoscope)
• Sharean Morishita (School Memories)
• Tony Washington (New York Times bestselling, Eisner Award-winning artist, lead illustrator for the ACLU of San Diego)
• Ray-Anthony Height (Midnight Tiger)
• Manny Edeko (Fiyah magazine)
• Domo Stanton (Sandman Universe: House of Whispers)
• Ryan Marlow
• Chris Robinson

In addition, the book will feature “unabridged and digitally remastered work of Orrin C. Evans, George J. Evans Jr., John H.Terrell, William H. Smith, and Leonard Cooper, which make up the original 1947 release.”

Back in the Golden Age of comics, Evans and a team of Black cartoonists created the first comic book anthology featuring original Black characters. Those include Ace Harlem and Lion Man, and Evans was posthumously honored for the achievement with the ECBACC Pioneer Lifetime Achievement Award. He was also inducted into the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 2014.

The new edition of All-Negro Comics: America’s First Black Comic Book will hit comic book shops on October 22 and bookstores on November 4.

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