Mat Johnson

En la semana previa a un gran discurso de campaña, el Servicio Secreto descubre que una milicia extremista pretende asesinar al segundo Presidente afroamericano de los Estados Unidos.La mejor opción para evitar esta crisis es infiltrar en ese grupo a Ted Akers, un heroe de guerra convertido en comentarista de los medios conservadores. Aunque la vision politica de Akers le convierte en un heroe para la extrema derecha y le enemista con el Gobierno actual, el acepta la mision, y lo que viene a continuacion es una emocionante carrera contra el tiempo para evitar que muera un Presidente y un pais quede despedazado.

Mira al pasado para reconstruir el futuro. Algunos creen que solo es una leyenda, un viejo relato contado por esclavos. Pero el hombre llamado Papa Midnite es más que un mito... es alguien envuelto por el misticismo de la antigua África. Durante tres siglos sufre la maldición que le lleva a caminar por La Tierra en medio de sangre y destrucción, esperando pagar la deuda que tiene con un pueblo al que traicionó hace tiempo. La espera ha terminado. Los secretos del que fuera peor enemigo de John Constantine quedan revelados en una historia que combina la brutalidad de la esclavitud con la maravilla de la magia y el poder del pasado. Este recopilatorio incluye los cinco números originales de la miniserie Hellblazer Special: Papa Midnite, de Matt Johnson, Tony Akins y Dan Green, quienes traen a la luz un relato de magia y venganza que detalla uno de los capítulos de la historia de EEUU que todo el mundo quería olvidar.

Overwhelmed with grief over the death of his mother, shamed by his failures in marriage and fatherhood, and burdened by massive debt, Devins life is spiraling out of control.That is, until he discovers the impossible: nostalgia is his superpower.With a random touch of family memorabilia, he can mentally travel back in time, reliving the best moments of his past while finding relief from the present.With his mother gone, Devin can now investigate her greatest secret: the identity of the father he never knew. But the more Devin "backflashes" into time, the faster his present life falls apart. On this hunt for a truth that was never supposed to come to light, Devin must come to terms with his past if he wants any chance at a future.By Mat Johnson, the author of Pym, Loving Day, and Incognegro, Backflash is a riveting literary graphic novel thriller laced with sly humor and raw emotion that explores time travel in wild and un-predictable ways.

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.

A page-turning thriller of racial divide, Incognegro: Renaissance explores segregation, secrets and self-image as our race-bending protagonist penetrates a world where he feels stranger than ever before.When a black writer is found dead at a scandalous interracial party in 1920s New York, Harlems cub reporter Zane Pinchback is the only one determined to solve the murder. Zane must go "Incognegro" for the first time, using his light appearance to pass as a white man to find the true killer, in this prequel miniseries to the critically acclaimed Vertigo graphic novel, now available in a special new 10th Anniversary Edition.With a cryptic manuscript as his only clue, and a mysterious and beautiful woman as the murders only witness, Zane finds himself on the hunt through the dark and dangerous streets of "roaring twenties" Harlem in search for justice. In a time when looks could kill . . . Zanes skin is the only thing keeping him alive.

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK [Mat Johnsons] unrelenting examination of blackness, whiteness and everything in between is handled with ruthless candor and riotous humor.Los Angeles Times Razor-sharp . . . Loving Day is that rare melange: cerebral comedy with pathos.The New York Times Book Review NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYThe New York Times San Francisco Chronicle NPR Mens Journal The Miami Herald The Denver Post Slate The Kansas City Star San Antonio Express-News Time Out New York Warren Duffy has returned to America for all the worst reasons: His marriage to a beautiful Welsh woman has come apart; his comics shop in Cardiff has failed; and his Irish American father has died, bequeathing to Warren his last possession, a roofless, half-renovated mansion in the heart of black Philadelphia. On his first night in his new home, Warren spies two figures outside in the grass. When he screws up the nerve to confront them, they disappear. The next day he encounters ghosts of a different kind: In the face of a teenage girl he meets at a comics convention he sees the mingled features of his white father and his black mother, both now dead. The girl, Tal, is his daughter, and shes been raised to think shes white. Spinning from these revelations, Warren sets off to remake his life with a reluctant daughter hes never known, in a haunted house with a history he knows too well. In their search for a new life, he and Tal struggle with ghosts, fall in with a utopian mixed-race cult, and ignite a riot on Loving Day, the unsung holiday for interracial lovers. A frequently hilarious, surprisingly moving story about blacks and whites, fathers and daughters, the living and the dead, Loving Day celebrates the wonders of opposites bound in love.Praise for Loving Day Incisive . . . razor-sharp . . . that rare melange: cerebral comedy with pathos. The vitality of our narrator deserves much of the credit for that. He has the neurotic bawdiness of Philip Roths Alexander Portnoy; the keen, caustic eye of Bob Jones in Chester Himess If He Hollers Let Him Go; the existential insight of Ellisons Invisible Man.The New York Times Book ReviewExceptional . . . To say that Loving Day is a book about race is like saying Moby-Dick is a book about whales. . . . [Mat Johnsons] unrelenting examination of blackness, whiteness and everything in between is handled with ruthless candor and riotous humor. . . . Even when the novels family strife and racial politics are at peak intensity, Johnsons comic timing is impeccable.Los Angeles TimesJohnson, at his best, is a powerful comic observer [and] a gifted writer, always worth reading on the topics of race and privilege.Dwight Garner, The New York Times

A sharp allegorical novel about a hidden human civilization, a crucial election, and a mysterious invisible force that must not be named, by one of our most imaginative comic novelistsLONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington PostWhen sociologist Nalini Jackson joins the SS Delany for the first manned mission to Jupiter, all she wants is a career opportunity: the chance to conduct the first field study of group dynamics on long-haul cryoships. But what she discovers instead is an entire city encased in a bubble on Europa, Jupiters largest moon. Even more unexpected, Nalini and the rest of the crew soon find themselves abducted and joining its captive population, forced to start new lives in a place called New Roanoke. New Roanoke is a city riven by wealth inequality and governed by a feckless, predatory elite, its economy run on heedless consumption and income inequality. But in other ways its different from the cities we already know: its covered by an enormous dome, its populated by alien abductees, and it happens to be terrorized by an invisible entity so disturbing that no one even dares acknowledge its existence. Albuquerque chauffer Chase Eubanks is pretty darn sure aliens stole his wife. People mock him for saying that, but he doesnt care who knows it. So when his philanthropist boss funds a top-secret rescue mission to save New Roanokes abductees, Chase jumps at the chance to find her. The plan: Get the astronauts out and provide the population with the tech they need to escape this alien world. The reality: Nothing is ever simple when dealing with the complex, contradictory, and contrarian impulses of everyday earthlings. This is a madcap, surreal adventure into a Jovian mirror world, one grappling with the same polarized politics, existential crises, and mass denialism that obsess and divide our own. Will New Roanoke survive? Will we?

THE SHARPEST AND MOST UNUSUAL STORY I READ LAST YEAR . . . [Mat] Johnsons satirical vision roves as freely as Kurt Vonneguts and is colored with the same sort of passionate humanitarianism.Maud Newton, New York Times MagazineNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post Vanity Fair Houston Chronicle The Seattle Times Salon National Post The A.V. Club Recently canned professor of American literature Chris Jaynes has just made a startling discovery: the manuscript of a crude slave narrative that confirms the reality of Edgar Allan Poes strange and only novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. Determined to seek out Tsalal, the remote island of pure and utter blackness that Poe describes, Jaynes convenes an all-black crew of six to follow Pyms trail to the South Pole, armed with little but the firsthand account from which Poe derived his seafaring tale, a bag of bones, and a stash of Little Debbie snack cakes. Thus begins an epic journey by an unlikely band of adventurers under the permafrost of Antarctica, beneath the surface of American history, and behind one of literatures great mysteries. Outrageously entertaining, [Pym] brilliantly re-imagines and extends Edgar Allan Poes enigmatic and unsettling Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. . . . Part social satire, part meditation on race in America, part metafiction and, just as important, a rollicking fantasy adventure . . . reminiscent of Philip Roth in its seemingly effortless blend of the serious, comic and fantastic.Michael Dirda, The Washington PostBlisteringly funny.Laura Miller, SalonRelentlessly entertaining.The New York Times Book ReviewImagine Kurt Vonnegut having a beer with Ralph Ellison and Jules Verne.Vanity FairScreamingly funny . . . Reading Pym is like opening a big can of whoop-ass and then marvelinggleefullyat all the mayhem that ensues.Houston Chronicle