In the spirit of the holiday, here are some pages from AFRICAN-AMERICAN CLASSICS, an anthology of stories and poem by early African-American writers, famed and obscure, into comics by a similarly talented range of cartoonists. A few sample pages:

Cover by Afua Richardson

“On Being Crazy” by Kyle Baker

“Two Americans” by Trevor Von Eeden

“The Goophered Grapevine” by Shepherd Hendrix


“The Castaways” by Glenn Brewer

“Becky” by Randy DuBurke

“Buyers of Dreams” by Leilani Hickerson

All illustrations ©2011 the respective artists