HIS BLACK BRAIN IN HER WHITE SKULL: FINGERMAN’S
WHITE LIKE SHE
New edition of graphic novel explores sexuality, gender, and race
Louella
Schwartz and Luther Albert Joyce — one a white teenage girl with a Ms.
magazine subscription, the other a middle-aged African-American man
who’s fallen on rough times. Their paths seem destined never to cross,
but, in an extraordinary set of circumstances, Luther’s brain ends up in
Louella’s body in WHITE LIKE SHE by Bob Fingerman (MINIMUM WAGE), which
gets a sleek new Image Comics edition in December.
Originally
published in 1993, Fingerman’s graphic novel is a cutting satire
exploring gender and race privilege with the creative abandon of a
grindhouse film.
"What
I’d set out to do was pulp with a message. Something Roger Corman might
have made in the early ’70s, hence the new Blaxploitation poster-style
cover,” wrote Fingerman in the Afterword of the new edition. “Really,
that’s what White Like She is — pulp that could use a little
more juice and pits. I still think it’s a fun idea; the beast with two
heads minus a head. Race, gender and body-swapping is a fun concept."
WHITE
LIKE SHE is a 136-page graphic novel with never-before-seen bonus
material. It will be in comic book stores on December 3 and in
bookstores on December 16. It is available for pre-order now.
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WHITE LIKE SHE by Bob Fingerman
- ISBN 978-1-63215-146-9
- Diamond Comic order code OCT140660
- 136 pages, paperback, black and white
- $14.99
- In comic book stores December 3, bookstores December 16
- Rated Mature
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Praise for WHITE LIKE SHE:
“A grim and ambitious work — very, very realisticially executed."
–Will Eisner
"If there were any justice in the world, fans of brain-related
entertainment would have their own glossy magazine... A comic as good as
White Like She would undoubtedly merit a cover story. Fingerman would be a god to these people."
–The Comics Journal
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ABOUT IMAGE COMICS
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by a collective of best-selling artists. Image has since gone on to
become one of the largest comics publishers in the United States. Image
currently has five partners: Robert Kirkman, Erik Larsen, Todd
McFarlane, Marc Silvestri and Jim Valentino. It consists of five major
houses: Todd McFarlane Productions, Top Cow Productions, Shadowline,
Skybound and Image Central. Image publishes comics and graphic novels in
nearly every genre, sub-genre, and style imaginable. It offers science
fiction, fantasy, romance, horror, crime fiction, historical fiction,
humor and more by the finest artists and writers working in the medium
today. For more information, visit
www.imagecomics.com.
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