Some other horrifying men with angry faces surround the victim and the story goes on in the same manner. The novel begins with the description of a Ku Klux Klan member carrying a weapon and a terrified looking man gazing at the knife in the hands of his torturer with great attention (Johnson 3). Even the central image of the book is a greatly horrifying one (“Incognegro: Black, White and Injustice all over”). Here, I need to say that from the first pages of “Incognegro” any reader would realize that the topic of this graphic novel is in no way child oriented. Now we see that comics are more and more frequently called graphic novels. Although comics as a literary genre have always been oriented on kids, today, we can see that more and more comic books are written on the serious subjects that would surely seem frightening and even horrifying if read by children. Having read the graphic novel of Mat Johnson, I would like to explore the current tendency of comics to be rather an entertainment for adults, than kids.
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