Nat Turner Issue #1
Publication Year
2005
Geographic Location
Southampton, Virginia, U.S.A.
Language
English
Number of Pages
48
Physical Description
Comic book with a full-colour front and back cover, all panels done in black and white. The entire comic consists solely of art panels with no spoken dialogue. The only text contained beyond the synopsis and advertisements for additional books are excerpts from journal entries on pages 26 and 47, placed below, and to the left of the art panels depicted therein respectively.
Summary
A comic book adapting the real life accounts, journal entries, and court confessions of Nat Turner, an African citizen kidnapped and enslaved during the American slave trade during the early 1800's. Nat Turner would later become the leader of an insurrection in Southampton, Virginia. The entire comic is presented from start to finish with no spoken dialogue, with the story presented entirely through visual media.
The only text contained beyond the synopsis (which itself appears to have been scanned from a real life court document) on the reverse side of the front cover, the advertisements for proceeding books in the series on the final page, and the copyright information are excerpts from journal entries on pages 26 and 47, placed below, and to the left of the art panels depicted therein respectively.
The only text contained beyond the synopsis (which itself appears to have been scanned from a real life court document) on the reverse side of the front cover, the advertisements for proceeding books in the series on the final page, and the copyright information are excerpts from journal entries on pages 26 and 47, placed below, and to the left of the art panels depicted therein respectively.
Copies in library
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