Edited by Tom Pomplun and Lance Tooks, this collection brings together and amazing assemblage of comics talent to provide comics adaptations of a wide swath of African American Classics, including works by:

W.E.B. DuBois

Langston Hughes

Zora Neale Hurston

Claude McKay

Jean Toomer

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Charles W. Chestnutt

James Weldon Johnson

and more!

Now out of print.  We found one brand new copy in the archives.

The Kirkus Reviews quote was enough to pique our interest:

"Theory of Bastards is a deeply unusual, psychologically astute novel about technology and survival, sex and love,  If Philip K. Dick and Ann Patchett wrote a collaborative novel it might look like this.  Beguiling, irreverent, and full of heart."

Need more?  Here's Michael Dirda's review from The Washington Post.