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The following is a guest post by Emma Brodfuehrer Hastings, asummer internwith the Digital Restudent of Library and Information Science at theCatholic University of America

The U.S. comic book industry is full of stories about fantastical worlds with superheroes, multiverses and cartoonishly evil villains, but one writer and publisher is opening the door for stories celebrating real life — and specifically, the real, rich lives of women of color.

A few days ago, my friend Alex Atkins sent me an email about a book that had set the collecting world abuzz: a limited edition of Moby-Dick from The Folio Society, created to commemorate the 175th anniversary of Herman Melville’s masterpiece.