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Jun 3, 2020 · Below are several Black comic book artists whose work both longtime and burgeoning comic readers alike should check out and recommend to others, along with links to websites and online portfolios. CBR will also feature Black writers and Black creator-owned books in coming days.
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- Bitter Root. After previously working together on a relaunch of Power Man and Iron Fist at Marvel, David F. Walker and Sanford Greene reunited, along with veteran comic book creator Chuck Brown, to launch the Image Comics series Bitter Root in 2018.
- Bingo Love. Created by Tee Franklin and Jenn St.- Onge, Bingo Love is an original graphic novel that follows two women that fall in love as teenagers but are separated by the prejudices of the time and move apart.
- Excellence. One of the biggest Skybound Entertainment/Image launches from last year was Excellence, created by Brandon Thomas and Khary Randolph. The creator-owned series follows Spencer Dale, a young man whose father is a member of the Aegis, a secret society of magic users who use their incredible abilities to selflessly work to improve the world around them.
- Day Men. Boom! Studios editor-in-chief Matt Gagnon and co-writer Michael Alan Nelson teamed with legendary artist Brian Stelfreeze to co-create the series Day Men.
Aug 10, 2016 · And with the exciting news of writers like Ta-Nehisi Coates, Roxane Gay, and Yona Harvey trying their hands at comic books, it becomes very important for us to showcase the works of other black comics creators–because who knows how many readers may be introduced to comics through their work?
Dec 31, 2020 · By Helene Stapinski. Dec. 31, 2020. Ken Quattro’s deep dive into Black comic book artists started out of frustration. Twenty years ago, while researching a man named Matt Baker whose drawings...
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- Christopher Priest/Priest. Often credited just as Priest, Christopher Priest was the first African-American writer-editor to work for a mainstream American comic book publisher, having been hired as an editor at Marvel in 1979 after previously interning at the company.
- Ta-Nehisi Coates. After an award-winning tenure as a correspondent for The Atlantic and guest columnist for The New York Times, Ta-Nehisi Coates transitioned from journalism to writing nonfiction with his 2008 memoir The Beautiful Struggle and its 2015 epistolary follow-up Between the World and Me.
- N.K. Jemisin. Like Coates, multi-award-winning sci-fi writer N.K. Jemisin is relatively new to writing comics. After penning numerous short stories, Jemisin's 2010 debut novel The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms kickstarted a whole, Hugo Award-nominated trilogy.
- Vita Ayala. Vita Ayala is a non-binary, Afro-Latinx writer from New York City who has steadily built up an impressive catalogue of work for virtually every major publisher in the United States.
Feb 17, 2016 · For the sake of space, I won’t focus so much on historical artists–we’d be here all day! Anthologies like Damian Duffy’s Black Comix: African American Independent Comics, Art, and Culture, Sheena C. Howard’s and Ronald L. Jackson’s Black Comics: Politics of Race and Representation, Deborah Elizabeth Whaley’s Black Women in ...
Apr 29, 2021 · (Brian Van Der Brug / Los Angeles Times) By Jevon Phillips Multiplatform Editor. April 29, 2021 5 AM PT. Marvel’s “Black Panther,” one of the all-time highest-grossing films at the worldwide box...
