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Aug 10, 2016 · Amandla Stenberg is an actress, writer, and activist known for playing the character Rue in The Hunger Games film adaptation. Stenberg is also the creator and co-writer of Niobe, a fantasy adventure comic. Robert Garrett. Robert Garrett is the founder of Xmoor Studios.
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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. After serving as an assistant editor on Larry Hama's run on Conan the Barbarian, Priest made his debut as a...
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. In 2016, Coates made his debut as a comic book writer, relaunching B...
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. Jemisin's follow-up trilogy, beginning with 2016's The Fifth Seasonand subsequent installments, each won a ...
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. From Dynamite Entertainment's recent relaunch of James Bond to the upcoming Dawn of X series Children of the Atom, Ayala has worked on a number of prominent titles and ...
Bryan Edward Hill got his start in the comic book industry reinvigorating and expanding the Image Comics/Top Cow Productions Witchblade franchise in 2010, with the miniseries Broken Trinity: Pandora's Box. Hill continued to work extensively with Top Cow and was instrumental in the relaunch of Cyberforce. He also wrote several original series includ...
One of the most celebrated, trail-blazing figures in comics was the late Dwayne McDuffie, a prolific writer, producer and editor in comic books and animation. While working as a writer and editor at Marvel, McDuffie was pivotal in developing the publisher's popular line of superhero trading cards. After stints writing at Marvel and DC, McDuffie co-...
Writer and editor Danny Lore has steadily been increasing the volume and visibility of their work in recent years. In addition to co-creating the Vault Comics series Queen of Bad Dreams, Lore has also co-written several titles with frequent collaborator Vita Ayala, including Comixology Originals series Quarter Killer, Dynamite Entertainment's recen...
After getting his start in the comic book industry as an intern at Marvel, Kwanza Osajyefo rose through the ranks to become an Online Associate Editor before helming DC's digital publishing imprint Zuda. After helping DC format its digital publishing strategy, Osajyefo successfully crowdfunded the comic book series Blackin 2016, taking the reins as...
Eisner Award-winning writer and editor Taneka Stotts recently began working as a screenwriter for animated series, though her comics work is prolific. Stotts edited the Eisner Award-winning anthology Elements: Fire, an all-ages friendly collection of short stories from comic creators of color across a wide range of genres. Stotts also edited and pu...
In addition to being a fan-favorite comics artist, Johnnie Christmas also showcases his skills as a writer in his latest Image series, Tartarus. Along with co-creator Jack T. Cole, the new series follows a young cadet in an interplanetary empire as she discovers her mother may have been responsible for a series of grisly war crimes during a civil w...
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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.
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Apr 29, 2021 · We asked a few current comic book creators about the state of the industry for Black professionals and the influences helping shape today’s heroes. They disagreed on the reasons for this...
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- Sanford Greene. Sanford Greene has worked as a professional comic book artist for over 15 years and for virtually all the major publishers currently in the game, including Marvel, DC and Dark Horse.
- Denys Cowan. Denys Cowan is one of the most influential figures in comics. After starting his professional career as a comic artist in 1980's Weird War Tales #93 for DC and working a variety of titles for DC and Marvel, Cowan teamed with longtime editor and writer Denny O'Neill for their universally acclaimed run on The Question.
- Valentine De Landro. One of the most acclaimed and timely titles published by Image Comics in the last decade is Bitch Planet, created by Kelly Sue DeConnick and Valentine De Landro.
- Khary Randolph. Khary Randolph is one of the most prolific Black artists working for mainstream publishers today. Randolph has built up an impressive body of work at Marvel and DC over the past several years, including interior art for We Are Robin and a whole line of stunning cover art for the Big Two.
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...
10 Comics & Graphic Novels by Black Creators to Read for Black History Month 2024. BITTER ROOT by David F. Walker, Chuck Brown & Sanford Greene. Nominated for an Oregon Book Award! For generations the Sangerye family has fought to protect the world from the evil plague of the jinoo-hideous creatures born out of hate and racism.
