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- While mainstream comic book publishers may be lacking in diverse creators working on their titles, the independent and creator-owned comic book scene has seen a rise in Black creators over the past several years, giving the medium an all-too overlooked perspective and culture that elevates comics as an art form.
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Apr 29, 2021 · Advertisement. Yes, lots of comics were racist. A new generation of Black artists is reinventing them. John Jennings is a comic book illustrator and professor of media and cultural studies at...
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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 Rootin 2018. The title showcases a steampunk, alternate history vision of the Harlem Renaissance as a family of monster hunters...
Created by Tee Franklin and Jenn St.-Onge, Bingo Loveis 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. Decades later, the two women reunite -- having since built families of their own -- to rekindle their romance after meeting at a church bingo game. As...
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...
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. What makes it particularly notable is that the series marked Stelfreeze's first ongoing, interior comic book work since 2005, while the living artistic legend had mainly focused on cover art for ...
Written by U.S. House Representative John Lewis and Andrew Aydin and illustrated by Nate Powell, the March trilogyof original graphic novels recounts Lewis' experiences as a major figure within the Civil Rights Movement, including working directly alongside Martin Luther King, Jr. Starting from the March from Selma to Montgomery, the trilogy follow...
After working extensively as an editor for Marvel and DC, Kwanza Osajyefo successfully crowdfunded his own creator-owned series Black, with artists Jamal Igle, Robin Riggs and Darwin Roberson. Published by Black Mask Studios, the title saw the secret that the Black community possessed superpowers come to light, as one young man became a superhero a...
Alongside comics like The Maxx and StormWatch, Larry Stroman and Todd Johnson's Tribe was part of the second wave of Image titles in 1993. As one of the best-selling comics by African American creators of all-time, Tribefeatured an eponymous new team of superheroes operating out of New York City taking on all kinds of villains while overcoming thei...
Written by Vita Ayala and illustrated by Emily Pearson, the miniseries The Wildsbegins approximately a decade after a cataclysmic event that left the majority of humanity as part of a mysterious horde. In this harsh landscape, Daisy Walker, a runner for one of the last bastions of civilization, sets out to find her missing lover Heather. Debuting i...
Drawing from Sub-Saharan African folklore and mythology, Greg Anderson Elysée, Walter Ostlie and Lee Milewski's Is'nana the Were-Spiderhas the eponymous son of Anansi, the West African God of Spiders, sent to rein in monsters running free on Earth. As Is-nana faces different bestial deities and demigods, he finds his place among humanity. Launched ...
Written and illustrated by Ebony Flowers, the original graphic novel Hot Combfollows the culture around Black hair across a collection of short stories. First published in 2019 by Drawn and Quarterly, the anthology spotlights everything from the culture around Black barbershops to the coming-of-age story of an African American girl receiving her fi...
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May 10, 2021 · “One thing that gets lost when talking about the great Black orators, thinkers and historical figures of our time are the Black comic creators,” says Sheena Howard, professor of...
Apr 29, 2021 · Yet Black storytellers in the comic book industry are no longer invisible. They’re also not one-offs without voice or vision or impact within the industry. “I’ve been reading and collecting...
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Apr 23, 2021 · April 23, 2021. ‘You Are a Threat to Them’. By Eve L. Ewing | Author of the Marvel series Ironheart. My Twitter notifications were a garbage fire. They said I had no talent, that I was a harbinger...
May 28, 2021 · Comic book stories by a new generation of Black artists are thriving. By Dorany Pineda, Los Angeles Times. May 28, 2021 — 3:49pm. Sony, Star Tribune. The success of “Spider-Man: Into the...
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...
