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Jun 5, 2020 · 15 Black Creator-Owned Comics That Are Essential Reading. By Sam Stone. Published Jun 5, 2020. Black creators are thriving in the creator-owned comics scene, and comics like Bitter Root, Prince of Cats and The Wilds are must-read titles. While mainstream comic book publishers may be lacking in diverse creators working on their titles, the ...
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Apr 29, 2021 · Black superheroes are popular onscreen thanks to the work of Black creators of comic book characters and stories that anticipated this racial reckoning moment. April 29, 2021
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May 12, 2021 · The timely retelling of Static and other meta-humans, known as the Bang Babies, is part of DC's revival of Milestone Comics, a pioneering imprint founded by four Black creators in 1993 that ...
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Feb 9, 2023 · Oct. 2022. Gr 3-7 –This candy-colored, action-packed story mixes superheroes and school drama to good effect. In a city where superheroes and ordinary folk live side-by-side, the fact that Leon wears a superhero costume to school doesn’t draw second glances, but he doesn’t really have powers.
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- Genius. Destiny Ajaye is a strategic wunderkind and a teenaged agent of radical change in Genius, a series co-created by Marc Bernardin, Adam Freeman, and Afua Richardson.
- Nighthawk. Writer David Walker wanted his iteration on the Squadron Supreme's Nighthawk to be Marvel's answer to Batman. Except this hero, a black man, did a lot of things that Batman couldn't and wouldn't do: like tackling police brutality and socioeconomic inequality in minority neighborhoods in Chicago.
- Icon. Milestone Comics broke ground with all of the books that heralded its arrival on the comics scene in the mid-'90s. Icon may not have been the most popular series (that would be Static, of course,) but to me, it was the most fascinating of the Milestone titles.
- Black. A Kickstarter sensation when it first dropped in 2016, Black by Kwanza Osajyefo, Tim Smith 3, Khary Randolph, and Jamal Igle had a killer hook: What if only black people had superpowers?
Apr 23, 2021 · Flying While Black: Two Creators on Inventing (and Reinventing) Black Superheroes We asked Eve L. Ewing and Evan Narcisse to share perspectives on the politics of being a Black comic-book writer ...
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...
