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Aug 10, 2016 · Ronald Wimberly is an artist, character designer, and writer who has contributed art to several comic books and comics media projects, including Black Dynamite and Sunset Park. His most famous comics work is Prince of Cats , a futuristic title that blends hip-hop drenched New York City with samurai sword duels, and Shakespeare.
- Sanford Greene
- Denys Cowan
- Valentine de Landro
- Khary Randolph
- Brian Stelfreeze
- Shannon Wright
- Afua Richardson
- Kyle Baker
- Larry Stroman
- Alitha Martinez
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. Known for his raw, gritty linework, Greene has brought breathtaking interior art and covers to life, with widespread critical acclaim. Greene teamed up with writer Dav...
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. Published between 1987 and1992,...
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. Prior to its creation, De Landro had worked for Marvel, with his art style noted for its use of shading to set mood and atmosphere. His art style perfectly captures the grindhouse atmosphe...
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. Over at Image, Randolph was instrumental in relaunching the s...
Beginning his professional comic artist career with 1988's Cycops for Comics Interview, Brian Stelfreeze is one of the most prominent, prolific Black cover artists and designers in the entire industry. Primarily employing a painted style, Stelfreeze's cover work is very visually striking as he captures the essence of various characters including Ba...
A native of Virginia, Shannon Wrightis a prolific cartoonist who renders illustrations highlighting the black experience in America. Covering everything from outsider perceptions of black culture to injustices committed by federal and local governments, Wright's work delivers a raw, unfettered look at everything from intersectional feminism to atte...
Afua Richardson broke into the mainstream with her Image Comics/Top Cow Productions miniseries Genius, launched in 2014 with writers Marc Bernardin and Adam Freeman. Following this, Richardson joined Marvel's successful relaunch of Black Panther, working with writer Roxane Gay on the GLAAD Media Award-winning Black Panther: World of Wakanda in 2016...
One of the most celebrated Black comic book creators of all-time is Kyle Baker, an eight-time Eisner Award winner and five-time Harvey Award winner. Interning at Marvel as a senior in high school, Baker's first credited comic artwork was in 1984's The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe #13 before working as a penciler and inker for several ti...
Becoming a comic book artist was a lifelong aspiration for Larry Stroman, and by 1985 Stroman had achieved his dream, pencilling issues of American Flagg for First Comics and World's Finest Comics for DC. Within a couple years, Stroman began illustrating for Marvel Comics, including titles such as Uncanny X-Men, Ghost Rider and Cloak & Dagger. Stro...
After working as an assistant to Marvel Editor-In-Chief Joe Quesada in the '90s, Alitha Martinez became a professional comic book artist. While illustrating a whole host of Marvel titles, Martinez also branched into working with DC, Image and Archie Comics. She worked with writer Gail Simone on the New 52 relaunch of Batgirl.Her clean linework and ...
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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...
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Apr 29, 2021 · Jevon Phillips. Jevon Phillips is a multiplatform editor and writer for the Los Angeles Times. Black superheroes are popular onscreen thanks to the work of Black creators of comic...
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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.
April 26—27, 2024 | 10 AM to 7 PM (ET) Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 515 Malcolm X Blvd. SchomCom 2023 Art by Blossom Blair. RSVP. FESTIVAL SCHEDULE. Explore the full list of featured authors and speakers for the 2024 Black Comic Book Festival.
Jun 5, 2020 · Over the past several days, CBR has featured Black writers and Black artists whose work you need to read. While the creators and titles highlighted on those lists and this one are just the tip of the iceberg, here is a selection of widely acclaimed and culturally significant creator-owned comic book titles from Black creators.
