Octavia E. Butler

Damian Duffy

John Jennings

Hopkinson Nalo

A Graphic Novel Adaptation

Parable of the Sower

In 2010, Professor John Jennings and Dr. Damian Duffy compiled and published a 176-page collection of art and essays celebrating the vibrant African American independent comics community. Black Comix featured over 50 contributors, including Dawud Anyabwile, Eric Battle, Kenji Marshall, Afua Richardson, Larry Stroman, Rob Stull, Lance Tooks, and many, many more. It met high praise throughout the industry and quickly sold through its respectable print run despite interest and demand--used copies now fetch $60-150 on Amazon and eBay. Flash-forward eight years: the comic industry has changed a lot since then, and the amount of African American talent continues to grow and amaze. While huge strides in diversity have been made, John and Damian felt the time was right for another spotlight on the topic. Rather than simply reprinting the first edition, considering the number of fresh new voices and changes in the industry, a whole new volume felt necessary. This massive volume will be a brand-new milestone spotlight on the amazing diversity in comics today.

Black Comix Returns

What is comics? Out of Sequence is an exploration of this question. This exhibition is a declaration of the diversity of sequential art in the United States, diversity not just of creators, but also of content and form. It is a broad survey of women, small press, minority, independent, gay and lesbian, self-published, mini, underground, web, and/or gallery comics creators.

Underrepresented Voices in American Comics

Out of Sequence

The immense popularity of comics and graphic novels cannot be ignored. But in light of the comics boom that has taken place over the past 10 years the artists, writers and publishers that comprise the vibrant African American independent comics community have remained relatively unknown, until now. Black Comix brings together an unprecedented collection of largely unheard of, and undeniably masterful, comics art while also framing the work of these men and women in a broader historical and cultural context. With a foreword by Keith Knight and over 50 contributors, including Phonzie Davis, Jan-Michael Franklin, Frances Liddell, Kenjji Marshall, Lance Tooks, Rob Stull, Ashley A. Woods and many more, the cross section of comics genres represented includes manga, superheroes, humor, history, science fiction and fantasy. This book is a must-have for comics readers of a wide variety of tastes and ages. Damian Duffy is editor in chief of Eye Trauma Comix, the writer and letterer of several graphic novels, including the award winning The Hole: Consumer Culture, with John Jennings. He is a curator, PhD candidate in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, and has presented extensively at international conferences on comics, art and education.John Jennings is a cofounder of Eye Trauma Comix, as well as an illustrator, designer, graphic novelist, curator and associate professor of graphic design at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a frequent lecturer on comics, visual literacy, popular culture and visual communication in hip-hop. He is currently illustrating the graphic novel Double Dealing, written by Damian Duffy and Christopher D. Benson.

African American Independent Comics, Art and Culture

Black Comix

On cover: "The hole, consumer culture, vol. 01: Open, a graphic novel by Damian Duffy + John Jennings."

Consumer Culture : a Graphic Novel

The Hole

Stacey Robinson

Nominee: Best Artist, Glyph Awards Kid Code is the first in what promises to be a long line of Black Kirby/Tan Lee productions. Kid Code: Channel Zero is a rollicking, cosmic, time-traveling adventure, fusing classic hip-hop culture and outlandish sci-fi fantasy in this alternate universe to create the ultimate mash-up. Everything's a remix! And Kid Code and his comrades must fight against The Power, who eons ago sampled the first sounds made from the God MC and created the Dark Mix (a version of the universe that was never intended). Now there's a race against and for time throughout the universe to assemble The Everlasting Cosmic Mixtape--nine tracks that can re-assemble the God Sample and help set things back on course.

Kid Code #1

Dann Tincher

Whisp

Dana, una joven escritora negra, acaba de mudarse con su marido a su nuevo hogar en la California de la década de 1970. Sin poder explicar cómo, de repente, se ve transportada a través del tiempo y del espacio hasta Maryland, al aterrador mundo del sur estadounidense anterior a la Guerra de Secesión. Pronto logrará entender el porqué de su viaje: tiene que salvar a Rufus, un joven esclavista heredero de una plantación con un gran conflicto interior y que resulta ser su antepasado. Dana deberá ayudarle no solo para lograr sobrevivir al entorno, sino para garantizar su propia existencia. Esta mordaz adaptación a novela gráfica del clásico de ciencia ficción de Octavia E. Butler "Parentesco (Kindred)" es una mirada decidida y profundamente conmovedora a la esclavitud y a cómo, de alguna manera, esta encadenó tanto a negros como a blancos, creando un parentesco entre ellos en el más profundo sentido de la palabra

Damian Duffy

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