A down-on-his-luck writer decides to create the most cliché novel possible about the Black experience in the US in American Fiction. But his experiment to indict the literary industry may have ensnared him in a trap instead.
Colored: The Unsung Life of Claudette Colvin Examines A Civil Rights Hero
Colored: The Unsung Life of Claudette Colvin Émilie Plateau (Writer and Artist), Montana Kane (Translation), Cromatik Ltd. (Letters) Dargaud (French), Europe Comics (English) April 17, 2019 Disclaimer: Izneo has provided WWAC with a VIP Access Pass. Nine months before Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama, fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin had done the…
Antar: The Black Knight #1 Brings History to Life
Antar: The Black Knight #1 Nnedi Okorafor (Writer), Eric Battle (Artist), Jason Scott Jones (Colours), Thomas Mauer (Letters) IDW Publishing 18 April, 2018 A young slave is beaten by cruel masters. He takes the beating, believing that hardship will only make him stronger. Where does he get this strength from? His mother, Zabiba, better known…
African Speculative Fiction, Black Panther, and Venom: An Interview with Nnedi Okorafor
Blazing a trail for imaginative, Africa-based writing is Nnedi Okorafor. With more than 15 novels and novellas already published, including the Binti trilogy, the Akata series, and Who Fears Death, soon to be adapted for HBO by George R. R. Martin, Okorafor has also been branching out into the world of comics. Her most recent…
BLACK: Powerful, Stunning and Subversive
BLACK Volume One Kwanza Osajyefo (writer), Jamal Igle (artist), Tim Smith III (designer), Derwin Roberson (colours) Black Mask Studios 1 November, 2017 What started as a Kickstarter project in 2016 may soon become a feature film. Kwanza Osajeyfo’s popular comic book BLACK was optioned for film by Studio 8 late February.