Diversity and Comics: Why Inclusion and Visibility Matter: The past year has witnessed the growth of more diverse faces on the pages of popular comic books and in feature films. Despite the impact of the unprecedented pandemic, the deaths and storming of the US Capitol Building, the inclusion of people of color, women, and persons…
INTERVIEW: Marco Finnegan Reimagines LA’s Zoot Suit Riots With a SciFi Twist in Lizard in a Zoot Suit
Set in the 1940s against the backdrop of The Sleepy Lagoon murder and the subsequent Zoot Suit Riots in LA, Latinx cartoonist Marco Finnegan explores history, racism, and classism in his new young adult graphic novel, Lizard in a Zoot Suit from Learner Publishing Group. Despite the zoot suit being a major element of Black and…