Is it Own Voice?

My variant cover for IRONHEART #1, available at your LCS on November 7th 😚💖 More info here:

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Too Hot To Be Cool, the comic I made in 2016 for ELEMENTS: FIRE! Two Xicana step-sisters get into some hot water.

Prince of Cats

San Diego Comic Con, in what is now a great mid-summer tradition, dropped some great announcements this past weekend. Among them, Marvel’s new The World of Wakanda, the new companion series to the current record-breaking Black Panther run.World of Wakanda is going to be written by two Black women authors and drawn by two Black women artists. This is a first all around and worthy of all the excitement it has generated around the Internet. We were lucky enough to steal a few minutes with Roxane Gay, one of the authors for the new series. Gay is new to comics but brings with her a significant writing resume, with novels (An Untamed State), essays (Bad Feminist), and op/ed columns to her name. We talked comics and Marvel, the Dora Milaje, and dream projects. We’re happy that we get to share this with you.

Black Nerd Problems: Needless to say, we’re big fans around here of the work Coates and Stelfreeze on Black Panther. How did Coates bring you on board to write World of Wakanda? Roxane Gay: Ta-Nehisi and I have been acquainted over the years. We did a reading together at 826 Boston during the AWP conference a few years back and he remembered the story I wrote. A few months ago, he e-mailed me, saying he had a crazy idea. One thing led to another and here we are.

BNP: So I know you’re a new fan. I’ve only been a comics reader for a few years myself, so I know that learning curve is steep. How are you going about researching the universe where the comic will be set?

RG: I am trying to read all the comics I can and I am also, as cheesy as it sounds, reading books on how to write comics. But I also know they brought me in for a reason so I am trying to trust myself and remember that I don’t need to know everything about writing comics. I need to know how to tell stories and that, I can do pretty with you.

Here’s an important snippet from my comic Gringa! on how stereotyping and ignorance can impact POC and White Latinx. 

Sadly yes there are people who don’t take this seriously but we must stop encouraging them to continue this kind of mindset. I used to shrug it off and thought it was just the norm despite feeling very uncomfortable. However, it’s not okay! We must speak up or else we’ll be spoken for by the wrong people. 

I finally finished! The #BeingLatinxInComics series is a series of posts that work to highlight Latinx creators and voices within the comic and pop culture industry. The series will included but not limited to: writers, artists, colorists, inkers, podcasts, journalists, comic characters, publishers, and others. 

William H. Foster III, comic book historian, on representation in comic books. From PBS’s Superheroes: A Never-Ending Battle.

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El Gato Negro, Azteca Productions 

“El Gato Negro (The Black Cat) was an independent comic book series featuring the eponymous character created by Richard Dominguez and published by Azteca Productions.

LaGuardia (2018)  //  Dark Horse Comics 

The series follows a Nigerian-American woman named Future as she navigates a society in which aliens live among humans on Earth. A smuggled alien plant and strange complications related to her pregnancy are just some of the challenges Future will face.

Nnedi Okorafor has won multiple awards in the sci-fi and fantasy space, including both a Hugo and a Nebula Award for the novella Binti. She has also recently published her first comics work in an issue of Marvel’s Black Panther & The Crew, which was illustrated by LaGuardia artist Ford. Ford is best known for her work on Marvel’s Silk, as well as for work on Gwenpool, The Amazing Spider-Man, and Jem and the Holograms. 

Story: Nnedi Okorafor, art: Tana Ford

Get more of Nnedi Okorafor  here

Solarman   (2016)  // Scout Comics

“Ben Tucker is a teenage hacker going after the wealthy and corrupt, fighting bullies, and living in his father’s basement. When a mysterious alien attacks a space station conducting secret experiments, Ben is accidentally exposed to extraterrestrial technology and imbued with near-nuclear-based power.

Now Ben Tucker is a fugitive, with the police, an alien menace, and a paramilitary division hunting him down, with the intention to capture…or kill.”

Story: Joseph P. Illidge, Brendan Deneen, art: N. Steven Harris

Order  here and here

Princess Love ♥ Pon (2017)  //  Webcomic

Lia Sagamore is your average high school student worried about the future… Until one day she’s given the chance to become someone magical! Being a magical girl is better than real life… right?

by Shauna J. Grant 

Read it now at princesslovepon.com