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This year’s crop of comics art included experimental storytelling and flights of stylistic fancy.

Sweeping surveys, whiz-bang storytelling, and moments of quiet reflection speak to a range of comics fans.

Published in conjunction with an exhibition at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Black Cartoonists in Chicago, 1940-1980 features work from nine prominent Black cartoonists, plus a painted cover by Kerry James Marshall.

Yes, lots of comics were racist. A new generation of Black artists is reinventing them By Dorany Pineda, Los Angeles Times Published: May 10, 2021, 6:02am Share: 2 Photos RIVERSIDE, CA - MARCH 7, 2021: John Jennings, comic book illustrator and professor of media and cultural studies at UC Riverside on March 7, 2021 in downtown Riverside, California. Black artists are using comics as a medium to address racial injustices.(Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times) Photo Gallery M...

Dorany Pineda, Los Angeles Times Manuel and Geiszel Godoy are military veterans, and they believe deeply in social justice. But above all, they are entrepreneurs who saw an underdeveloped sector in their industry and dove in. "We have to show that we can pull a Tyler Perry as a community," Manuel Godoy, president of Black Sands Entertainment, says in a recent video interview. "The idea is that the bigger the company gets, the better the IP does, the more everybody wins, and we can f...

Advertisement Advertisement “If we get this done,” Godoy says, “we’ve proven that you no longer have to walk through the gate they built in order to get to the main stage.” Black Sands isn’t the first through the gate. It joins a growing hive of Black creators who’ve carved space in a format that for decades was steeped in racism and exclusion. “Black Sands: The Seven Kingdoms” is the flagship comic series of Black Sands Entertainment. (Black Sands Entertainment) Booming gen...

April 6, 2021 AMHERST, Mass. – The 2021 Massachusetts Undergraduate Research Conference (MassURC) will be held as a virtual event on Friday, April 23. MassURC serves as an opportunity for undergraduate students from public colleges, universities and community colleges across the Commonwealth to showcase their research and engage with peers, faculty and conference attendees. The 2021 MassURC will feature the research of 910 undergraduate students representing 26 of the public higher education...

In The Souls of Black Folk, written in 1903 by W.E.B. DuBois, the author describes the African American experience as a "Double Consciousness," a psychological condition brought on from living in a world as a Black person "through the eyes of racist white people." Comic historian Ken Quattro was profoundly affected by DuBois work while he conducted research for IDWs Invisible Men: The Trailblazing Black Artists of Comic Books, his new book chronicling the lives and work of 18 Black men the co...

Jackie Ormes, the first African-American woman cartoonist Ormes characters offered a fresh perspective on how African Americans were depicted in cartoons Share Updated: 8:16 AM EST Feb 5, 2021 Victoria Ottomanelli Ormes characters offered a fresh perspective on how African Americans were depicted in cartoons Share Updated: 8:16 AM EST Feb 5, 2021 TRACKING THE COVID-19 VACCINE Ormes characters offered a fresh perspective on how African Americans were depicted in ca...

Jackie Ormes, the first African-American woman cartoonist Ormes characters offered a fresh perspective on how African Americans were depicted in cartoons Share Updated: 8:16 AM EST Feb 5, 2021 Victoria Ottomanelli Ormes characters offered a fresh perspective on how African Americans were depicted in cartoons Share Updated: 8:16 AM EST Feb 5, 2021 TRACKING THE COVID-19 VACCINE Ormes characters offered a fresh perspective on how African Americans were depicted in ca...