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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...

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...