I am thrilled to announce that I have been published! Not in my own book, (although I hope to do that someday), but I’ve written a prose chapter in an upcoming Dark Horse graphic novel called Pros and (Comic) Cons published by Dark Horse Comics and edited by Hope Nicholson. Nicholson is the founder of the award-winning Canadian indie publisher Bedside Press and is skilled at creating non-fiction graphic novel anthologies within the genre space. She’s put together some amazing books among them Secret Loves of Geek Girls and one of my favorites Hit Reblog: Comics that Caught Fire. A graphic novel that digs into the origins of illustrated internet memes and their effects as told by their creators.

Ronin Island is a fairly new comic from Boom Studios written by Greg Pak (Mech Cadet Yu, Firefly, World War HULK) about a fictional island in Asia that must battle both a zombie horde as well as a feudal class system in order to survive. 30 years prior, Ronin Island survived a catastrophe called The Great Wind. The result has thrown a group of refugees, Japanese, Korean and Chinese, together on a small island in the Pacific which has seen peace ever since. Isolated from the mainland, they live quiet lives.

During C2E2 I was lucky enough to sit down with comic book legend Marv Wolfman and talk to him for SYFYWire. Not only did he create the character BLADE for Marvel, but in his half a century career with DC Comics, he’s created Cyborg, Nightwing, Starfire, Bullseye and more. But it’s collaboration with longtime friend and artist George Pérez on their Crisis on Two Earth’s and Teen Titans Runs that’s actually my favorite.

In this interview we talk about how it felt being on set for the first BLADE movie with Wesley Snipes slipping in the fake blood on the set of that famous club scene in BLADE, what he thinks about all of the different Bullseye adaptaions and why he honestly feels his latest comic, Man and Superman, is his best work ever. Watch the full interview below:

Although I get to talk to indie comic creators every week, It’s been a while since I’ve actually reviewed a comic here and I’ve decided to share some of what I’ve been reading. I’m starting 2019 off with an all-ages comic that I think is a wonderful read and is something that you can add to the list of Magical Books for Black Girls. The Invention of E. J. Whitaker by Shawnee and Shawnelle Gibbs. The Gibbs sisters first came to my attention in 2016 when they had a kickstarter for this comic, and since then they’ve worked on a ton of projects with everyone from BET and MTV to Lifetime and the Food Network. But it was this little story about a young Southern black girl inventor in the midst of the Industrial Age that caught my interest.

Ever scroll through Instagram and stumble across some amazing artwork by an artist that you’ve never heard of? That’s happened to me. When I thought about it, I realized that I’m probably not the only one. So every month, I’m going to start highlighting 10 (or more) artists that I think are pretty phenomenal. Every name is a link to their page, so follow and support folks!

1. Annie Wu

For those of you who were unaware, September 15, 2018 was officially Batman Day. The fifth annual holiday of DC and Batman fans. (For those of you Marvel fans who haven’t stopped playing Spider-Man PS4 since it dropped last week, take a break and check out some of what went on today).  On top of the comic book sales, toys and even special treats for kids it was also the day that DC Comics launched it’s new streaming service DC Universe. (Not to be confused with the DC gaming app DC Universe Online). The service has been teased for months. Mostly to promote several new original series,TITANS, Doom Patrol and the one I’m personally waiting for Young Justice: Outsiders. 

DC Universe didn’t launch any of those  shows today. But it did

For those of you who follow this blog, you’ll remember I wrote about the comicbook Ricanstruction: Reminiscing & Rebuilding Puerto Rico by Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez. The proceeds from the sale of that comic went towards Hurricane Maria relief in Puerto and teamed his original character La Boriqueña with Wonder Woman, Superman, Batman, Aquaman, The Flash, Harley Quinn, and many other DC classic characters, (with permission from DC COMICS). Now Miranda-Rodriguez is back with the second full trade of his creator owned work, La Boriqueña #2. 

from official press release

March 20, 2018 – Somos Arte, the studio behind the critically acclaimed La Borinqueña graphic novel, is pleased to announce the publication of RICANSTRUCTION: REMINISCING & REBUILDING PUERTO RICO, a comics anthology created to benefit ongoing relief efforts in Puerto Rico. Conceived and produced by EDGARDO MIRANDA-RODRIGUEZ, Ricanstruction teams up his original character LA BORINQUEÑA with some of the most iconic DC Comics superheroes (used with permission) of all time: Wonder Woman, Batman, Superman, Aquaman, The Flash, Harley Quinn, and many others.