I first heard about Uraeus through Mshindo Kuumba who was working with him on a project called Indigo. From there, I found that everyone in indie black comics knows him and likes him. I didn’t get a chance to officially meet the mild-mannered Uraeus until the Black Heroes Matter Panel at NYCC this year. I’m glad I did. What I learned led to this interview. Uraeus tells u what he’s been working on, how he came up with Black Heroes Matter, and some crazy stuff that has happened to him since. Enjoy!

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On October 6, 2016. Black Enterprise magazine held a roundtable discussion about black Comics and personally invited indie black creators to participate. (I was actually invited as well, but I had a speaking engagement and couldn’t attend). The creators in attendance were Micheline Hess, Regine Sawyer, N. Steven Harris, Joseph P. Illidge, Naseed Gifted, Diletantte J. Bass, George Carmona, and Roye Okupe (by phone). The discussion was moderated by writer and Black Enterprise contributor Samara Lynn. Click the link below to watch. 🙂

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If you guys have been reading the blog, you know that HBO invited me to speak on a panel about their new show Westworld. I was also able to interview philosopher, futurist and NatGeo show host Jason Silva (Brain Games) that day as well. (I waited for my new Youtube Channel to go up before I posted.) We talked about his shows Nat Geo’s Brain Games as well as his philosophical streams of consciousness via his youtube channel Shots of Awe. And of course, we discussed what would happen if he ever went to Westworld. Here’s a hint: Sex was involved. Take a listen.

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On October 6th, 2016 I had the pleasure of moderating the most memorable panel that I have ever witnessed, much less participate in. It was called Afropunks and Blerds: The Black Nerd Rennassiance, and featured black alternative royalty such as Corey Glover (lead vocalist, songwriter Living Colour, Galactic), Vernon Reid (guiratirst, songwriter, activist Living Colour), Dr. Sheena Howard (writer/Eisner Award recipient Black Comics: The Politics of Race and Representation), David F. Walker (writer, Power Man and Iron Fist, Cyborg, Shaft, Nighthawk), Ytasha Womack (Afrofuturism: The World of Black SciFi and Fantasy Culture, Rayla 2212), John I. Jennings (writer/Eisner Award recipient The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art, Blue Hand Mojo) and Jamie Broadnax (writer/founder of the community Black Girl Nerds) Here are excerpts from that panel thanks to TheFanBrosShow crew. (If you’re looking for me, I’m the one quietly freaking out in the corner that I’m onstage with these people!!

I hope to have access to the full video and upload that soon as well. Enjoy!

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From Oct 6-9, 2016 I was lucky enough to participate in two of the record 38 panels at New York Comic Con whose subject matter centered around Diversity and Inclusion. As long as I’ve been going to NYCC I have NEVER seen this many panels on diversity, nor have I seen this much intersectional diversity represented either. Almost all of them were packed, despite many being scheduled at the EXACT same time. I think the thing that impressed me the most this year was the VARIETY of the ethnicities and genders involved in many of the panels. this year’s NYCC featured thirty-eight separate panels split into four subcategories: Disability, LGBTQ, People of Color and Women. I remember when there was just one, (Geeks of Color I think) and the moderator tried to include as many different representations of diversity on the panel as possible. Whereas during NYCC there were panels dedicated to a specific topic or ethnicity. Here a highlights from a few…

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HBO invited me* to participate in a panel discussion at the Paley Center for Media about their new show Westworld, which debuted on their channel on October 2. (Spoiler alert for the first Episode!) Westworld is executive produced by J.J. Abrams and written and produced by husband and wife team Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy. It’s based on Michael Crichton’s 1973 Yul Brynner film of the same name and is a “false-reality drama”about a high-end theme park filled with life-like AI that basically are programmed to let the guests do whatever they want to them. Each AI is programmed within a certain storyline that loops and intersects with other storylines. When a storyline reaches it’s final stage,  then the AI is “wiped” and they are slotted back into another story. But things start to get dangerous when some of the AI’s aren’t fully wiped and are retaining “memories” of previous storylines and what they’ve been through. (Since this is HBO, they go through some ish). Basically, Westworld is what would happen if BioWare went to Jurassic Park, rebuilt it as a live-action, fully immersible, real-time Red Dead Redemption RPG theme park and instead of dinosaurs coming after you, a random AI side-character breaks its protocols, becomes sentient and tries to kill you.

Yeah. You didn’t see that in the promos either did you?  Read on my friend.

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Last year my post about where to find African-American artists, panels and events at New York Comic Con was really popular, so this year I decided to do it again. Obviously, these events are not exclusive to just African-Americans, but if you are interested in supporting African-American artists and have no idea where to find them at the Javits Center, then this post is for you. Please let me know if I’ve missed anyone or anything! (If you want to know more about where the title comes from, click here). I will be updating this post daily through out the con!

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