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4th Annual Black Comic Book Festival at the Schomburg
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, New York is celebrating the 4th Annual Black Comic Book Festival on January 16th, and I couldn’t be more excited! The full day event is...
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2016 Glyph Awards Submissions Are Open!
Submissions are open for the Glyph Awards. Those are the awards presented for comics of color at East Coast Black Age of Comics Convention (ECBACC) DEADLINE IS JANUARY 31 2016. If you are a comic book...
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Forward Comix Accepting Submissions for GWAN Athology
Award-winning, Brooklyn, New York-based indie publisher Forward Comix has announced an open call for entries for the anthology Gwan. If you are an independent comic book artist, inker, writer or...
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Blerd Podcasters Unite to Suppport Amalgam Comics
The black nerd community is really excited about the grand opening of Amalgam Comics and Coffee owned and operated by Ariell Johnson the first female black-owned comic book shop on the east coast. So...
View ArticleVoices of Women in Comics Art Exhibtion at Medialia Gallery
The Women in Comics Collective is presenting an exhibition in conjunction with Medialia Gallery called “Our Voices: Women in Comics”. A showcase of original comic and cartoon art, process work, and...
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2nd Annual Khem Comic Book Fest Coming Back to Newark
On Saturday, February 2o, from 10am-7pm will be the Second Annual Khem Comic Book Fest. The small indie event was created by Naseed Gifted (PB Soldier) for youth in the Newark, New Jersey area. The...
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The 2nd Annual Women in Comics Convention is Coming!
LockettDown Productions and BronxHeroes are back with the 2nd Annual Women in Comics Collective NY International (WiNC for short) Convention. It’s held at Bronx Library Center (NYPL) 316 East...
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VizMedia Releases Death Note BluRay Uncut Omega Edition
VIZ Media has just announced the debut of Death Note: The Complete Anime Series available on Blu-ray. You folks might not know this about me, but I love me some anime and not just the mecha fighting...
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Help Rosarium Publishing Keep Bringing Us Diverse Books and Comics
(originally posted on Graphics Policy) Indie scifi novel and comic book publisher Rosarium Publishing announced April 6 that it is raising funds via crowdfunding to help pay for production of a...
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2016 Glyph Comics Award Nominees and Judges
The Glyph Comic Awards were created by and held in conjunction with The East Coast Black Age of Comics Convention in Philadelphia, PA. The Glyphs goal is to recognize the best in comics made by, for,...
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Marvel Launches Monthly Black Panther Video Series
Black Panther #1, written by The Atlantic national correspondent and National Book Award winner, Ta-Nehisi Coates, accompanied with outstanding art by Brian Stelfreeze, garnered international buzz and...
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The 2016 Glyph Award Winners
If you follow me on Snapchat, then you know I was at the Glyph Comic Awards on Friday. It was both my first time at the event, as well as my first time at the African American Museum of Philadelphia...
View Articletheblerdgurl vists: The FanBros Show
As many of you know, I am a big fan of The Fan Bros Show podcast. They were nice enough to invite me to “the spaceship” last week, and it was BLAST! The whole gang was there, Tatiana King Jones, Dj...
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Going to SDCC? Then Get In on the Black Lives Matter Flash Mob Photoshoot
If you are attending Comic-Con in San Diego at the San Diego Convention Center this weekend, and you support Black Lives Matter, then pack a white shirt, black pants and a black tie. Because this...
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Why Nilah Magruder Is Actually the First Black Woman to Write for Marvel
Comic book writer, artist and animator Nilah Magruder, and winner of the 2015 Dwayne McDuffie Award for Diversity just dropped a new comic through Marvel called A Year Of Marvels: September Infinite...
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That Time NYCC Had 38 Panels About Diversity
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...
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Excerpts from the Afropunks and Blerds Panel at NYCC
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,...
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Alternatives to Comixology for Buying Comics Online
Once the election results came in and Trump was declared President-elect, I knew I would have to start boycotting things, New Balance, I can live without, but today when #Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos gave...
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2017 Schomburg Black Comic Book Fest Announced
Hey folks! The Black Comic Book Festival (Founded by: Jerry Craft, Deirdre Hollman, Jonathan Gayles, and John Jennings) is back at the Schomburg in January and guess what? We got our wish! It’s going...
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Universal Fan Con Coming 2018
I am really excited about this brand new convention coming to Baltimore because I know how hard the creators have been working to get this off the ground. On April 27, 2018 at the Baltimore Convention...
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