Dear America,Fuck you.Fuck you for your liesOf exceptionalism Of white supremacyOf manifest destinyOf representation Fuck you doublyFor your “All men are created equal” bullshit.Not just for your “3/5 of a human if you’re brown” bullshit Not just for your “Not if you have a vagina” bullshitNot just for your “Not if you don’t conform to the traditional genital-to-feelings …
Character design for a long-gestating story called Vampironaut.
Here are videos of talks John Jennings and I have given about our latest published work, Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Novel Adaptation. (Available now from Abrams ComicArts, wherever fine books are sold, support your indie booksellers and local comic shops!) First up, here we are on January 18, in discussion …
I’ve been working on writing the script for the graphic novel adaptation of Parable of the Sower. I’m about halfway through.* (*Or rather I was when I originally wrote this post. I’ve just now come back to it today, at the point where I’m working on the script for the sequel, Parable of the Talents, and …
Off Register is a self-portrait I made out of a couple drawings from an academic comic I’m working on.
I really don’t care about the Oscars. I say that every year, generally avoid the awards show, but of course I catch the highlights online the next day, when it seems less hypocritical to admit to myself that, okay, sure, I guess I care a little, for some reason. But this year, I really don’t care …
Here’s my full schedule for San Diego Comic Con 2017. Other than that, I’ll be wandering the con floor, crowdsurfing those protestors who stand across the street and yell about how everyone’s going to hell, and/or cosplaying as someone who doesn’t have social anxiety!
I’m sorry we broke the New York Times. Well, not the entire New York Times, which still features some fine reporting, and certainly not even the entire Book Review, which just published a wonderful, precise review by N.K. Jemisin. But I guess John Jennings and I did break the graphic novel bestseller lists part of the NYT. …
How you been, Internet? Me, I’ve been travelling to the awesome Black Comic Book Festival and Black Comix Art Fest, and then recovering from that travel while my children did me like Hop on Pop for daring to be away from the house for like 6 days. And along the way there, Kindred hit number one on the …
The graphic novel adaptation of Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred that I wrote/lettered and John Jennings drew will be released by Abrams ComicArts on January 10, 2017 (available for pre-order now). In recognition of that momentous occasion, I’m writing 31 blog posts about the path from novel to graphic novel. This is 31 Days Of Kindred. …