Ajala fan art

By Damian Duffy on

I do a lot of drawing that I never think are finished that end up hiding in folders on my computer, waiting for some mythical day when I’ll get an illustration “done.” In the spirit of not doing that anymore, here’s a drawing I did of the protagonist from the comic Ajala: A Series of …

Tan Lee Cut Up

By Damian Duffy on

I co-create a book called Kid Code: Channel Zero with artist(s) Black Kirby (a.k.a. Stacey Robinson & John Jennings). Since Stacey and the J2 already had the art completed on the book when they gave it to me to write/letter (what’s sometimes called the Marvel Method), I decided we should all get a co-credit as …

WDRD and Intergalactic Rap Battle

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Two pieces I made for the instupitious Afrofuturism exhibition Unveiling Visions: The Alchemy of the Black Imagination. The first is a logo for the fictional radio station WDRD, from Janelle Monáe’s album The Electric Lady. The second is a flyer for the Intergalactic Rap Battle hyped on a few tracks from Deltron 3030.    

We find ourselves reflecting

By Damian Duffy on

Somewhere around 30ish and/or 14ish and/or 7ish years ago, I broke into comics. Depending on what counts. If you count just any old comics-making, we must travel back to my oft-told tale of how I became obsessed with Spider-Man at the tender age of 6, when my dad grabbed me a copy of Marvel Tales #192 from a gas …

Milestone Comics Didn’t Fail

By Damian Duffy on

FYI: Back in 2010-2011, I used to blog about comics and race issues at blackcomicbook.com (which is no longer up, so if you want to look at it, to the Internet Wayback Machine with you). Due to a bit of unfortunate miscommunication, I didn’t save the website when it went down, and no one else …