Diversity

To do today: Diversity Comic Con in NYC with Roz Chast and more

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Chast will keynote at this free one day event.
Pronoun Lanyards

Jazzlyn Stone just launched a line of pronoun lanyards, and they’re awesome — here’s...

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Stone worked with designer Akana Fujii to create the lanyards, which are uniform in color, pattern and font choice.
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Randolph, Osajyefo & Illidge on Black Excellence in comics

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Khary Randolph, Kwanzaa Osajyefo, and Joseph Illidge had a frank and open discussion on race in comics and in real life. 
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NYCC ’19: How increased diversity leads to more opportunities for all creators

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"More pie for everyone doesn't mean less pie for you."

Black History Month Comics: Crescent City Monsters by Newton Lilavois and Gian Carlo Bernal

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A Blues-playing, black sorcerer wants to know why there's a price on his head.
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An important year ahead for Latinxs in comics

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Do Latino comics creators have a mainstream visibility issue? Where do creators like George Perez and Fabián Nicieza fall in the history of Latino writers comics?
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Black Comic Book Festival ’19 was a revolutionary celebration of blackness in comics

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The 7th annual Black Comic Book Festival, which took place on January 18-19 at the Schomburg Center in Harlem, was a fierce statement on black representation in comics. Not a plea but an actual...

Diversity Comic Con: a more focused comics experience that looks to the future of...

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By Ricardo Serrano Denis There is an undeniable charm to smaller, more thematically-specific comics conventions. They promote conversation and an exchange of ideas that tends to get lost in the bigger, louder, and more...

NYCC ’18: Old Classics, New Voices – What Today’s Diverse Creators think of the...

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    By Adam Karenina Sherif Content Warnings: sexual assault, sexism, racism This past weekend at NYCC saw a number of panels which earnestly attempted to push into more critical comics territory. Moderator Elana Levin, a comics podcaster...

Editorial: Complaining about politics in entertainment when they’ve been intertwined for decades

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Here’s the thing about women, people of color, and gender queer characters growing closer to the spotlight and taking center stage in entertainment: Most industries, for decades, have been dominated by white men. I’m...

SDCC ’18: Diversity & Inclusivity–I Wish I Had This When I Was a Kid

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When you see yourself represented in the world, you see your value. Comic books continue to be a home for stories of marginalized groups, but how best to keep the momentum and add more...

The Gibbs Girls’ “The Invention of E.J. Whitaker” Shows We Need More Women of...

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Over the years that I’ve contributed for The Beat, I’ve gotten to preview some pretty-interesting projects in the making, as well as talk to their equally-interesting creators. A little more than two years ago, I had a phone interview with two women who called themselves the “Gibbs Girls.” They were working on a steam-punk inspired comic that takes place at the dawn of the 20th century and during the Industrial Age. The story followed a female, African American inventor named Ada Turner who creates the first flying machine. Last week, the Gibbs Girls reached out and informed me that the comic had finally come out.

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