Diversity Comic Con at FIT makes room for everyone at the comics table
The second annual Diversity Comic Con offered a variety of programming.
To do today: Diversity Comic Con in NYC with Roz Chast and more
Chast will keynote at this free one day event.
Jazzlyn Stone just launched a line of pronoun lanyards, and they’re awesome — here’s...
Stone worked with designer Akana Fujii to create the lanyards, which are uniform in color, pattern and font choice.
Randolph, Osajyefo & Illidge on Black Excellence in comics
Khary Randolph, Kwanzaa Osajyefo, and Joseph Illidge had a frank and open discussion on race in comics and in real life.
NYCC ’19: How increased diversity leads to more opportunities for all creators
"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
A Blues-playing, black sorcerer wants to know why there's a price on his head.
An important year ahead for Latinxs in comics
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?
Black Comic Book Festival ’19 was a revolutionary celebration of blackness in comics
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...
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...
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
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
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...
