Tag: race in comics

Keith Knight will also talk on race and comics

Aside from company wide cataclysms, unquestionably the biggest periodical comics event of ealry 2016 is The Black Panther b y Ta-Nehisi Coates and Brian Stelfreeze. It's not too often that you get the most lauded intellectual of the moment to write a comic book, and when the subject matter and provennance combine - the greatest black superhero written by the author of the most powerful contemporary exploration of race in America - and you have something that could be important.