I miss cassettes and CDs. I used my thumbnail to slice open the plastic. It took a couple of tries, but I finally got it. I still remember what it smelled like. I took out the J-card and it was as long as a CVS receipt, and there was a comic printed on it. This was some Grade A nerdiness, and I was intrigued.
If anything can be said about Abrams ComicArts books, it’s that they are undeniably beautiful. Aside from what lies within
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Hello Folks, It has been a minute. I’ve been working on too many projects so I’m not able to write
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It’s been four years and a few weeks since Marvel’s Black Panther leveled the pop-sphere with a 1.344 billion USD box office and a legion of new and reinvigorated fans.
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Our public discourse has been overrun with the phantoms of “Critical Race Theory” and “Cancel Culture.” These ideas are like
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Greenwood, Oklahoma aka “Black Wall Street,” dubbed so by Booker T. Washington, was a once thriving Black community. Thoroughly segregated
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I am a new convert to horror. I was firmly in my comics, SF, SpecFic, fantasy bag for decades until
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As we all know, what’s considered “good” is purely and highly subjective. Even our own tastes are subject to change depending on our moods. But in this “best of” debate, there is one comic that has always been in my top 5 best comics/graphic novels of all time, from the moment I read it. It fundamentally changed how I read comics, how I viewed the medium, and it gave me a greater and more profound appreciation of what the comic form could do.
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“A Study in Scarlet” was first published in Beeton’s Christmas Annual in 1887. 134 years later, we’re still fascinated by the arrogant detective and the world he inhabits. What is it about Holmes that continues to intrigue us? Is it his quest to right wrongs? His disciplined mind? Or is it some kind of elusive quality that we cannot decipher, but know that we need?
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Afrofuturism is having a moment. First posited by journalist Mark Dery in the early 1990s, Afrofuturism is now a full-blown social, cultural, psychological, technological, and aesthetic movement. And never has this movement, this moment, been more fully realized than in Tim Fielder’s magnum opus, Infinitum. To call it a graphic novel would be to undercut it’s value. It is an enterprise of speculative cultural cartography.
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One of the the greatest cultural tragedies of the digital era is that De La Soul’s early music isn’t streaming.
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In addition to Jennings writing the book, this is the first book from his Abrams ComicArts imprint, Megascope. His intention with Megascope is to bring together the most exciting artists and writers to create the most intriguing work. If After the Rain is any indication of future Megascope offerings, we’ll be in for stellar work for years to come.
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Hello NOCers. I hope all of you are surviving our new reality as best you can. My new podcast, Surviving
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It’s Black August. In commemoration of this day, Wakanda Dream Lab + Policy Link have released the free augmented reality
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Anyone who knows me knows I love The Wizarding World. My entire family does. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone was the first
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Hello NOCers, I had the pleasure of speaking with key cast members and show runner of HBO’s Lovecraft Country, Misha
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Why Lovecraft? How could a virulent racist’s work be used to tell the story of Black folks in the height of the 1950s Jim Crow era United States?
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Ghost Squad is a middle grade/young audiences (depending on their tolerance for the spooky) novel that does so many things
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In just over a month, Spike Lee’s masterful Do the Right Thing will be 31 years old. Me and a
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As some of you know, I spent some time with the Pop Culture Collaborative as their Senior Fellow on Fandoms and
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First, I’m hoping that all you NOCers (and your loved ones) are as safe and as healthy as you can
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As soon as I was exposed to it, I was a rabid fan of Star Trek. We share a birthday,
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