Wednesday, January 13, 2021

The 9th Annual Black Comic Book Festival :ALREADY IN PROGESS

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 The 9th Annual BLACK COMIC BOOK FESTIVAL 

THURSDAY, JANUARY 14

1:00 to 2:00 PM | Black Girl Genius with Yesenia Moises, Robyn Smith, Greg Burnham, Okema Moore, Adewunmi Roye Okupe and Erika Hardison

3:00 to 4:00 PM | The BAYlies: A Community of LGBTQ and POC Cartoonists from The Bay Area with Lawrence Lindell and Breena Nuñez

4:30 to 5:30 PM | The Comics Chitlin Circuit: Cultivating a Sustainable Network for Black Cartoonists with Ronald Wimberly, John Jennings, Spike Trotman, Jason Reeves, and Andre Owens


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FRIDAY, JANUARY 15

2:30 to 3:30 PM | #Edcomix: Teaching Hard History Through Comics with Erica Buddington, David Heredia, and Deirdre Hollman

4:00 to 5:00 PM | The Comic Book Spectrum: Comics & Advocacy with Vita Ayala, Alitha E. Martinez, Eric Battle, David Walker, and Regine Sawyer

5:30 to 6:30 PM | MECCAcon presents: Black Animators with Carl Jones, Mad Twiinz, Udeh Brothers, and Maia Crown

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SATURDAY, JANUARY 16

11:10 to 11:50 AM | Tribute to Chadwick Boseman with DeSean Jenkins, Rachelle Darden, Hayward Leach, Kadiatou Tubman and M. Scott Johnson

12:10 to 1:00 PM | Inside HarperCollins Amistad’s INFINITUM: An Afrofuturist Tale with Tim Fielder, Boston Fielder, and Deirdre Hollman

1:30 to 2:30 PM | Views from Megascope: After the Rain and Black Star with John Jennings, Eric A. Glover, Arielle Jovellanos, and David Brame and Calvin Reid

2:45 to 3:45 PM | Meet the Makers!

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4:00 to 5:00 PM | Make It Plain: Social Commentary Thru Comix with Keith Knight, Tee Franklin, Cagen Luse, Janicia Francis, and Tea w/ Queen and J.

More program details are available at www.SchomCom.org.

The festival also offers a marketplace for panelists and other vendors to showcase their creative work for purchase online via the Exhibitors Showcase.

Exhibitors are by invitation only. If you have questions, please email schomburged@nypl.org.

SHOP | Visit the Schomburg Shop online to purchase some of the titles featured during the festival: https://schomburgshop.com.

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PRESS | Please send all press inquiries (photo, video, interviews, audio-recording, etc) at least 24-hours before the day of the program to Christina Santi at christinasanti@nypl.org.

Art by Tim Fielder

Educator Deirdre Hollman, author Jerry Craft, (Mama’s Boyz and The Offenders), Professor John Jennings (University of California, Riverside), and Professor Jonathan Gayles (University of Georgia), cofounded the Black Comic Book Festival in 2013.


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