I’ll have two strips in the Color of Comics exhibit at this weekend’s Miami Book Fair, which seems to have taken rapidly to comics and graphic novels. Hear hear.
Does the Color of Comics Matter?
Friday, November 13, 6:30 p.m., Centre Gallery, Third Floor, Bldg. 1
Is there a need for race and multicultural representation in comics? Does the presence or absence of certain people in an entertainment medium affect the way they are perceived in the real world? Is “looking for a face like mine†relevant at a time when this nation has a black president?
These and other questions will be explored when artists featured in the Color of Comics art exhibit sit down with moderator and show curator Alex Simmons, writer for Archie Comics. Panelists include syndicated cartoonist Jerry Kraft, Mama’s Boyz; Ray Felix, Runaway Slave; Dawud Anyabwile, Brotherman; Fernando Ruiz, Archie Comics; and Anne Sibley O’Brien, The Legend of Hong Kil Dong.
