Update: This Wednesday we celebrate black women in the comic industry #womenswednesday
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- Eve L. Ewing
Dr. Eve Louise Ewing is a writer and a sociologist of education from Chicago. Ewing is a prolific writer across multiple genres. Her 2018 book Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism & School Closings on Chicago’s South Side explores the relationship between the closing of public schools and the structural history of race and racism in Chicago’s Bronzeville community.
Ewing’s first collection of poetry, essays, and visual art, Electric Arches, was published by Haymarket Books in 2017. Her second collection, 1919, tells the story of the race riot that rocked Chicago in the summer of that year. Her first book for elementary readers, Maya and the Robot, is forthcoming in 2020 from Kokila, an imprint of Penguin Random House.
Her work has been published in many venues, including The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Nation, The Washington Post, The New Republic, Poetry Magazine, and the anthology American Journal: Fifty Poems for Our Time, curated by Tracy K. Smith, Poet Laureate of the United States. With Nate Marshall, she co-wrote the play No Blue Memories: The Life of Gwendolyn Brooks, produced by Manual Cinema and commissioned by the Poetry Foundation. She also currently writes the Champions series for Marvel Comics and previously wrote the acclaimed Ironheart series, as well as other projects.
- Nalo Hopkinson
Nalo Hopkinson is a Jamaican-born writer and editor who lives in Canada. Her science fiction and fantasy novels and short stories often draw on Caribbean history and language, and its traditions of oral and written storytelling.
- Alitha Martinez
Alitha E. Martinez is an American comic book artist best known for her work on for Marvel Comics’ Iron Man, the Heroes webcomics, and DC’s Batgirl. Over the course of her career she has worked for all the major comic book publishers, including Marvel, DC Comics, Image Comics, and Archie Comics.
- Jules Rivera
Jules is an illustrator, graphic novelist, colorist, animator, and writer, prompting SyFy Wire to call her “a multi-talented force in indie comics.” She contributed to the Eisner Award-winning Puerto Rico Strong (Lion Forge) and Ringo Award-winning Where We Live, A Benefit for the Survivors in Las Vegas (Image Comics). Jules is the co-creator of Spectre Deep 6, a sci-fi graphic novel series by Turner publishing, Love, Joolz, a weekly autobiographical cartoon strip, Love, Joolz, and feminist sci-fi epic, Valkyrie Squadron.
She also creates sci-fi designs for TV and film and teaches storyboarding at California Lutheran University. She lives and works in LA and goes surfing on the weekends.
- Taneka Stotts
Taneka Stotts is a writer and editor of multiple comics titles. She is the writer of the Webcomic Full Circle and has also written titles like “Love and Sprockets” and “Deja Brew.” Stotts is also the editor of Beyond: The Queer Sci-Fi and Fantasy Comic Anthology and is currently working on Elements, a comics anthology spotlighting comics by creators of color.
- Erika Alexander
Erika Alexander, is an actress and writer famous for roles such as Pam Tucker from The Cosby Show and Maxine Shaw from the 90’s sitcom Living Single. However, Alexander is also the scribe behind the spectacular sci-fi comic Concrete Park. You may remember this title from the previous post in this series; her husband Tony Puryear provides the art.
- Myisha Haynes
Myisha Haynes is the creator of The Substitutes, a webcomic about 3 substitute superheroes who stumble onto magical weapons not meant for them. Myisha is also a video game artist.
- Micheline Hess
Micheline Hess is the writer and artist on the all-ages fantasy adventure Malice in Ovenland and the iPad comic The Anansi Kids. Hess was at one time a colorist for Milestone Comics, and she is the senior designer at an ad agency called Publicis North America by day.
- Angela Robinson
Angela Robinson is a writer and filmmaker who has written for the HBO series Hung and True Blood. She directed D.E.B.S., an award-winning film that centered the stories of lesbian and bisexual spy school prodigies. Robinson wrote the first four issues of DC Comics The Web and is one of only two black women to write comics for the publisher.
- Nilah Magruder
Nilah Magruder is the author of M.F.K., a middle-grade graphic novel and winner of the Dwayne McDuffie Award for Diversity, and How to Find a Fox, a picture book. She has published short stories in Fireside Magazine and the anthology All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages. Nilah has also written for Marvel Comics, illustrated children’s books for Disney-Hyperion, Scholastic, and Penguin, and worked as a writer and storyboard artist in television animation. She is currently illustrating Creaky Acres, a middle-grade graphic novel about horseback riding. When she is not working, Nilah is watching movies, growing herbs, and fighting her cat for control of her desk chair.
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