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Comic-Con Anaheim Convention center Anaheim California Exhibit hall with comics, original art, toys and merchandice for many popular artist, pubushers and retailers....
Tales to Astonish: Jack Kirby, Stan Lee, and the American Comic Book Revolution
Tales to Astonish: Jack Kirby, Stan Lee, and the American Comic Book Revolution Ronin Ro The spectacular life and times of Jack Kirby, the legendary forefather of America...
Aaron McGruder
Aaron McGruder Aaron McGruder was born on May 29, 1974, in Chicago, Illinois. He is a cartoonist best known for writing and drawing The Boondocks, a Universal Press Syndi...
APB: Artists against Police Brutality: A Comic Book Anthology
APB: Artists against Police Brutality: A Comic Book Anthology Bill Campbell An incredibly unique comic book benefit project featuring comic shorts, pin-ups, short essays,...
Marvel’s Black Panther: A Comic Book Biography, From Stan Lee to Ta-Nehisi Coates
Marvel’s Black Panther: A Comic Book Biography, From Stan Lee to Ta-Nehisi Coates Todd Steven Burroughs Created by Marvel Comics Legends Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, The B...
Birth of a Nation: A Comic Novel
Birth of a Nation: A Comic Novel Aaron McGruder This scathingly hilarious political satire—produced from a collaboration of three of our funniest humorists—answers th...
The Be-Bop Barbarians: Comic Book Bohemians to a 1950s Jazz Beat
The Be-Bop Barbarians: Comic Book Bohemians to a 1950s Jazz Beat Gary Phillips In the turbulent era of late 1950s Manhattan―with jazz, the burgeoning Civil Rights Movem...
Marvel’s Black Panther
The 2016 San Diego Comic-Con was a memorable moment for independent researcher and writer Todd Steven Burroughs. Burroughs begins Marvel’s Black Panther: A Comic Bo...
Keith Knight
Keith Knight Keith Knight is a cartoonist who was born and raised in the Boston area. Weaned on a steady diet of Star Wars, hip-hop, racism and Warner Bros. cartoons,...
Richard Pryor
Richard Pryor Richard Pryor December 1, 1940 - December 10, 2005 Before he was doubling over audience members with profanity-laced sketches and stories, thus ig...
What Happened to the Best African American Literary Magazines?
I'm a collector. My family calls it hoarding. While I'm a big proponent of electronic books, I still love to surround myself with books and magazines. Recently I h...
Great Books, Events, Films & More - October 2015 eNewsletter
AALBC.com’s Best Selling Books — July/August 2015 We just published our ten best selling fiction, nonfiction, and children’s books for the period July 1 through ...
Dwayne McDuffie
Dwayne McDuffie Dwayne McDuffie (February 20, 1962 – February 21, 2011) was a comic and television writer. He was known for creating the animated television ser...
Tyrese Gibson - "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" Interview
Always Tyrese! Tyrese Darnell Gibson was born in Los Angeles on December 30, 1978. He and his three siblings were raised in the Watts s...
100 Bestselling Authors, New Books, and More: October 2016 eNewsletter
Our Top 100, All-time, Bestselling Authors We are excited to present our regularly updated list of our top 100, all-time, bestselling authors. This list of bestselling a...
Bill Murray
Bill Murray Bill Murray served his art apprenticeship with Johnson Publishing Company, which publishes Ebony and Jet magazines. In 1985 Murray created BAM Productions,...
Jackie Ormes
Jackie Ormes Zelda Jackson “Jackie” Ormes (1910 (abt) - Dec. 25, 1985), by most accounts, became the first nationally syndicated African-American woman cartoonis...
Right Where I Left You
Right Where I Left You Julian Winters “Some books are downright fun, and Right Where I Left You is one … Winters sends a quiet but important message that queer Black ...
The Knight Life: "Chivalry Ain’t Dead"
The Knight Life: "Chivalry Ain’t Dead" Keith Knight The Knight Life is a hilariously twisted view of life through the eyes and pen of its creator, community-oriented ur...
50 Best Places to Meet Other Book Lovers Online
Editor’s Note: This article was updated in April 2017 to show sites that are no longer active or have completely shut down (they are striked out) due, in part...
Jerry Craft
Jerry Craft Jerry Craft is a cartoonist and children’s book illustrator best known for his syndicated newspaper comic strip Mama’s Boyz. Craft is one of only a handfu...
NOMMO
NOMMO NOMMO Lyrical Alchemy - Volume 1 Listen to some excerpts from the NOMMO CDNOMMO Lyrical Alchemy Volume One is the first in a series of books, ...
To Ensure a Bright Future, Your Teen Needs to be Reading
“To Ensure a Bright Future, Your Teen Needs to be Reading” Rhiannon Paille, Offers Tips for Getting Adolescents to Turn the Page Being able to ...
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360� A Revolution of Black Poets Produced in the tradition of the Black Poetry Festivals and Conferences of the Black Arts Movement, this first Natio...
Naseed Gifted
Naseed Gifted Naseed Gifted is an educator, engineer and writer from Newark, New Jersey. Something that was once his childhood hobby has spring-boarded into a passion to ...
Encyclopedia of Black Comics
Encyclopedia of Black Comics Sheena C. Howard The Encyclopedia of Black Comics, focuses on people of African descent who have published significant works in the United St...
Loving Day: A Novel
Loving Day: A Novel Mat Johnson Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the San Francisco Chronicle • NPR • Men’s Journal • The Denver Post ̶...
Furious Cool: Richard Pryor And The World That Made Him
Furious Cool: Richard Pryor And The World That Made Him David Henry and Joe Henry “Addictively readable … Someday, when fewer people know Richard Pryor’s name, Furi...
Maximum Fantastic Four
Maximum Fantastic Four Stan Lee and Walter Mosley Ushering in momentous change in comic-book illustration and ingenuity, Jack Kirby’s immense artistic contribution to F...
Texas Battle - The "Dragonball Evolution" Interview
Born in Houston on August 9, 1980, Texas Battle earned his bachelor's degree in kinesiology at the University of Texas before making his w...
Jennifer Cruté
Jennifer Cruté Jennifer Cruté started writing comics in 2003. She is featured in a Current TV segment about women in comics called "KAPOW! The New Comic Boo...
Kerry G. Johnson
Kerry G. Johnson Kerry G. Johnson knew he was a gifted artist after winning an art contest as a kindergartner in his hometown of Nashville, TN. “Ever since I was...
Walking on Cowrie Shells: Stories
Walking on Cowrie Shells: Stories Nana Nkweti A “boisterous and high-spirited debut” (Kirkus starred review)“that enthralls the reader through their every twist and...
Frederick Joseph
Frederick Joseph Frederick Joseph is an award-winning marketing professional, media representation advocate, and writer who was recently selected for the Forbes 30 Under ...
A Day Late and a Dollar Short
The publishing world and the legions of Terry McMillan fans can now officially exhale. McMillan’s long awaited "serious" novel, A Day Late and A Dol...
Aisha Tyler - The "Balls of Fury and Death Sentence" Interview
Balls of Fury Photos: ’ Rogue Pictures Born in San Francisco on September 18, 1970, Aisha Tyler was raised from the age of ten by her father, Jim, a ...
Captain America: The Shield of Sam Wilson
Captain America: The Shield of Sam Wilson Jesse J. Holland The Last Stand of the Black Captain America asks a compelling question: the new Captain America has a big shiel...
Kerry James Marshall: Rythm Mastr. This Is How It Begins
Kerry James Marshall: Rythm Mastr. This Is How It Begins Kerry James Marshall The Iconic Comic Created by Contemporary African American Artist Kerry James Marshall Ker...
Black Panther: A Cultural Exploration
Black Panther: A Cultural Exploration Ytasha L. Womack Take an engrossing deep dive into the cultural influences of Black Panther, from the development of the Marvel Comi...
The History of Sketch Comedy: A Journey Through the Art and Craft of Humor
The History of Sketch Comedy: A Journey Through the Art and Craft of Humor Keegan-Michael Key and Elle Key Authors Keegan-Michael Key and Elle Key build on the popularity...
Wash Day Diaries
Wash Day Diaries Jamila Rowser From writer Jamila Rowser and artist Robyn Smith comes a captivating graphic novel love letter to the beauty and endurance of Black women, ...
Luster
Luster Raven Leilani Sharp, comic, disruptive, tender, Raven Leilani’s debut novel, Luster, sees a young black woman fall into art and someone else’s open marriageEdi...
Negrophobia: An Urban Parable
Negrophobia: An Urban Parable Darius James "In this social-media era, when we are more intent than ever on isolating things that offend and outrage, Negrophobia revels in...
I Am Gandhi: A Graphic Biography of a Hero
I Am Gandhi: A Graphic Biography of a Hero Brad Meltzer Twenty-five exceptional comic book creators join forces to share the heroic story of Gandhi in this inspiring grap...
Mauskaveli Coloring Book
Mauskaveli Coloring Book Sumiko Saulson Coloring book with images from the Mauskaveli comic books rendered as line art, ready for coloring with markers or crayons. This i...
Pryor Lives!: How Richard Pryor Became Richard Pryor Or Kiss My Rich, Happy Black…Ass! A Memoir
Pryor Lives!: How Richard Pryor Became Richard Pryor Or Kiss My Rich, Happy Black…Ass! A Memoir Cecil Brown Pryor Lives! How Richard Pryor Became Richard Pryor By Cecil...
Black Comics: Politics of Race and Representation
Black Comics: Politics of Race and Representation Sheena C. Howard and Ronald L. Jackson II Bringing together contributors from a wide-range of critical perspectives, Bla...
God Carlos
God Carlos Anthony C. Winkler A Finalist for the 2014 Townsend Prize for Fiction!God Carlos has been long-listed for the OMC Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature in Trini...
Quantum Lyrics: Poems
Quantum Lyrics: Poems A. Van Jordan "Fearless hybridization…. Jordan creates spaces where physics and poetry, comic books and jazz, memory and loss, come together."―A...
The City Of Refuge [New And Expanded Edition]: The Collected Stories Of Rudolph Fisher
The City Of Refuge [New And Expanded Edition]: The Collected Stories Of Rudolph Fisher Rudolph Fisher One of the premier writers of the Harlem Renaissance, Rudolph Fisher...
The Complete K Chronicles
The Complete K Chronicles Keith Knight The Complete K Chronicles gathers together hundreds of Keith Knight’s funniest, sharpest, most touching, and topical K Chronicles...
Red, White, Black And Blue: A (th)ink anthology
Red, White, Black And Blue: A (th)ink anthology Keith Knight A cross between Gary Larson’s The Far Side and Aaron McGruder’s The Boondocks, (th)ink is the latest comi...
Rudy Park: The People Must Be Wired
Rudy Park: The People Must Be Wired Darrin Bell and Theron Heir Rudy Park: The People Must Be Wired is the hilarious first collection of the technocentric comic strip Rud...
Cosbyology: Essays and Observations From the Doctor of Comedy
Cosbyology: Essays and Observations From the Doctor of Comedy Bill Cosby Description: Returning to his early days of comedy, the comic genius and #1 New York Times bests...
If I Stop I’ll Die: The Comedy and Tragedy of Richard Pryor
If I Stop I’ll Die: The Comedy and Tragedy of Richard Pryor John A. Williams and Dennis A. Williams Though it would be hard to imagine an America without a Richard Pryo...
Why Diversity in Children’s Literature is Important
A Keynote Address Delivered by Jewell Parker Rhodes April 30, 2015, during the American Booksellers Association’s ABC Children’s Institute 2015. ...
Brandon T. Jackson - The "Tropic Thunder" Interview
Brandon on Breakout Role in Tropic Thunder Brandon T. Jackson was born in Detroit on March 7, 1984 to preachers Bishop Wayne T. and Dr. Beverly Y...
Ken Burns Interviewed (April 2013).
Legendary Filmmaker Discusses His Latest Documentary Photo Credit dbking Ken Burns has been making films for more than thirty years. Since the Academy Award-no...
Marlon Wayans “A Haunted House” Interview (2013)
Marlon Wayans “A Haunted House” Interview Multi-talented Marlon Wayans graduated from the prestigious High School of Performing Arts in New York and Howard Uni...
Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain
Hottest Stand-Up Comic Wows Sold-Out Garden in Concert Tour Finale Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain In Theaters: Jul 3, 2013 Limited Documentary, Musical & Performing Ar...
Siku
Siku Siku—artist, author, theologian, and musician— is one of Britain’s leading comic book/concept artists having worked for 2000AD; producing titles such as Judge ...
Morrie Turner
Morrie Turner Morris Nolton "Morrie" Turner (December 11, 1923 – January 25, 2014) was an American cartoonist, creator of the strip Wee Pals, the first Am...
Ray Billingsley
Ray Billingsley Ray Billingsley (born July 25, 1957) is the creator of “Curtis”. Billingsley draws from real life, and the strip has the fresh quality of si...
Zoe Johnson
Zoe Johnson Zoe Johnson loves to draw. More importantly, Zoe loves to draw comic strips. At 8 years old she has already created two memorable characters J...
Eric M. Cooper
Eric M. Cooper Eric Mann Cooper is a Sci-Fi/Superhero author from New Jersey with a series of published books called Knight Seeker that take place in the modern Tri-State...
Shawn Martinbrough
Shawn Martinbrough Shawn Martinbrough is the author of How to Draw Noir Comics and an Eisner Award-nominated artist whose comic book projects include Batman: Detective Co...
Bianca Xunise
Bianca Xunise Bianca Xunise is a cartoonist based out of Chicago, Illinois. Their work primarily focuses on the plight, joy, and daily struggles of misfits within the Bla...
Howard Rambsy II
Howard Rambsy II Howard Rambsy II is a Distinguished Research Professor of Literature at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE), where he specializes in Afr...
The Avengers
Superheroes Unite to Save the Planet in ‘Marvel’ous Comic Book Adaptation The Avengers [2012] In Theaters: May 4, 2012 Wide Rated PG-13 for intense viole...
It’s Pimpin’ Pimpin’
It’s Pimpin’ Pimpin’ Click to order via AmazonUnrated Running time: 77 minutes Studio: Salient Media/Vivendi Enterta...
Transformers
Morphing Robots Square-Off in CGI-Driven Adventure Transformers Rated PG-13 for profanity, brief sexual humor, and intense sci-fi vio...
Watchmen
Long-Awaited Adaptation of Graphic Novel an Underwhelming Disappointment Watchmen Rated R for full frontal nudity, sexuality, ...
The Denzel Principle: Why Black Women Can’t Find Good Black Men
"What do black women want? The truth? They are looking for Denzel Washington. They have been so thoroughly brainwashed, that black women don’t know what a good ...
Pain & Gain
Crime Caper Recreates Real-Life Kidnapping Plot Pain & Gain (2013) In Theaters: Apr 26, 2013 Limited Rated R for graphic nudity, bloody violence, crude sexuality, ...
Marvel’s Storm: Disaster Alert! (National Geographic Kids Readers, Level 1)
Marvel’s Storm: Disaster Alert! (National Geographic Kids Readers, Level 1) Daka Hermon Marvel’s X-Men Favorite Storm and Her Super-Powered Friends Introduce Early Re...
C2E2
C2E2 McCormick Place Chicago Illinois Comic, cosplay, gaming, wrestling, anime pop culture convention...
Manga Bible: The Story of God in a Graphic Novel
Manga Bible: The Story of God in a Graphic Novel Siku Manga comics, the most popular literary form in Japan and Korea, are the fastest growing genre in British and Americ...
I Am Jesse Owens
I Am Jesse Owens Brad Meltzer Just in time for the Summer Olympics, this 33rd book in the New York Times bestselling biography series for ages 5 to 9 features one of the ...
The Change
The Change Whoopi Goldberg Whoopi Goldberg brings new meaning to what it means to be a superhero in a new graphic novel! Isabel Frost is a woman who has spent her life...
Ellie Engle Saves Herself
Ellie Engle Saves Herself Leah Johnson Ellie Engle doesn’t stand out. Not at home, where she’s alone with her pet fish since her dad moved away and her mom has to wor...
Link + Hud: Heroes by a Hair
Link + Hud: Heroes by a Hair Jerome Pumphrey and Jarrett Pumphrey Lincoln and Hudson Dupré are brothers with what grown-ups call "active imaginations." Link and Hu...
Now Let Me Fly: A Portrait of Eugene Bullard
Now Let Me Fly: A Portrait of Eugene Bullard Brahm Revel From author Ronald Wimberly, creator of the viral comic Lighten Up, comes a soaring graphic biography that casts ...
Tephlon Funk!
Tephlon Funk! Stephane Metayer Tephlon Funk! is more than a comic, it’s a cultural movement! Writer Stephane Metayer with artists David Tako and Nicolas Safe bring an a...
Undercover Latina
Undercover Latina Aya de León A Latina teen spy goes undercover as a white girl to stop a white supremacist terrorist plot in a fast-paced middle-grade debut from a seas...
Batman is Jesus
Batman is Jesus Siku Artist-theologian Siku, creator of The Manga Bible and artist on Judge Dredd, introduces the concept of Narrative Theology - and the specific subset ...
Invisible Things: A Novel
Invisible Things: A Novel Mat Johnson ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2022—The Millions A sharp allegorical novel about a hidden human civilization, a crucial e...
Hell of a Book: A Novel
Hell of a Book: A Novel Jason Mott Winner of the 2021 Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction, Joyce Carol Oates Literary Prize Finalist, 2022 Chautauqua Prize Finalist, Wil...
Black Buck
Black Buck Mateo Askaripour “Askaripour closes the deal on the first page of this mesmerizing novel, executing a high wire act full of verve and dark, comic energy.” ...
Far Sector
Far Sector N. K. Jemisin Winner of the 2022 Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story or Comic! The first murder in 500 years. Twenty billion suspects. One hope. The City E...
Artistic Activism of Elombe Brath
Artistic Activism of Elombe Brath Elombe Brath and Thomas Aiello Collected for the first time, an exploration of the artwork and commentary of a forgotten activist during...
The Sellout
The Sellout Paul Beatty The Sellout, won the Man Booker Prize on October 25, 2016. Paul Beatty is the first American to win the award. The Sellout is also: Winner o...
Bamboozled by Jesus: How God Tricked Me Into the Life of My Dreams
Bamboozled by Jesus: How God Tricked Me Into the Life of My Dreams Yvonne Orji Thriving stand-up comic and actress Yvonne Orji—best known as Issa Rae’s BFF on the HBO...
Robert Smalls: Tales of the Talented Tenth, No. 3
Robert Smalls: Tales of the Talented Tenth, No. 3 Joel Christian Gill “Joel Christian Gill’s shows how ordinary people fight for our collective liberation and whose...
Sharks in the Time of Saviors
Sharks in the Time of Saviors Kawai Strong Washburn WINNER OF THE 2020 PEN/HEMINGWAY AWARD FOR DEBUT NOVEL. One of Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of 2020. A finalist ...
The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History
The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History David F. Walker A bold and fascinating graphic novel history of the revolutionary Black Panther Party. Founded in Oakl...
Summer of Everything
Summer of Everything Julian Winters Adulting is hard. Just ask Wes Hudson. An avid comic book geek, Wes excels at two things: slacking off and pining after his best f...
You Don’t Have to Go to Mars for Love
You Don’t Have to Go to Mars for Love Yona Harvey The poems of award-winning poet Yona Harvey’s much anticipated You Don’t Have to Go to Mars for Love follow an unn...
Shirley Chisholm Is a Verb
Shirley Chisholm Is a Verb Veronica Chambers Veronica Chambers is the award-winning author of many books for children and adults, including Mama’s Girl and Celia Cruz, ...
The Housing Lark
The Housing Lark Samuel Selvon The humorous yet poignant novel of West Indian migrant life in London that adds an iconic voice to the growing Caribbean canon Set in Lond...
Project Middle School (Alyssa Milano’s Hope #1), 1
Project Middle School (Alyssa Milano’s Hope #1), 1 Alyssa Milano and Debbie Rigaud From actor and lifelong activist Alyssa Milano comes Hope Roberts, a girl who’s det...