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Comic-Con
Comic-Con Anaheim Convention center Anaheim California Exhibit hall with comics, original art, toys and merchandice for many popular artist, pubushers and retailers.
Comic-Con International
Comic-Con International San Diego Convention Center San Diego California Comic arts conference, anime, and fim screening .
Marvel’s Black Panther
Marvel’s Black Panther Brenda M. Greene Book Review The 2016 San Diego Comic-Con was a memorable moment for independent researcher and writer Todd Steven Burroughs. Burroughs begins Marvel’s Bl...
The Schomburg Center's Third Annual Black Comic Book
The Schomburg Center's Third Annual Black Comic Book The Schomburg Center's Third Annual Black Comic Book Festival Third Annual Black Comic Book Festival Saturday, January 17, 2015, 10 am - 7 pm 51...
Frederick Joseph
Frederick Joseph 000000011448266X Frederick Joseph, an award-winning marketer and writer, is recognized for his advocacy in media representation. Included in Forbes 30 Under 30, he's also a recipient...
Long White Con: The Biggest Score of His Life
Long White Con: The Biggest Score of His Life Iceberg Slim 9781936399055 Fiction Cash Money Content Simon & Schuster, Inc. Iceberg Slim, best-selling author of Pimp and Trick Baby, brings us yet anoth...
New York Comic Con
New York Comic Con Javitz Center New York New York “…if you’re a speculative fiction author (horror, fantasy, paranormal, urban fantasy, sci-fi, etc.) you should definitely go&rdquo...
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 9781582343457 Nonfiction Bloomsbury USA Bloomsbury Publishing The spectacular life and times of Jack Kirby, the...
Aaron McGruder
Aaron McGruder 0000000037086910 Aaron McGruder, born in Chicago in 1974, is best known for creating the comic strip The Boondocks. Inspired by hip hop and politics, he debuted his work online in 1996...
Bill Murray
Bill Murray 0000000117750359 Bill Murray, a renowned comic artist and illustrator, started at Johnson Publishing Company before founding BAM Productions in 1985. He works with Real Times Media and ha...
Shoff Promotions Comic Con
Shoff Promotions Comic Con Annadale VA Firehouse Expo Hall Derwood Maryland Comic book and non-sports card shows, baseball and sportcard shows, and collectible shows.
Archie Comic Publications
Archie Comic Publications Archie Comic Publications Archie Comic Publications, Inc
Archie Comic Publications
Archie Comic Publications Archie Comic Publications, Inc Archie Comic Publications
Friday Foster: The Sunday Strips
Friday Foster: The Sunday Strips Jim Lawrence 9781950912063 Fiction ABLAZE ABLAZE The Friday Foster comic strip is the story of a former nightclub “camera bunny” turned photographer’s assistant ...
APB: Artists against Police Brutality: A Comic Book Anthology
APB: Artists against Police Brutality: A Comic Book Anthology Bill Campbell 9781495607523 Fiction Rosarium Publishing Rosarium Publishing An incredibly unique comic book benefit project featuring comi...
Barbara Brandon
Barbara Brandon 0000000031564723 Barbara Brandon is the first nationally syndicated African-American female cartoonist. Barbara Brandon-Croft, creator of the comic strip 'Where I’m Coming From', is ce...
Jennifer Cruté
Jennifer Cruté NONE Comic artist and writer Jennifer Cruté, known for her work in BITCH magazine and a Glyph Comic Award nominee, has lectured at several institutions, exhibited her work at various ...
Brooklyn Comic Con
Brooklyn Comic Con The Breeze New York New York Exhibit of cosplay, video games, music, and other entertainment.
Steamy Lit Con
Steamy Lit Con Anaheim Marriott Anaheim California Their goal is to celebrate the romance genre and to amplify the identities in it which have been historically underrepresented. The Steamy Lit Con ai...
El Crossover (Spanish Edition)
El Crossover (Spanish Edition) Kwame Alexander 9780358064725 Fiction Clarion Books HarperCollins Ganador de la Medalla Newbery · Ganador del Premio Coretta Scott King · New York Times Be...
Trick Baby
Trick Baby Iceberg Slim 9781936399017 Fiction Cash Money Content Simon & Schuster, Inc. The author that brought black literature to the streets is back. Weaving stories of deceit, sex, humor and race ...
Sonia Sotomayor: A Judge Grows in the Bronx / La juez que crecio en el Bronx (Spanish and English Edition)
Sonia Sotomayor: A Judge Grows in the Bronx / La juez que crecio en el Bronx (Spanish and English Edition) Jonah Winter 9781442403031 Nonfiction Atheneum Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc....
Cafe con Libros
Cafe con Libros Brooklyn NY Cafe con Libros (coffee with books) is an intersectional Feminist community bookstore and coffee shop. Through our choice of books, programming and great coffee, we endeav...
More Bios.
More Bios. More Bios. 360? A Revolution of Black Poets Produced in the tradition of the Black Poetry Festivals and Conferences of the Black Arts Movement, this first National festi...
Ty’s Travels: Camp-Out
Ty’s Travels: Camp-Out Kelly Starling Lyons 9780063083660 Fiction HarperAlley HarperCollins Ty makes his I Can Read Comic debut! Featuring a bold comic styling by New York Times bestselling illustrato...
Jerry Craft
Jerry Craft 000000050467371X Jerry Craft is a renowned cartoonist, children's book illustrator, and a graduate from the School of Visual Arts. Known for his comic strip Mama's Boyz, he's one of the f...
Morrie Turner
Morrie Turner 0000000021272073 Morris “Morrie” Turner (1923-2014) was an American cartoonist known for creating Wee Pals, the first American syndicated comic strip featuring an integrated cast. Raise...
Ray Billingsley
Ray Billingsley 0000000031424835 Ray Billingsley, creator of the comic strip “Curtis”, draws upon his personal experiences and urban life for inspiration. Born in Wake Forest, N.C., and raised in Har...
Jack Kirby
Jack Kirby 0000000116918041 Jack Kirby, born Jacob Kurtzberg (1917-1994), was an influential American comic book artist, writer, and editor. Notably known for his creation of Captain America and co-c...
David F. Walker
David F. Walker 0000000071165663 David F. Walker is a celebrated comic book writer, author, filmmaker, and scholar. He's known for his award-winning comic 'Shaft' and YA series 'The Adventures of Dar...
Dika Araújo, Natacha Bustos, and Claudia Aguirre
Dika Araújo, Natacha Bustos, and Claudia Aguirre MULTIPLE Claudia Aguirre is a GLAAD & Eisner nominated writer and artist, and co-founder of Boudika Comics. Natacha Bustos is a Spanish comic artist k...
Shawn Martinbrough
Shawn Martinbrough 0000000109567829 Shawn Martinbrough is an Eisner Award-nominated author and artist renowned for his comic book projects including Batman, Luke Cage Noir, Hellboy and more. He's a r...
More Bios.
More Bios. Troy Johnson Article 360� A Revolution of Black Poets Produced in the tradition of the Black Poetry Festivals and Conferences of the Black Arts Movement, this first Nati...
Right Where I Left You
Right Where I Left You Julian Winters 9780593206478 Fiction Viking Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House “Some books are downright fun, and Right Where I Left You is one … Winters sends a quiet...
Naseed Gifted
Naseed Gifted NONE Naseed Gifted, an engineer, educator, and writer from Newark is the Creative Director of PBS Media. Gifted uses his passion for comics to innovate projects that engage all audience...
Captain America: The Shield of Sam Wilson
Captain America: The Shield of Sam Wilson Jesse J. Holland 9781803363875 Fiction Titan Books (UK) Titan Publishing Group The new Captain America has a big shield to carry. Is he up to the task? Find o...
Outdrawn: A Rivals to Lovers Romance
Outdrawn: A Rivals to Lovers Romance Deanna Grey 9798987895542 Fiction Deanna Grey Deanna Grey It isn’t always lonely at the top. Noah Blue’s finally got her foot in the door. After clawing her way t...
Invisible Men: Black Artists of the Golden Age of Comics
Invisible Men: Black Artists of the Golden Age of Comics Ken Quattro 9781684055869 Nonfiction Yoe Books Yoe Books Hear the riveting stories of Black artists who drew, mostly covertly behind the scenes...
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 9781937306649 Nonfiction Diasporic Africa Press Diasporic Africa Press Created by Marvel Comics ...
Mauskaveli Comic
Mauskaveli Comic Sumiko Saulson 9781979825160 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Mauskaveli is a mini-comic/zine about a group of polyamorous, politically active mice. They center around a t...
Encyclopedia of Black Comics
Encyclopedia of Black Comics Sheena C. Howard 9781682751015 Nonfiction Fulcrum Publishing Fulcrum Publishing The Encyclopedia of Black Comics, focuses on people of African descent who have published s...
The Knight Life: "Chivalry Ain’t Dead"
The Knight Life: "Chivalry Ain’t Dead" Keith Knight 9780446548663 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group The Knight Life is a hilariously twisted view of life through the eyes and pen of...
Maximum Fantastic Four
Maximum Fantastic Four Stan Lee and Walter Mosley 9780785117926 Fiction Marvel Comics Marvel Comics Ushering in momentous change in comic-book illustration and ingenuity, Jack Kirby’s immense artistic...
Nikolas Draper-Ivey
Nikolas Draper-Ivey NONE Nikolas Draper-Ivey is an acclaimed comic artist and illustrator known for his unique blend of Japanese and Western comic styles. He has gained substantial recognition and po...
Charles Boyce
Charles Boyce NONE Charles Boyce, a cartoonist known for his syndicated comic panel Compu-Toon, studied art and animation but found his true calling in the realm of cartooning in 1988. His work, ofte...
Dwayne McDuffie
Dwayne McDuffie 0000000120367289 Dwayne McDuffie (February 20, 1962 – February 21, 2011) was a comic and television writer. He was known for creating the animated television series Static ...
Orrin C. Evans
Orrin C. Evans NONE Orrin Cromwell Evans (1902-1971) was a trailblazing African-American journalist and comic book publisher. He's recognized as the first black general assignment reporter for a main...
Siku
Siku 0000000065618187 Siku is a multifaceted British artist, author, theologian, and musician, renowned for his comic book/concept art. He has worked with 2000AD, Marvel UK, and COM X, producing nota...
Gabe Soria
Gabe Soria 0000000109294162 Gabe Soria, renowned for online RPG Sword & Backpack and Midnight Arcade series, has redefined choice-driven kidlit. He's also written DC Comics, including Batman '66, and...
Eric July
Eric July NONE Eric Dewayne July (born April 17, 1990) is a comic book writer, entrepreneur, musician, and media personality. He is the founder of Rippaverse Publishing, an independent comic book co...
Onyxcon
Onyxcon Southwest Arts Center Atlanta Georgia 2018 marked the 10 year anniversary of ONYXCON ! A DECADE. ONXCON is a convention, festival, and celebration. We promote, showcase, educate, and ente...
A Beach House Beginning (Reissue)
A Beach House Beginning (Reissue) Raeanne Thayne and Michelle Lindo-Rice 9781335007452 Fiction Harlequin Harlequin Enterprises Limited Opposites attract for two single parents in this heartfelt romanc...
Book Lovers Con
Book Lovers Con Royal Sonesta Huston Galleria Houston Texas Meet-n-greet with authors and celebrate books.
Standalone: A Dickie Cornish Mystery
Standalone: A Dickie Cornish Mystery Christopher Chambers 9781953103239 Fiction Three Rooms Press Three Rooms Press “Chambers makes the smell and harrowing vibe of the mean streets of the nation’s cap...
Limpin’
Limpin’ Bernadette Y. Connor 9780971583894 Fiction Bee-Con Books Bee-Con Books If you ain’t got love you’re … LIMPIN’. Ida Evers shares all of the trials and victories of their lives together, with he...
A Max le gustan las munecas
A Max le gustan las munecas Zetta Elliott 9781519748348 Fiction Rosetta Press Rosetta Press Max desea visitar una hermosa boutique donde venden vestidos y muñecas, pero le preocupa que otros niños se ...
Pearl and Angela
Pearl and Angela Bernadette Y. Connor 9780971583863 Fiction Bee-Con Books Bee-Con Books "Pearl and Angela" is a suspense-filled story that profoundly chronicles the emotional damages of hatred and cru...
He’s Mine!
He’s Mine! Bernadette Y. Connor 9780971583887 Fiction Bee-Con Books Bee-Con Books What s a girl to do when she moves to a new town and falls in love with the most desired man in town? What s a girl to...
Resurrecting Midnight
Resurrecting Midnight Eric Jerome Dickey 9780525950578 Fiction Dutton Books Penguin Random House After nearly losing his life in Antigua during a mission that went terribly wrong, Gideon trusts no one...
Reparations: Pro & Con
Reparations: Pro & Con Alfred L. Brophy 9780195304077 Nonfiction Oxford University Press, USA Oxford University Press “A book about reparations and its contentious qualities that is a must-read for al...
My Amputations
My Amputations Clarence Major 9781573661430 Fiction Fiction Collective Two (FC2) University of Alabama Press This novel is about a man pursued by his shadow. Its protagonist is either a desperate ex-c...
Damaged!
Damaged! Bernadette Y. Connor 9780971583832 Fiction Bee-Con Books Bee-Con Books Adrena Reynolds is the teenage survivor of years of child abuse that leaves her filled with murderous rage. State- assi...
Inherited
Inherited Bernadette Y. Connor 9780971583849 Fiction Bee-Con Books Bee-Con Books Derrick Dawes is a cafe au lait Adonis who lives comfortably and enjoys bachelorhood. When Derrick receives a call info...
La Resaca
La Resaca Enrique A. Laguerre 9781563283413 Fiction Editorial Plaza Mayor Editorial Plaza Mayor La resaca presenta la atmósfera social, económica y política de la vida isleña durante las últimas tres ...
The Parcel Express Murders
The Parcel Express Murders Bernadette Y. Connor 9780971583818 Fiction Bee-Con Books Bee-Con Books Detectives Hall Hawkins and Edward Clark of the 30th Precinct Homicide Division are assigned the daunt...
Where a Nickel Costs a Dime: Poems
Where a Nickel Costs a Dime: Poems Willie Perdomo 9780393313833 Poetry W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. A first book of poems by one of the best new voices to emerge from the Nuyori...
Sili Recio
Sili Recio NONE Sili Recio, an Afro-Dominican writer and social media influencer with a psychology degree, uses her platform to disrupt norms. She lives in Florida, adores café con leche, and blogs ...
Tower Heist
Tower Heist Kam Williams towerheist.jpg Film Review Victims Turn Tables on Con Man in Murphy-Stiller Buddy Comedy Tower Heist Rated PG-13 for profanity and sexuality. Running time: 104 Minute...
Walking on Cowrie Shells: Stories
Walking on Cowrie Shells: Stories Nana Nkweti 9781644450543 Fiction Graywolf Press Graywolf Press A “boisterous and high-spirited debut” (Kirkus starred review)“that enthralls the reader through their...
Captain America: The Shield of Sam Wilson
Captain America: The Shield of Sam Wilson Jesse J. Holland 9781803367729 Fiction Titan Books (UK) Titan Publishing Group The Last Stand of the Black Captain America asks a compelling question: the new...
The Hardest Part of Schizophrenia Is Spelling Schizophrenia: A Memoir
The Hardest Part of Schizophrenia Is Spelling Schizophrenia: A Memoir Byron Bowers 9780306828454 Nonfiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group Comedian and actor Byron Bowers’ wild, funny, a...
The Hollow Sound of Lightweight Bodies
The Hollow Sound of Lightweight Bodies Unathi Slasha 9781957810485 Fiction Iskanchi Press Iskanchi Press A darkly comic and surreal literary novel set in a South African township, where a young cremat...
Kerry James Marshall: Rythm Mastr. This Is How It Begins
Kerry James Marshall: Rythm Mastr. This Is How It Begins Kerry James Marshall 9780847835614 Nonfiction Rizzoli Electa Rizzoli International Publications The Iconic Comic Created by Contemporary Africa...
Black Panther: A Cultural Exploration
Black Panther: A Cultural Exploration Ytasha L. Womack 9780760375617 Nonfiction Becker & Mayer The Quarto Group Take an engrossing deep dive into the cultural influences of Black Panther, from the dev...
Wash Day Diaries
Wash Day Diaries Jamila Rowser 9781797205458 Fiction Chronicle Books Chronicle Books From writer Jamila Rowser and artist Robyn Smith comes a captivating graphic novel love letter to the beauty and en...
On a Roll!: A Jumpstart Treasury
On a Roll!: A Jumpstart Treasury Robb Armstrong 9781524861629 Fiction Andrews McMeel Publishing Andrews McMeel Publishing "Thirty years after Armstrong’s comics brought diversity to the funny pages of...
Luster
Luster Raven Leilani 9780374194321 Fiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Macmillan Publishers Sharp, comic, disruptive, tender, Raven Leilani’s debut novel, Luster, sees a young black woman fall into art ...
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 9781681777764 Fiction Pegasus Books Pegasus Books In the turbulent era of late 1950s Manhattan―with jazz, the burgeoning ...
All-Negro Comics #1 (Reprint)
All-Negro Comics #1 (Reprint) Orrin C. Evans 9781794099869 Fiction Thomas Publications Thomas Publications “…every brush stroke and pen line in the drawings on these pages are by Negro artists.” All-N...
The Life of Frederick Douglass: A Graphic Narrative of a Slave’s Journey from Bondage to Freedom
The Life of Frederick Douglass: A Graphic Narrative of a Slave’s Journey from Bondage to Freedom David F. Walker 9780399581441 Fiction Ten Speed Press Penguin Random House A graphic novel biography of...
I Am Gandhi: A Graphic Biography of a Hero
I Am Gandhi: A Graphic Biography of a Hero Brad Meltzer 9780525552727 Nonfiction Dial Books Penguin Random House Twenty-five exceptional comic book creators join forces to share the heroic story of Ga...
Mauskaveli Coloring Book
Mauskaveli Coloring Book Sumiko Saulson 9781978281219 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Coloring book with images from the Mauskaveli comic books rendered as line art, ready for coloring wi...
4 Pages 16 Bars: Raise It Up!
4 Pages 16 Bars: Raise It Up! Jiba Molei Anderson 9781941958469 Fiction Cedar Grove Publishing Cedar Grove Publishing This sampler provides readers with a showcase for existing and upcoming talent as ...
Fearless: A Cartoonist’s Guide to Life
Fearless: A Cartoonist’s Guide to Life Robb Armstrong 9781621452874 Nonfiction Reader’s Digest Association Trusted Media Brands Robb Armstrong has been described by People Magazine as “one of the ho...
4 Pages 16 Bars: The Symphony (Volume 1)
4 Pages 16 Bars: The Symphony (Volume 1) Jiba Molei Anderson 9781941958186 Fiction Cedar Grove Publishing Cedar Grove Publishing This sampler provides readers with a showcase for existing and upcoming...
4 Pages 16 Bars: Sequential Graffiti
4 Pages 16 Bars: Sequential Graffiti Jiba Molei Anderson 9781941958179 Fiction Cedar Grove Publishing Cedar Grove Publishing This sampler provides readers with a showcase for existing and upcoming tal...
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 9781616200787 Nonfiction Algonquin Books Workman Publishing Co., Inc. “Addictively readable … Someday, when fewer peop...
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 9781481272049 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Pryor Lives! How Richard Pryor...
Akissi: Feline Invasion
Akissi: Feline Invasion Marguerite Abouet 9781909263017 Fiction Flying Eye Books Flying Eye Books Poor Akissi! The neighborhood cats are pursuing her to steal her fish, her little monkey Boubou almost...
Black Comics: Politics of Race and Representation
Black Comics: Politics of Race and Representation Sheena C. Howard and Ronald L. Jackson II 9781441172761 Nonfiction Bloomsbury Academic Bloomsbury Publishing Bringing together contributors from a wid...
God Carlos
God Carlos Anthony C. Winkler 9781617751394 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books A Finalist for the 2014 Townsend Prize for Fiction!God Carlos has been long-listed for the OMC Bocas Prize for Caribbean...
Clash of the New Kids
Clash of the New Kids Alex Simmons 9781936975099 Fiction Archie Comic Publications Archie Comic Publications Archie, Jughead, Betty and Veronica have a lot of new friends and rivals when Riverdale Hig...
Archie: Obama & Palin in Riverdale
Archie: Obama & Palin in Riverdale Alex Simmons 9781879794870 Fiction Archie Comic Publications Archie Comic Publications When Archie and Reggie’s duelling student government campaigns spin out of con...
Archie World Tour
Archie World Tour Alex Simmons 9781879794733 Fiction Archie Comic Publications Archie Comic Publications Join Archie, Betty, Veronica, Reggie, Jughead and the rest of the Riverdale High teens on a glo...
Big Machine: A Novel
Big Machine: A Novel Victor Lavalle 9780385527996 Fiction Spiegel & Grau Penguin Random House A fiendishly imaginative comic novel about doubt, faith, and the monsters we carry within us.Ricky Rice wa...
The Cartoon Life of Chuck Clayton
The Cartoon Life of Chuck Clayton Alex Simmons 9781879794481 Fiction Archie Comic Publications Archie Comic Publications Get drawn in to the world of teenage cartoonist Chuck Clayton! Watch Chuck colo...
Quantum Lyrics: Poems
Quantum Lyrics: Poems A. Van Jordan 9780393333121 Poetry W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. "Fearless hybridization…. Jordan creates spaces where physics and poetry, comic books and j...
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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 9780826218124 Nonfiction University of Missouri Press University of Missouri One of the premier wr...