richardmurray

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Cento poetry series 17th entry
Ma'am the reply to Girl from Jamaica Kincaid , thank you to Bettsfic
First Mass of the Perihelion story
I made Bayonetta in a Super Smash Bros Collaboration, thank you Ry-spirit

Dates- astrology and other sweet things

If You Made It This Far : Mark Dawson in KWL for indie writers, introducing an important speech at Teldar paper, Princess Bombshell from Seanime, listen to Aliens in the Mind staring Peter Cushing side Vincent Price, Madebirdscom bird boxes automata

https://rmnewsletter.over-blog.com/2023/06/09/17/2023-rmnewsletter.html

photo still of the couple

For works I am writing, i need to read or reread to research. So I will not place them but reading outside said work... I haven't finished the Wishing Pool from Tananarive Due

thank you for your reply @ProfD

based on Girl from Jamaica Kincaid
https://richardmurrayhumblr.tumblr.com/post/728165222399000576/narrative-writing-workshop-with-betts-week4

for more work consider the following

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2447&type=status

#Africa, a continent of 54 countries and a population of about one billion people,  accounts for just 3% of global GDP and global trade. How important is #Africa in the #global scheme of things? Discuss…
https://twitter.com/osasuo/status/1700500796813529458

Your Thoughts, please place in comments

my answer
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topics

Cento poetry series , round 16
Bayonetta - super smash bros. collage
Lifewriting podcast with Tananarive Due side Steven Barnes, how to write horror
Left handed tutorials
Sudowoodo in the rainforest for a positive cause

If You Made It This Far: Lego salmon, Making the engine to traverse the planets, Haitian fables from Chevelin Pierre, Headscents to provide aroma with artistic flair, Calling all Black Female Photographers to apply for an opportunity
https://rmnewsletter.over-blog.com/2023/06/09/10/2023-rmnewsletter.html

September 1, 2023

We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Jason Reeves a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Jason, we’re thrilled to have you sharing your thoughts and lessons with our community. So, for folks who are at a stage in their life or career where they are trying to be more resilient, can you share where you get your resilience from?
When you grow up using the change from food stamp purchases as your weekly comic shop money, you learn to make do with a little. You can become very calculating. You learn to save up money, time, and even energy to overcome obstacles. Quiet as its kept, coming up poor builds a kind of conservativeness and a savvy that can navigate you around any ‘No’ response.

Let’s take a small detour – maybe you can share a bit about yourself before we dive back into some of the other questions we had for you?
It’s crazy looking back on it. For real, I just wanted to draw superheroes. I just wanted to draw fight scenes and folks that launched themselves into the air and jumped off roofs. I wanted to draw people that saved people…and strangely enough, they saved me. I’m Jason Reeves and 133art is my publishing company. It started out as a freelance illustration business and I’m proud to say we’ve had some distinguished clientele over the years: HASBRO | Esquire Magazine | USA Today | Upper Deck | Wizards of the Coast | Heavy Metal Magazine | Frontline Detroit Coalition | MV Media | Scholastic (…just some friendly flexin’). But I’m most proud of what it is now: 133art Publishing is A Black owned imprint enlisting and co-creating with comic folks who have a passion for storytelling and are dedicated to showcasing the depth and complexity of the Black comics experience. Fresh and unique storytelling, that’s the real flex.

Myself and a growing community of Black creators have grown our own corner of the comics industry affectionately thought of as Black Comix. I get to watch as it becomes fruitful and see my peers come into their own as their own work blows up. We’re having fun and I still feel like the grind has just started.

There is so much advice out there about all the different skills and qualities folks need to develop in order to succeed in today’s highly competitive environment and often it can feel overwhelming. So, if we had to break it down to just the three that matter most, which three skills or qualities would you focus on?
Building a business from scratch is no easy feat. As a self-taught artist, I’ve had to navigate the worlds of sales, marketing, and printing to establish my comic book brand, 133art.

Collecting clients for freelance or printing jobs doesn’t happen overnight. It takes a continuous effort to put yourself and your work out there, network, and pivot when things aren’t working in your favor. One of the biggest struggles in the indie comics industry, and for 133art specifically, is finding your audience. When I started out, I knew I wanted to create content with Black leads and heroes, but I had to figure out who would be interested in buying that content and where to find them.

Social media has been a key marketing tool for me, with Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Peep Game Comics, and my website 133art.com being my go-to places. But in-person events like Black Indie Comic Conventions have been even more effective at drawing in potential customers. MECCA Con in Detroit, Black Comix Day in San Diego, Black Comics Arts Festival in San Francisco, Sol-Con in Ohio, the Black Comics Fest and the Black Comics Collective in New York are just a few of the events where I’ve been able to showcase my work and connect with fans.

But there’s still more work to be done. Wider distribution into bookstores and comic shops is the next step, and it will take time and effort to crack that nut. Building something up from scratch takes perseverance, patience, and a willingness to take things one step at a time. And as I continue to learn and grow, I’m excited to see where the next steps will take me and my brand.

Awesome, really appreciate you opening up with us today and before we close maybe you can share a book recommendation with us. Has there been a book that’s been impactful in your growth and development?
Black Comix: African American Independent Comics, Art and Culture.

By John Jennings and Damian Duffy. It was my introduction to the wider Black Comix community when I was starting out. If the amazing art inside doesn’t hook you the bios of some of the best comic creators and artists on the planet will stoke the fires of your creativity.

Many of the luminaries within its pages, who still inspire me today have become cherished friends and peers. Its one of those books that I can crack open to reinvigorate me and remind myself why I’ve taken this journey.

Contact Info:

Website: https://133art.com/

Link Tree: https://linktr.ee/133artpublishing

Image Credits
Photo 7 Credit: Michael Young II/NerdSoul Photo 8 Credit: HRDWRKER/ CAAMcon

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https://boldjourney.com/news/meet-jason-reeves/

so don't give up on tiktok:) 

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Filled With MAgic posts

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I finished my bayonetta

From Tananarive Due
Our new #Lifewriting Podcast is up and it's about my favorite topic -- WRITING HORROR!!! (Episode 85) 
What do I mean when I tell writing students to find what scares you and "turn it up to 11"? Watch this video for a great example from GET OUT. Steven Barnes and I chop it up! 
Check out the full podcast wherever you get your podcasts - if it's not up yet where you listen, here's the direct link: 
https://dcs.megaphone.fm/SBP9688647486.mp3?key=1b1857581b05fea2550a1b6f91f45526&request_event_id=f8345c7d-d1e9-4dc2-bb29-819ba1155484

Lifewriting Site

https://www.realm.fm/shows/lifewriting-write-for-your-life

If you can not hear I wrote notes. Sorry no transcript

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Well,  

I define Black Greatness, absent any desire to influence another's definition, as contentment. 

I think when Black folk are happy, nothing like it exists anywhere else in humanity. 

@Troy yeah, i know too well, but if we all in aalbc can make this corner of the internet a place of some uplifting online, that is worth something

@Troy I did answer. You suggest I did not. ok. 

I have never considered myself wiley. 

@Pioneer1  

Fair enough, I think you are foolish wasting your energies drilling it into others, as you say. I oppose that way of supporting your views. 

I am 100% certain the christian wars against muslims , commonly called the crusades, were in the past largely and are in modernity partially based on religious race.  Moreover, the history of religious conversions throughout all humanity but especially in the time period in europe before what i call the european global imperial age, is a clear sign of extreme negative bias used through racial , religious race, standings. In the merchant of venice, the play from shakespeare, Shiloh is barred from his community for that conversion. If anything ,clarence thomas's treatment by the black community in the usa in modernity  shows a much more lenient racial environment to one deemed a traitor than in the past.

But the point is, it doesn't matter if another thinks race had nothing to do with the crusades at all. 

You are willing to drill but I don't need everyone to stand with my positions or views. 

Well, you call the modern catholic approach, the catholic church used to be a very strong proselytizer, ineffective, but I counter that correct label with another, while positive, honest. Let people come to you on their own. Even though I preached in this very post I will try my best to stop preaching/prosyletizin/selling  I don't want or need to preach/prosyletize/sell anymore. and though not easy in the usa, a country of preaching, i will try

And to my multitribal approach to the tribes in our village, since you love it, have fun preaching pioneer:) 

@Troy I didn't miss your question and I thought I answered it. I prefer neither. I have my own path/position/views. I am glad you both have yours. You use the word plausible, many able to be praised or applauded. I applaud or praise neither, but I don't like prosyletizing nor do I try to aid prosyletizing. you and pioneer can have all that. And yes, I will in the future fall into prosyletizing, but I try to exit out as fast as possible. 

good idea positivity helps

@Troy 

yeah, fair enough. Only one element of your reply lead to my confusion, not the whole thing. But I comprehend your position more completely now. 

Same thing, pioneer's position I comprehend like your's. Neither of you are the same frequency or wave structure as mine, but that is fine. I comprehend you both, that is more important than agreement or similar thinking.

@Pioneer1 focus your energies on building side those who share your position on race. The question I have to you is  what do you want? do you want to preach to black people who do not or may not share the position that you side many other black people have concerning race? Or,  do you want to build upon that view? If nothing can be built then people will come upon the position or they will not, but no need to proselytize

cool @Greg Thomas  will you keep us updated on your creative journey to that contest in this forum?

@ProfD fair enough, I comprehend your position. Many black people in the usa want a certain respect for the black journey in the usa.

@Troy and in each time i used the word white it was signifying a phenotypical group in humanity. 

To be fair none. I wasn't knocking your source. It came to the conclusions you have said or alluded to before in this community. 

I jump to conclusions based on the consistency of your own replies from what I have read in this forum in topics concerning race.  It has nothing to do with chatgpt. All I can say to chatgpt is the machine's answer sounds similar to your own, which is fine, no problem. as least I have no problem with it. 

@ProfD

The black community in the usa will be better when all in it comprehend, that black people have the right to desire away from the usa. Your words remind me of WEB Dubois who spoke ill against Marcus Garvey in court. PRofD, I know black people , Black ados, who left the usa and are happy. You may not realize it, but your words are very limiting, but in a key way. What you have to comprehend is that history doesn't have to have one interpretation. We all know events in history but assessing those events, that doesn't have to be uniform and even though the usa populace is the king of training mass opinion, you have to realize , the history of black people in the usa allows for both a pro + anti usa position. Not one but both. Remember, when the usa was founded black people fought for and against it, simultaneously. So... do what you want of course, but keep trying to push the usa as a homeland to all black DOSers will always fail. Anyone can search history and find evidence that many, sometimes most,  black dos forebears never wanted that. 

@Troy In my comment to you I said 

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If anyone ask me about racism

But by your own words you asked a computer program built by humans full of biases, which demand imbalance 

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When did white racism begin?

You didn't even ask the same question I did. I didn't speak on white racism. I spoke on racism. 

But your correct. I comprehend your opinion on race.  I am no longer confused to your view on race. I am opposed to it of course. 

But I do realize going forward in this community, whenever you comment on race , where your arguments come from. 

@Pioneer1

barbados christ church st ann's. you have to buy tickets 

@Pioneer1

That is a hard egg to crack in the usa. 

Comprehend, outside the nearly terminated native american, the indigenous people, all the other communities in the usa are for the most part, full of liars, who raised their children on lies who raised their children on the lies they were fed by their parents.

White europeans killed most of the  native american  peoples , took their land,but they talk like they did the native american a favor for killing them. Their forebears entire wealth comes from abusing others under the law they constructed but they tell it like the usa made humanity free.Thsi comes from white homes.

Black DOSers enslavement to whites predates the usa and has never completely ended by even whte accounts, yet black people talk like we came on the nina and pinta and santamaria and merely was so stupid our modern condition comes from a simple ignorance like we weren't enslaved or abused by whites.  Black people act like centuries of enslavement should be reversed in less than a hundred years. That is from our homes. 

The non white european immigrant community, asians or latin americans or africans or caribbeans of all phenotypes left countries the usa mangled or abuse nad is usually still abusing, but talk about being a citizen of the usa while having pride for the country they left, that most never go back to. These people don't even tell their children the circumstances to why they are leaving, whether they committed crimes or backstabbed or cheated or made enemies. But present themselves as simple good workers looking to join a rainbow country not telling their children the rainbow is founded on blood.

So, the majority of homes in the usa are full of liars. Who want to pass negatively.  It links all the peoples in the usa, barring the native american. 

Whites didn't want their children to admit their wealth came from others suffering and embrace the usa as a racial country.

Blacks DOSers didn't want their children to assault their enslavers and not allow a connection to the usa to be made.

Immigrants didn't want their children to fight against the country that they sacrificed to bring them to and fight against the usa for the country their forebears fled.

misinformation is a pillar of most usa homes or discourse or positions or views. 

The USA will never have a majority of honest people, that requires most people in the usa to end many of their positions.

@Troy

You have me confused. I admit it. If anyone ask me about racism, in my opinion, through my own definitions, racism is as old as humanity. But, your saying it is only a few hundred years old. Instead of opposing your position. The question is, in your opinion, not mine, when did racism begin? In your opinion, not mine or anything to do with me,  what started racism a few hundred years ago? You can't give a blank answer to either of those questions and remain functional to your position. 

@Troy no particular or specific accessibility concern.