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The Black Comic Book Festival, Jan. 12th 10AM - 4PM @ The Schomburg

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THE BLACK COMIC BOOK FESTIVAL

Free and Open to the Public

All Ages Welcome

TOMORROW

Saturday, January 12

10AM ● 4PM

THE BLACK COMIC BOOK FESTIVAL

FULL DAY SCHEDULE

Pop-Up Exhibition | Main Lobby

Black Kirby by John Jennings, SUNY Buffalo and Stacey Robinson

All Day

Black Comic Book Exhibitors | Main Lobby & Mezzanine

10AM

Film Screening and Q&A | Langston Hughes Auditorium

White Scripts and Black Supermen: Black Masculinities in Comic Books

Dr. Jonathan Gayles, Georgia State University

10:30AM

Workshop | American Negro Theater

The Art of Making Comics

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12PM

Film Screening and Q&A | Langston Hughes Auditorium

White Scripts and Black Supermen: Black Masculinities in Comic Books

Dr. Jonathan Gayles, Georgia State University

12:30PM

Workshop | American Negro Theater

Family Cartooning Workshop

Jerry Craft, Syndicated Cartoonist of Mama’s Boyz

2PM

Panel Discussion | Langston Hughes Auditorium

Moderator:

Dr. Jonathan Gayles, Georgia State University

Panelists:

Comics Come to Harlem:

Race and the Lafargue Clinics Case Against Comics

Qiana Joelle Whitted, University of South Carolina

Secret Identities and Mutant Minorities

Marcus W. Singer, Howard University

Representing Black Citizenship, or Why Understanding the History of Black Comics Helps Us Understand “Django Unchained”

Rebecca Ann Wanzo, Washington University St. Louis

Pride, Power, and Protest? Marvel Comic and the Black Superhero after 1970

Julian C. Chambliss, Rollins College

2PM

Youth Film Screening | American Negro Theater

Our Friend Martin: An Adventure Inspired by Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

The New York Public Library

515 Malcolm X Blvd

at 135th Street

New York, NY 10037

Directions:

Train: 2train.gifor 3train.gifTrain to 135th Street

Bus: M7 Bus to 135th Street

WALK-IN REGISTRATION

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