Month: August 2016

Articles

New PaRappa the Rapper Anime Debuts in Japan This Month

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Polygon.com has the story.

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Articles

Antonio Prohías: How Cuba’s Greatest Cartoonist Fled Castro & Created ‘Spy vs. Spy’

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The story behind Mad Magazine’s iconic political strip

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Articles

NY Times Book Review: NK Jemisin’s Latest SFF Recs

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LINK: Checking out work from Yoon Ha Lee, Kameron Hurley and Indra Das

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(“The Strangling Fig” by Chris Panatier)

Articles

Read This: In 2002, Black People Love Us Website Artfully Spoofed Racial Cluelessness

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Click here to read at The AV Club. And, here’s “Black People Love Us.”

The wash cloth comment. My favorite.
-Erica

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Articles

Is Respectability Politics Killing Black Horror?

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Ooooooooo… This is a great topic. Go to Graveyard Shift Sisters to read.

William Marshall in Blacula

William Marshall in Blacula

Articles

Kripa Joshi’s Miss Moti Busts Body Image Issues One Comic At A Time

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LINK: From Feminism In India’s “Women In Power” series

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Articles

Snapchat Creates “Yellowface” Selfie Lens, Backlash Ensues

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LINK: What is going ON with these dopes???

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News

Robert Kirkman’s ‘Outcast’ Adds M.C. Gainey, Madelyn Deutch & Hoon Lee

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Read about it at Deadline.com.

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Articles

Black School Supplies Company Aims to Give Back to Community, Sells Out in First 24 Hours

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Read about this awesome business at Atlantablackstar.com.

We want all the things from Innovative Supplies!

Notebook art by @ZolaArtsFactory

Notebook art by @ZolaArtsFactory

Articles, News

Nnedi Okorafor: ‘What the market wants’ is code for ‘white stories’ in science-fiction

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Black writers face universal racism

oh hell no