Podcasts about black comic book festival

The Schomburg Center's Black Comic Book Festival returns for its twelfth year! The event features networking opportunities for up-and-coming comic book creators, artist conversations, cosplay, and a Black comics trivia challenge. The festival's executive producer Kadiatou Tubman joins us alongside author and visual artist Roye Okupe to preview this year's programming. We also take your calls about your favorite Black comics and characters. *This segment is guest-hosted by Kousha Navidar. 

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Silver Surfer: Ghost Light writer John Jennings joins Angélique to talk about building an authentic backstory for Al Harper, directing a graphic novel imprint, and curating the Schaumburg Center's Black Comic Book Festival.

The Schomburg Center's Black Comic Book Festival returns in person for the first time since 2020! Each year, this event offers participants the opportunity to meet established and up-and-coming comic book creators, join conversations with artists in the field and show off their best cosplay. Kadiatou Tubman, manager of education programs and outreach for the center, previews this year's festival.

[REBROADCAST FROM February 21, 2023] A new graphic novel explores the life of Harlem's legendary mobster, Stephanie Saint-Clair, sometimes called "Queenie," with jazz and voodoo as the backdrop. Authors Elizabeth Colomba and Aurélie Levy join us to discuss their book, Queenie: Godmother of Harlem.  In an upcoming panel discussion, Colomba will speak about Black Women and marginalized voices in comics for the Schomburg Center's Black Comic Book Festival this Saturday, April 15.

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BC and Anton welcome Kristin Little and Alexia Brown from the Peachtree Minority Venture Fund, and discuss Elon Musk, the Black Comic Book Festival, and what to do with the soon-to-be melted Robert E. Lee monument.

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Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… Ivy Park and the business of exclusion, a Black hair journey to baldness, homelessness in a city full of empty homes (make that make sense), and bisexuality and why the straight monogs must be stopped. This week’s hotlist - Ivy Park & adidas, plus sizes, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley, Black Comic Book Festival, natural hair, alopecia and Black women, gentrification and Oakland’s “housing crisis”, homelessness, bisexuality, capitalism and the business of marginalization, Hurricane Maria, Loiza, Puerto Rico, polyamory, non-monogamy, the myth of ownership in relationships and more! Tweet us while you listen! #teawithqj @teawithqj and add #podin on twitter to help others discover Tea with Queen and J. podcast! WEBSITE www.TeaWithQueenAndJ.com SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: twitter.com/teawithqj Instagram: Instagram.com/teawithqj Facebook: www.facebook.com/TeawithQueenandJ Tumblr: teawithqueenandj.tumblr.com SPONSOR “Layla’s Happiness” children’s book Written by Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie, Illustrated by Ashleigh Corrin Learn more about the book: https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/11/20/laylas-happiness-mariahadessa-ekere-tallie/ Buy on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Laylas-Happiness-Mariahdessa-Ekere-Tallie/dp/1592702880 Buy at Barnes and Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/laylas-happiness-mariahdessa-ekere-tallie/1130419130#/ Buy at Target: https://www.target.com/p/layla-s-happiness-by-mariahadessa-ekere-tallie-hardcover/-/A-77038768 EMAIL & SPONSOR INQUIRIES teawithqueenandj@gmail.com DONATE www.paypal.me/teawithqj OR www.patreon.com/teawithqj Queen’s Amazon wishlist: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/CXV9ZDWZ3PP9?ref_=wl_share J.’s Amazon wishlist: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1NP09USMPJ0TB?ref=cm_sw_em_r_wl_ip_VEVWdvdDDemm0 PAY BLACK WOMEN Learn more about Taller Salud’s initiative to support women in Loiza & other areas of Puerto Rico Taller Salud en español: https://www.tallersalud.com Taller Salud in English: https://www.english.tallersalud.com Donate: https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/help-us-empower-women-to-make-loiza-thrive/ NOTES & EXTRA TEA Watch #StrongFemaleLeads panel from Black Comic Book Festival moderated by J. with special guests Dr. Eve L. Ewing, Dhonielle Clayton #WeNeedDiverseBooks, Shauna J. Grant, Vita Ayala and Greg Burnham: https://livestream.com/schomburgcenter/events/8963852/videos/200852115?fbclid=IwAR2zGBGWc56MLq0WePx8g8HBDmUyW65ouZGMZJGD_uyF_FYVcY2p4N--ZQI Learn more about Moms 4 Housing: https://moms4housing.org Learn more about the battle for Oakland and excessive police force against peaceful protest in the “housing crisis”: https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2020/01/moms-4-housing-oakland-housing-crisis-arrests-alameda-county-police-riot-gear/ Watch Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley discuss her experience with alopecia: https://theglowup.theroot.com/exclusive-rep-ayanna-pressley-reveals-beautiful-bald-1841039847 Ayanna Pressley: US congresswoman reveals alopecia diagnosis: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51148851 This week’s closing clip features Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez #MLKNow conversation with Ta’Nehisi Coates: https://twitter.com/pairolleth/status/1219413110852743168 This episode was created, hosted and produced by Naima & Janicia with engineering & editorial support from Sam Riddell Libations to our friend’s Domingo, Tokunbo, and D. Sindayiganza who help keep this show running by paying and supporting Black women. Libations to Ohene Cornelius for our show intro, keep up with him at https://ohenecornelius.com Libations to T.Flint for our News That's Not News intro! Find him at www.tflintvoiceovers.com/

Soooooo... same time next week? J. will be moderating the #StrongFemaleLeads panel at Black Comic Book Festival on Friday, January 17th at 11:30 at The Schomburg Center in Harlem! Full schedule & FREE registration here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-schomburg-centers-8th-annual-black-comic-book-festival-tickets-86017439477 WEBSITE www.TeaWithQueenAndJ.com SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: twitter.com/teawithqj Instagram: Instagram.com/teawithqj Facebook: www.facebook.com/TeawithQueenandJ Tumblr: teawithqueenandj.tumblr.com EMAIL & SPONSOR INQUIRIES teawithqueenandj@gmail.com DONATE www.paypal.me/teawithqj OR www.patreon.com/teawithqj Queen’s Amazon wishlist: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/CXV9ZDWZ3PP9?ref_=wl_share J.’s Amazon wishlist: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1NP09USMPJ0TB?ref=cm_sw_em_r_wl_ip_VEVWdvdDDemm0

This week’s episode 39 of Real Black News features Brooklyn Community Advocate Anthony Beckford who lead the Brooklyn nail salon protests. He discusses his campaign to become Councilman for the 45th City Council District in Brooklyn, NY, the seat vacated by Public Advocate Jumaane Williams. Entertainment Journalist Ronda Racha Penrice joins “The Screen Grab” to discuss DJ Quik, Donald Glover, Star Wars, and Issa Rae. Cartoonist and co-founder of the Schomburg’s Black Comic Book Festival, Jerry Craft, discusses his graphic novel “New Kid.” Other topics include reparations, Black maternal mortality rates, and Color of Change’s latest campaign against hate groups.

*Apologies for the preempted shows, folks!  We're b(L)ack, live and direct and let's just get to the information.  It's another action packed Afronerd Radio/Grindhouse podcast airing this Sunday at 6pm eastern.  The topics are: our impressions of last weekend's 7th annual Black Comic Book Festival held at the world renowned Schomburg Center in Harlem, NYC;  Afronerd's "sanctum sanctorum" checked out M Night Shyamalan's Glass at Dburt's favorite spot, Brooklyn's Alamo Drafthouse; Punisher S2 premiered last week courtesy of Netflix (for the moment..shhh); comedian, Bill Maher doubles down on comic book culture during his Real Time show;  DC Universe's Young Justice: Outsiders "first half" of the third season concludes scheduled to return in June;  more on Black Panther's Oscar nomination and what are it's chances?; Umbrella Academy trailer and Deadly Class on SYFY; Star Trek: Discovery and The Orville second seasons are in full swing (at the same time?) and lastly, our thoughts about Sen. Kamala Harris announcing that she is formally running for president in '20.  Call LIVE at 646-915-9620.  

7th Annual Black Comic Book Festival in Harlem. Live on scene coverage with Newk Juice and Q. Vessel.

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… One of our favorite shows does an episode on colorism but did they really even wanna talk about it? The politics of what’s “fair”, People who can’t read arguing over books, And will the next generation suck less than we do? This week’s hot list: Black Comic Book Festival & Black Villains Matter, that Twerk video is Black joy, Fyre fest scam, that Black-ish episode and light skinned privilege (again), stop saying fair - words still mean things, redbone vs. brownin', you mad at Marie Kondo or you racist/xenophobic? More partners, better sex, how racist is Gen Z, and mad other ish. Tweet us while you listen! #teawithqj @teawithqj and add #podin on twitter to help others discover Tea with Queen and J. podcast! Black-ish colorist episode recap starts at 21:09 WEBSITE www.TeaWithQueenAndJ.com SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: twitter.com/teawithqj Instagram: Instagram.com/teawithqj Facebook: www.facebook.com/TeawithQueenandJ Tumblr: teawithqueenandj.tumblr.com EMAIL teawithqueenandj@gmail.com DONATE www.paypal.me/teawithqj OR www.patreon.com/teawithqj EVENTS BROOKLYN, NYC Sunday, January 27th 5-8pm Join Queen for Ms. Vixen + CareFreeBlackGirl Vision board and Intention Setting Workshop at Cafe Con Libros Cafe & Bookstore in Brooklyn! Tickets & info here: msvixenirl.eventbrite.com BROOKLYN Saturday, January 26th Join Inner Hoe Uprising for a sex positive dance party as they welcome coe-hoe Rob home from active duty! Ihuwinteriscumming.eventbrite.com NYC Join Bag Ladiez podcast live at The Greene Space on January 28, 2019! Tix & info: http://www.thegreenespace.org/events/thegreenespace/2019/jan/28/bag-ladiez-live/ Visit Bag Ladiez website: https://www.bgladiez.com PAY BLACK WOMEN Maryann Rolle gofund me: https://www.gofundme.com/exuma-point-fyre-fest-debt?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=exuma-point-fyre-fest-debt NOTES & EXTRA TEA Watch J. on the “Black Villains Matter” panel at Black Comic Book Festival 2019: https://livestream.com/schomburgcenter/events/8529979/videos/186033547?fbclid=IwAR3TC3Dx4sC5EzKD6GVMzFwMIMnvwtreEVuOQ90Zah9pZkWqgbGHB1Afxrk Watch Queen on the “Who Tells The Story of Our Future” panel at Werk It Festival 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibN5i-1DKeo OR Listen to the audio here: https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/who-tells-story-our-future-werk-it-2018 Gen Z might be more chill: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/01/17/next-generation-voters-are-more-liberal-more-inclusive-believe-government/?fbclid=IwAR2JF7L1g69VR8wBkQWK7jY9QjWJrinW5gfNZJqTSL9v8DqM8zOHHEwQ49g&utm_term=.c37eb12a6dde This week’s closing clip features TMZ’s clip of Erykah Badu wilding: https://www.tmz.com/videos/1_jbi1xmvu/ This episode was created, hosted & produced by Janicia & Naima with editorial support by Sam Riddell Libations to our friend Domingo who help’s keep this show running by giving their money to Black women. Libations to Ohene Cornelius for our show intro, keep up with him at https://ohenecornelius.com Libations to T.Flint for our News That's Not News intro! Find him at www.tflintvoiceovers.com/

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this spot of tea episode… how to avoid becoming a human sacrifice in the name of Blackness, what the fvck is womanism, and how to get your Black joy on in the face of white consumption This week’s hot list: Go see Big Freedia, Jason Mamoa is a complete sentence, brown babies for every body! Protect your neck, womanism vs feminism vs Black feminism vs does it matter, what do academics really do, and mad other ish! Tweet us while you listen! #teawithqj @teawithqj and add #podin on twitter to help others discover Tea with Queen and J. podcast! WEBSITE www.TeaWithQueenAndJ.com SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: twitter.com/teawithqj Instagram: Instagram.com/teawithqj Facebook: www.facebook.com/TeawithQueenandJ Tumblr: teawithqueenandj.tumblr.com EMAIL teawithqueenandj@gmail.com DONATE www.paypal.me/teawithqj OR www.patreon.com/teawithqj EVENTS HARLEM, NYC Saturday, January 19th J. will be on a panel at the Black Comic Book Festival at The Schomburg museum! Supervillains: A Reflection of Us panel begins at 10:00am. Free RSVP & full schedule: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-schomburg-centers-7th-annual-black-comic-book-festival-tickets-53316870194 BROOKLYN, NYC Sunday, January 27th 5-8pm Join Queen for Ms. Vixen + CareFreeBlackGirl Vision board and Intention Setting Workshop at Cafe Con Libros Cafe & Bookstore in Brooklyn! Tickets & info here: msvixenirl.eventbrite.com BROOKLYN Saturday, January 26th Join Inner Hoe Uprising for a sex positive dance party as they welcome coe-hoe Rob home from active duty! Tix & info: Ihuwinteriscumming.eventbrite.com NYC Join Bag Ladiez podcast live at The Greene Space on Monday, January 28, 2019! Tix & info: http://www.thegreenespace.org/events/thegreenespace/2019/jan/28/bag-ladiez-live/ Visit Bag Ladiez website: https://www.bgladiez.com NOTES & EXTRA TEA Referenced article re womanism: https://www.thoughtco.com/womanist-feminism-definition-3528993 Referenced article re Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/3/15/14910900/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-transgender-women-comments-apology This week’s closing clip is by @tpmiller305 on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tpmiller305/ Libations to our friends Casey & Domingo who help keep this show running by giving their money to Black women. Libations to Ohene Cornelius for our show intro, learn more about Ohene: https://ohenecornelius.com Libations to T.Flint for our News That's Not News intro! Find him at www.tflintvoiceovers.com/

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… We’re shedding old friendships, setting new affirmations and all kinds of fun shit before an in depth convo about #SurvivingRKelly in real life, the docuseries, why it might not go far enough, and who shouldn’t have been included. Trigger Warning: #SurvivingRKelly conversation including discussions of rape, grooming, assault & other abuses starts at moment 48:36 and ends at 2:02:10 This week’s hot list: Witches & sorcery & Black girl magic, ending patriarchal friendships with pizazz, processing #SurvivingRKelly and reliving old sh!t, being respectable won’t save you, the fast girl myth, complicit adults, communal accountability, sex tape vs. rape tape (words mean things), celebrity victim blamers (why was Charlechew even in that doc?), and then light and fun sh!t, we promise! Tweet us while you listen! #teawithqj @teawithqj and add #podin on twitter to help others discover Tea with Queen and J. podcast! WEBSITE www.TeaWithQueenAndJ.com SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: twitter.com/teawithqj Instagram: Instagram.com/teawithqj Facebook: www.facebook.com/TeawithQueenandJ Tumblr: teawithqueenandj.tumblr.com EMAIL teawithqueenandj@gmail.com DONATE www.paypal.me/teawithqj OR www.patreon.com/teawithqj EVENTS HARLEM, NYC Saturday, January 19th J. will be on a panel at the Black Comic Book Festival at The Schomburg museum! Supervillains: A Reflection of Us panel begins at 10:00am. Free RSVP & full schedule: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-schomburg-centers-7th-annual-black-comic-book-festival-tickets-53316870194 BROOKLYN, NYC Sunday, January 27th 5-8pm Join Queen for Ms. Vixen + CareFreeBlackGirl Vision board and Intention Setting Workshop at Cafe Con Libros Cafe & Bookstore in Brooklyn! Tickets & info here: msvixenirl.eventbrite.com PAY BLACK WOMEN Check out Adorned By Chi, a lifestyle brand for misfits & magical girls: https://adornedbychi.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adornedbychi/ NOTES & EXTRA TEA Listen to the latest episode of “A Little Juju Podcast”: https://soundcloud.com/user-991694293/new-years-reading Join Bag Ladiez podcast live at The Greene Space on January 28, 2019! Tix & info: http://www.thegreenespace.org/events/thegreenespace/2019/jan/28/bag-ladiez-live/ Visit Bag Ladiez website: https://www.bgladiez.com Listen to our interview with #MuteRKelly co-founder Kenyette Barnes in episode #153: https://soundcloud.com/tea-with-queen-and-j/153-muterkelly Scholly & growninsh are partnering to help pay off your student loan debt. You could have up to 125,000 in debt paid off. Learn more here: https://myscholly.com/grownish And here: https://verysmartbrothas.theroot.com/if-you-have-student-loans-grown-ish-and-scholly-are-tr-1831488830 This week’s closing clip features Kelechi Okafor (twitter @kelechnekoff): https://twitter.com/kelechnekoff/status/1079780148872953861/video/1 This episode was created, hosted & produced by Janicia & Naima with editorial support by Sam Riddell Libations to our friends Casey & Domingo who help keep this show running by giving their money to Black women. Libations to Ohene Cornelius for our show intro, check out his latest album Flight Risk available everywhere online now. You can find Ohene on instagram and twitter @ohenecornelius and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ohenecornelius/ Libations to T.Flint for our News That's Not News intro! Find him at www.tflintvoiceovers.com/

In our eighth episode, Executive Producer Nailah Andre visits the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture for the 6th annual Black Comic Book Festival. Then, contributor Maria Zaldivar explores the world of metaphysics in her own "Lights & Quarts" special. Originally aired on WRHU-FM on 02/27/18. Musicians featured in this episode: Ryan Little: "West Coast"Broke For Free: "As Colorful As Ever"

In this episode we talk about the first action film of 2018. Also The Black Comicbook Festival in Harlem. Enjoy

Jerry Craft returns to BlackComicsChat to discuss the Black Comic Book Festival which is going down this Friday and Saturday at the Schomburg Center in NYC. It's the place to be! More info here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/schomburgs-6th-annual-black-comic-book-festival-jan-12-13-2018-tickets-38400619286 Please rate and review the show on iTunes/Apple Podcasts BlackComicsChat intro/outro beatbox theme by Afua Richardson

Episode #123: John Jennings, illustrator and co-adaptor of Octavia Butler's KINDRED John Jennings is Professor, Media and Cultural Studies, University of California, Riverside. His work centers around intersectional narratives regarding identity politics and popular media. Jennings is co-editor of the Eisner Award-winning essay collection The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art and co-founder/organizer of The Schomburg Center's Black Comic Book Festival in Harlem. He is co-founder and organizer of the MLK NorCal's Black Comix Arts Festival in San Francisco and also SOL-CON: The Brown and Black Comix Expo at the Ohio State University. Jennings sits on the editorial advisory boards for The Black Scholar and the new Ohio State Press imprint New Suns: Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Speculative.

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! Queen is creating space for Black joy and J. is crying during her cosplay wrap up of Black Comic Book Festival. Are white folks whiting at you? We discuss Leah McSweeney and the modern day delusions of whiteness that used to get innocent Black folks killed. Also, Bishop Eddie Long is a dead rapist. Drink up! TRIGGER WARNING* We discuss child rape during the “Pit” segment of this episode. This week’s hot list: Black joy, ordering groceries in the hood, cosplay, Black Comic Book Festival, #FreeBresha, vision board parties, the pathology of whiteness/white fragility/white delusion/white-splaining all up and through Hollywood and our everyday lives, how we talk to children about sexual abuse, micro-aggressions, Queen matches with Michael Che on tinder, Steve Harvey gets racist, and all kids of cool shit in between. Tweet us while you listen! #teawithqj @teawithqj EVENTS On Thursday, January 19th, 2017 we’ll be at The Free Black Woman’s Library/January #FreeBresha day of action at the Brooklyn Movement Center 5pm-9pm. Please check here for event info: https://www.facebook.com/events/242505522856201/249048138868606/?notif_t=admin_plan_mall_activity¬if_id=1484747387520881 or follow The Free Black Woman’s Library on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FreeBlackWomansLibrary/?fref=nf WEBSITE www.TeaWithQueenAndJ.com SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter & Instagram: @TeawithQJ Facebook: www.facebook.com/TeawithQueenandJ Tumblr: teawithqueenandj.tumblr.com EMAIL teawithqueenandj@gmail.com DONATE www.paypal.me/teawithqj NOTES & EXTRA TEA For more on white delusion and Michael Che’s text exchange with an angry white woman check out Damon Young’s piece here: http://verysmartbrothas.com/why-white-women-like-leah-mcsweeney-are-a-menace-to-society-explained/ Read Angry Asian Man’s article on Steve Harvey’s racist jokes: http://blog.angryasianman.com/2017/01/steve-harvey-cannot-believe-anyone.html We reference Son of Baldwin’s article “Bishop Eddie Long Is Not The Only One Who’s Dead”. Read it *TW child rape, graphic language*: https://medium.com/@SonofBaldwin/bishop-eddie-long-is-dead-c6021e55ac9b#.yg4sjrj3l Do you identify as LGBTQ, love scifi, and wanna learn more about our friend Casey’s Gay Scifi Book Crew in NYC? Link here! https://www.meetup.com/Gay-Sci-Fi-Book-Crew/member/210610466/ This week’s closing clip in all of it’s youtube glory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCMKayaqMGY Libations to Ohene Cornelius for our show intro, check out his latest album Flight Risk available everywhere online now. You can find Ohene on instagram and twitter @ohenecornelius and online at www.ohenecornelius.com Libations to T.Flint for our News That's Not News intro! Find him

In this episode we have Jaz Wonder from the Rhythm and Rebel show on the show today. Mykey and Jaz just came back from the event in Harlem called Black Comic Book Festival in NYC. Besides a recap of those events we also talk about GTA online being better than offline, why do ppl play 7 days to die, and upcoming games on PS4. The opening song is Syd - All about Me and the closing song is Alison Wonderland - I want U. Thanks for listening

Jerry Craft is in the house to discuss the 5th Annual Black Comic Book Festival! The festival is taking place this weekend at the Schomburg Center in NYC. You can find information here: https://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2017/01/13/schomburgs-5th-annual-black-comic-book-festival-january-13-14-2017 If you enjoy our podcast please give us a 5 Star rating on iTunes. It helps to expand our reach. BlackComicsChat Beatbox Intro/Outro by Afua Richardson.

John Jennings is an Associate Professor of Art and Visual Studies at the University at Buffalo-State University of New York. He is the co-author of the graphic novel The Hole: Consumer Culture, Vol. 1 and the art collection Black Comix: African American Independent Comics Art and Culture (both with Damian Duffy). Jennings is also the co-editor of The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art and co-founder/organizer of The Schomburg Center’s Black Comic Book Festival in Harlem, MLK NorCal’s Black Comix Arts Festival in San Francisco, and the AstroBlackness colloquium in Los Angeles at Loyola Marymount University. Jennings’ current comics projects include the Hiphop adventure comic Kid Code: Channel Zero, the supernatural crime noir story Blue Hand Mojo, and the upcoming graphic novel adaptation of Octavia Butler’s classic dark fantasy novel Kindred.