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In Neeeewwwww Yooorrrrrkkkk! BLACK COMIX Weekend Recap in NYC

July 20, 2010

Where Brooklyn At? House of Art Meet & Greet Recap!

Many thanks to Richard Beavers at the House of Art in Bed-Stuy for hosting the Black Comix Meet & Greet on July 14!

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Black Comix @ Madame X

Shout out to everyone that joined us on July 15 at Madame X!! Special thanks to Amy, Emmett, Karen and Erica Watson for hipping Black Comix to one of the coolest spots in NYC.

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C-SPAN BookTv “Reading in a Digital Age” Panel at the Harlem Book Fair

A panel discussion was held on July 17 on the changes made to access to information by a market-driven digital technology. They discussed the thesis that wider visual representation would lead younger readers into literacy.

The authors were: John Jennings (moderator), Black Comix: African American Independent Comics, Art and Culture (Mark Batty Publisher/Random); Damian Duffy, Black Comix: African American Independent Comics, Art and Culture (Mark Batty Publisher/Random); Dawud Anyabwile, Brotherman; Alex Simmons, Blackjack; Gregory Walker, ZM1; and L.A. Banks, Vampire Huntress. “From Digital Divide to Digital Inequality: Bridging the Market-Driven Literacy Gap” was a panel of the 12th annual Harlem Book Fair from the Langston Hughes Auditorium in the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.