Okay. So, Why Black Metropolis? What would compel me to put on a career retrospective?
This is a question I intend to answer in detail over the course of the festival. But as this is the first day I will simply say the following:
For all artists, audience members of any color, orientation, and gender; I’ve been working the margins of Black Speculative Art in comics and concept design since I was 12 years old. As of this writing I am 55 years old. I learned in only my middle age, that YOU ALONE are responsible for advocating for YOUR WORK. It’s not easy. in fact it’s downright exhausting. Plus I had plenty of help. However, it’s easily the most fulfilling, validating, and FUN activity of my life. Here’s the catch. You must:
Greetings Dieselfunkateers! #RoadtoINFINITUM PROUD to announce our first national review of ‘INFINITUM: An Afrofuturist Tale’ by PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A quick excerpt:
“Fielder (Matty’s Rocket) digs deep into his pulp toolbox to fuse genre influences in this daring epic, which bristles with action and verve.”
HarperCollins Amistad will be BRINGING THE FIRE January 19, 2021. Dang, I want to read this book to!
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