Black Metropolis DAY 1!  FINISH, DELIVER & SHOW

Black Metropolis DAY 1! FINISH, DELIVER & SHOW

Greetings Dieselfunkateers!  BLACK METROPOLIS: 30 Years of Afrofuturism, Comics, Music, Animation, Decapitated Chickens, Heroes, Villains, and Negroes. As part of The Carnegie Hall Afrofuturism Festival Opened TODAY.  Feb 1st – Mar 31st at the Children’s Art Carnival 62 Hamilton Terrace, New York, NY 10031 Tuesdays- Sundays 12pm-7pm Closed Monday (Gotta Rest sometime right?)

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:
 
FINISH, DELIVER & SHOW
 
See you at the Show!!!!
FIRST REVIEW INFINITUM in PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

FIRST REVIEW INFINITUM in PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

FIRST REVIEW INFINITUM in PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

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!

The AFROFUTURIST PODCAST does BLACK METROPOLIS

The AFROFUTURIST PODCAST does BLACK METROPOLIS

The AFROFUTURIST PODCAST does BLACK METROPOLIS

Greetings Dieselfunkateers!

THE AFROFUTURIST PODCAST COMETH!  Tim Fielder here.  Black Metropolis: 30 Years of Afrofuturism, Comics, Music, Animation, Decapitated Chickens, Heroes, Villains and Negroes continues its awesome run at the prestigious Hammonds House Museum.

JOIN US for a TALK in Podcasting Funk with a LIVE AUDIENCE Saturday October 20th: at 4PM EST

AT THE HAMMONDS HOUSE MUSEUM
503 Peeples Street, SW
Atlanta, Georgia 30310

 

with

Ahmed Best

STOMP/ Jar Jar Binks in STAR WARS


and

Lonny J Avi Brooks, PhD.

Afrofuturist Scholar Associate Professor in Strategic Communication–Imagining the Future of Media, Cal State East Bay

We talk about all things Dieselfunk, Matty’s Rocket, INFINITUM, and AFROFUTURISM.

TUNE IN.