Matty on Publishers Weekly MORE TO COME

Matty on Publishers Weekly MORE TO COME

Greetings Dieselfunkateers!  Just getting back in from our most recent stop on The #mattysrocketbooktour.  Just before leaving, I was honored to be interviewed by the Legend, Calvin Reid, Senior News Editor of PUBLISHERS WEEKLY.  I was recently having a conversation with a colleague about how important Calvin’s work is with regards to the medium of comics and graphic novels.  The medium has in this gentleman, an ambassador and town cryer; something every industry needs in order to survive.  Everyone has that thing that they do well, do with passion, and would do for free.  Calvin LOVES COMICS.  

This is exhibited most profoundly in his work as host of: PW’s MORE TO COME.

We talked about Matty’s Rocket, my process, Black Panther, Dieselfunk Studios, and our upcoming graphic novel, INFINITUM.

Calvin is like ‘The Shadow’ with that frikin ring.  He turned it towards me and I suddenly got dizzy and had to follow his commands.  Unwillingly!:-)  I gave a scoop for MATTY’S ROCKET BOOK TWO!

ITS NOT MY FAULT!!!:-)

Captain Battle Dark Defender of Harlem Sector

Captain Battle Dark Defender of Harlem Sector

CAPTAIN BATTLE:  Dark Defender of Harlem Sector

 

 

Greetings Dieselfunkateers!  A very quick update on the upcoming release of MATTY’S ROCKET 3:  UNEXPECTED GUESTS.  Work is closing out on the story and I must say, I feel it’s my best work yet.

EXTRA EXTRA!!  Matty’s Rocket issues 1 and 2 will be REISSUED very shortly with BRAND NEW CONTENT.  Amongst that content I am introducing:

CAPTAIN BATTLE.

Take a bit of Sam Battle, the First Black New York Police Department Officer

Add in a bit of Walter B Gibson’s The Shadow 

Then pop a smidgeon Eugene Bullard, first African-American military pilot.

Pay your respects to the Character that got you back in the GAME,

Alexander Simmons’ Blackjack

Finally set it in the same universe as:

And you’ve got:

 

STANDBY

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Matty In BAX 2016

Matty In BAX 2016

MATTY IN BAX 2016

 

 

Greetings Dieselfunkateers!  BAX 2016: Best American Experimental Writing Imagine the surprise when approached by BAX 2016 Best American Experimental Writing.  Well it happened, and we’ve just received our copy in the mail.  This literary volume, featuring the best in poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction was expertly edited by Seth Abramson, Charles Bernstein and Tracie Morris.  Notable participants include President Barack Obama, Myung Mi Kim and Samuel R Delany amongst many others.  I mean, if you’re  gonna keep company, that ain’t bad company.  http://bax.site.wesleyan.edu/

Buy your copy here.  https://www.amazon.com/BAX-2016-American-Experimental-Writing/dp/0819576743/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8

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NY Times: Black Metropolis & Mattys Rocket

NY Times: Black Metropolis & Mattys Rocket

NYTIMES: BLACK METROPOLIS & MATTY’S ROCKET

Greetings Dieselfunkateers!   Over the last 7 months an awesome amount of work was done by writer goddess Ruth La Ferla on the subject of Afrofuturism in The NEW YORK TIMES article titled

Afrofuturism: The Next Generation

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/12/fashion/afrofuturism-the-next-generation.html

Covered within the article is my one man show, BLACK METROPOLIS:  30 Years of Afrofuturism, Comics, Music, Animation,  Decapitated Chickens, Heroes, Villains, and, and Negroes.   and my retro-afrofuturism comic, Matty’s Rocket!

As I have been a participant of the form for over 30 years, it is indeed a moving emotion that comes to bear.  BLACK METROPOLIS, and MATTY’S ROCKET represents my particular take on the depiction of black culture within a technological and socially expansive based Past, Present, and FUTURE of WHO and WHAT WE ARE.

Expect MORE NEWS to come over the coming days with a behind the scenes expose on Black Metropolis, Matty’s Rocket, Afrofuturism, Dieselfunk, Dieselfunk Studios, INFINITUM, The Dieselfunk Store, and The Black Speculative Arts Movement.

I want to thank Ruth La Ferla, Boston Fielder, Ed Marshall Photography, Richardine Bartee, Genesis Rivera, Sabaah Folayan, Reynaldo Anderson, Angelica Rogers, Keith Miller, Meredith Theeman, Liza Jesse Peterson, John Jennings, Stacey Robinson and last but most certainly not least, My FAMILY.

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