WINC: Exploring the Forum & Format of Comics

WINC: Exploring the Forum & Format of Comics

Greetings Dieselfunkateers!

Lo and Behold.  Women In Comics Convention TODAY! at the main branch of the Brooklyn Public Library.  I had to come up for air for a second from working hard on INFINITUM.  I was asked by Supah Sistah Supreme, Regine Sawyer, Founder of Women IN Comics, to moderate an AWESOME panel titled:

Exploring the Forum & Format of Comics

Comics are going through disruptive change with the ever present nature of more advanced technologies. This panel investigates the different forums of showcase, consumption, and distribution of the comicbook medium. Panelist will also cover how these elements can be covered in an educational context within the physical and virtual learning environments.

Participants are:

Micheline Hess (Artist: Malice In Ovenland)

Marguerite Dabaie (Artist/Writer: THE HOOKAH GIRL AND OTHER TRUE STORIES

Clairesa Clay (Scholar and Founder of Blerd City)

Mia Charlene White (Assistant Professor at The New School for Social Research

Greg Anderson Elysée (Writer: Is’nana The Were Spider)

Shawn Martinbrough (Artist: Luke Cage Noir, Thief of Thieves, Shadowman)

And of course moderated by Tim Fielder (Writer/Artist: Matty’s Rocket)

Brooklyn Public Library is an approved Sponsor of Continuing Teacher and Leader Education (CTLE) in New York State. At the close of the workshop, attendees with be issued a certificate for 1 hour of CTLE credit.

TODAY: June 30 2018, 1:15 PM – 2:15 PM  Brooklyn Public Library, 10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, NY 11238, USA

SEE YOU THERE!

Tomorrow! Matty’s Rocket on WBAI MORNING SHOW!

Tomorrow! Matty’s Rocket on WBAI MORNING SHOW!

Greetings Dieselfunkateers!  The Dieselfunk Train keeps on a-chuggin along ladies and gentlemen.  Media work is in FULL SWING as we approach The 2018 Schomburg Black Comic Book Day.

TOMORROW MORNING January 9th 6-8 AM The Dieselfunk Crew will be interviewed on:

Pacifica Radio’s WBAI MORNING SHOW

Hosted by: Michael G. Haskins + Andrew Jones

Pacifica Radio is known for doing cutting edge content showcasing the progressive ideals inherent in intellectual and progressive thought.  Tomorrow morning, I, Tim Fielder, will be interviewed on WBAI about all things Matty’s Rocket.  TUNE IN!!!!

and btw, FIGHT!

Matty Matters

Matty Matters

Greetings Dieselfunkateers!   Decades ago I embarked on the mission to produce a character that would embody the spirit of adventure, fun, and drama.  Well actually, I’ve always tried to do that with every character I do.  I grew up looking at Superman, Batman, Buck Rogers, Star Wars.  As a child of the 60s-70s I had my heroes that allowed me to wonder.  But I oftentimes wondered what those of my parents generation and earlier had as lighthouses of valor?  Did they have a Flash Gordon or a Rocketman?  Sadly, the answer was NO.  Representation of people of color was systemically depicted in the most stereotypical fashion; if at all.  When it came to genre’s such as Science Fiction and Action Adventure, there was literally no representation at all; with only obscure exceptions.  Black and Brown boys and girls, let alone men and women, could not see themselves in outer space.  Upon the arrival of the 1960-70s things would begin to slowly change.  There was Lt. Uhura and Lando Calrissian.  But they often seemed alone…literally the only black people in space.  In the remote chance they were present, they would die at the hands of the alien or monster…just before the credits rolled or our comic came to an end.  More regressive was the depiction of female characters in an over-sexualized state.  This is and still remains rampant in comics.  In a crazed yet equal way, the mysogyny of female characters are not bound by color or ethnicity.  Nothing more sobering and insidious than seeing our earth mother heroine wearing a thong.  There would be no escape for us.

But…Perhaps it didn’t have to be that way?

Matty’s Rocket is designed to go beyond such limitations while acknowledging our past history.  No doubt this story is designed specifically for women of color but the universality of the themes aspire to connect with everyone.

BIG NEWS coming up shortly.  Stand by!

Black Enterprise Black Comics Roundtable

Black Enterprise Black Comics Roundtable

BLACK ENTERPRISE Black Comics Roundtable

Greetings Dieselfunkateers! Imagine if a call was made to some of the most innovative creators around to discuss the state of BLACK COMICS.  ThIs was done today at Black Enterprise Magazine offices.  Under the careful guidance of Author, Samara Lynn, (with George Carmona running Shotgun) illustrious artisans such as Naseed Gifted (Khem Comic Fest, Dilettante J Bass (PB Soldier), Regine Sawyer (Lockett Down Productions), Joseph P Illidge (Lion Forge/Solarman), N Steven Harris (Solarman), Micheline Hess (Malice In Ovenland), Dewunmi Roye Okupe (Youneek Studios/ Malika Kickstarter), and myself, Tim Fielder (Matty’s Rocket /The Dieselfunk Show) laid waste to the myth that brothers and sisters don’t read and create comics.

WE DO!

THEN...

Derek Dingle (co-founder of MILESTONE MEDIA and Senior VP/Editor-In-Chief of Black Enterprise Magazine) beamed down to let us know that we are doing important work. (I promise you the light beam was not photoshopped:-)

Well Alright Then:-)

Look at the replay of the Black Enterprise Black Comics Roundtable Periscope. Most importantly, look out for the upcoming October issue of Black Enterprise Magazine IN PRINT and ONLINE.

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Black Metropolis Reception

Black Metropolis Reception

BLACK METROPOLIS

May 23-30th  Reception May 26th 5-7pm  

Greetings Dieselfunkateers!  From May 23-30th, Dieselfunk Studios and Gallatin Galleries will present the long awaited Premiere of ‘BLACK METROPOLIS:  30 Years of Afrofuturism, Comics, Music, Animation,  Decapitated Chickens, Heroes, Villains, and, and Negroes.  

PRESS RELEASE

Black Metropolis will present to the world decades of published and unpublished work by artist Tim Fielder. The primary focus of this show is to bring to light work that was part of the visual foundation that exists in this present ’Age of Afrofuturism’.  BLACK METROPOLIS  is the visual and emotional ideal, not necessarily the physical construct, of an infinite cosmopolitan space where Black People can be anything or anyone they choose in the PAST, PRESENT or FUTURE.

Features from Black Metropolis include work from:

  • ‘Matty’s Rocket’ the Comic series and Animated series.
  • Early cartooning for The Village Voice, Black Rock Coalition with a focus on the music, punk and afropunk scene.
  • Pages from the infamous Marvel Music comic ‘DR. DRE:  Man With A Cold Cold Heart’.
  • Concept Images from the Parliament Funkadelic Sci-fi Movie ‘Mothership Connection’.
  • Artist Tim Fielder will be present all days creating his special brand of Afrofuturism.

and Much More.

 

Tim Fielder

Contact:  tim@dieselfunk.com

 

Gallatin Galleries

1 Washington Pl @ Broadway
New York, NY 10003

Get Directions: Map  (R Train to 8th St)

SHOW HOURS

Mon:  3pm – 7pm.

Tue- Fri: 10am – 7pm.

Sat: 10 am – 4 pm.
Sun: Closed.

TIm Fielder Statement:  “It has always been my dream to showcase my work in the weird and wonderful ways they came to me.  Now I can display the passion I have for the way Black People look, worship, love, hate, live, fight, and fly.  

‘BLACK METROPOLIS:  30 Years of Afrofuturism, Comics, Music, Animation,  Decapitated Chickens, Heroes, Villains, and, and Negroes. will be soon published in a large format book for audiences to enjoy.

BIO:  Tim Fielder is a Glyph Award winning Illustrator, concept designer, cartoonist, and animator born in Tupelo, Mississippi, and raised in Clarksdale, Mississippi. He has a lifelong love of Visual Afrofuturism, Pulp entertainment, and action films.   He holds other Afrofuturists such as Samuel Delany, Steven Barnes, Octavia Butler, John Jennings, and Stacey Robinson as major influences.  He has worked over the years in the storyboarding, film visual development, gaming, comics, and animation industries for clients as varied as Marvel Comics, The Village Voice, Tri-Star Pictures, to Ubisoft Entertainment.  He also is an educator for institutions such as the New York Film Academy and Howard University.  Tim hopes to push forward with his art in the emerging digital content delivery systems of the day.  He is also known for his TEDx Talkon the subject of Afrofuturism, and for founding AFROFUTUREFEST, the first branded collective booth of creators of color in New York Comicon history.  His project, Matty’s Rocket, is a product from his company Dieselfunk Studios.  Tim makes his home with his wife and children in the rapidly gentrifying neighborhood of Harlem.

Dieselfunk Studios is a multimedia company that specializes in narrative stories told in sequential, app, and virtual formats. We strive to move the form forward in traditional and emerging markets.

The Gallatin Galleries opened in Spring 2009 and has since hosted curated shows exploring contemporary ideas in a variety of media, exhibitions of student work, and, faculty projects. With three floors in the Gallatin building and a ground floor space with windows onto Washington Place, the gallery is a site of conversation within Gallatin School of Individualized Study at NYU and with the larger community. The gallery continually pushes to seek out new ways of understanding contemporary issues through the lens of art by student and professional artists as well as to explore the many ways that art can engage with these ideas.

It is the gallery’s goal to engage contemporary social issues through the broadest spectrum of contemporary art, documents and events.

1 Washington Pl @ Broadway
New York, NY 10003

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