Biggups to the big homey Combat Jack who knows how the fux we get down in these streets. I had a nice little function to hit up lastnite at the LRG brand offices (shouts to DopeBoy Meka) but before then Combat Jack asked me to roll with him to this event that was put together by his homey Riggs Morales.
The event was called Marvelous Color and it is a celebration of six(6) of the iconic Marvel Comics superheroes that were brothers (and a sista). Black Panther, Falcon, Luke Cage, Storm, War Machine and Blade were all the subjects of the exhibit featuring original art and reproductions of legendary covers by some of the industry’s artists of color.
These heroic characters on the pages of my favorite comic books were my license to dream about being heroic myself. Comic books not only entertain their readers they actually empower their readers also. Comic books reconfigure our world so that we can all imagine wearing the mask or the cape. Marvelous Color recognizes that and celebrates it with us. This exhibit will be on display until the end of February. There is no reason for you to come to New York City and not come see this art show.
Marvelous Color
CCCADI Gallery
408 West 58th Street
M-F 10am-6pm
Is Nick Fury not included? Maybe the non-Ultimate was one of those blacks who passed as white. . .like Bob Barr.
But DP. Can you name 5 Hispanic/Latino superheroes that should/could get a comic cover? I don’t think Marvel even has 3.
I had been pulled away from the fantastic world of comics, due to real life priorities, but as my son gets older I find myself going back in. Yes hetero.
We’ve been playing Marvel Ultimate Alliance2 (on Wii) crazy tough, & they have trivia mini games, retell the story of the mutant civil war, give character histories. That game is a must have for niggas who know how to geek out over their comics.
Blade, Luke Cage & Storm are all playable. I thought they had Blade as a White, but nah. Just a light(er) Black dude than Wesley Snipes.
I see you Tony. DP, you are a funny nigga. Last nite was mad shits and giggles!
Yall remember Milestone Comics? I discovered Icon in some back street candle and incense spot downtown Brooklyn my mom dragged me to back in the 90s. I think they were distributed by DC and gave us ICON, the black version of Superman pretty much.
Have y’all cats heard about Tyrese “Coca Cola” Gibson’s comic book? Unintentionally hilarious.
sounds cool how much to get in.
6 100,
I met the writer/artist N. Steve Atkins? lastnite. My apologies for surely effing up his surname. I wanna say that he created a Latino character named Aztek for DC Comics who was surreptitously killed off when he left the company.
This exhibit was so official I am going back 2nite
Ya’ll–
I know very little about this lineage of cartooning so it’s great to see; I wonder if any of the DP fam read the old George Herriman strips at all? For the kids– and it bears repeating, DP is for the children– Herriman was a New Orleans raised Creole, who, through genius-level wit and subversion, became an American icon of ’20s-’40s even while playing all sorts of codes on a mass audience– salut!
Herriman was big influence on Ralph Bakshi*, I know, but I’m ig’nant of how George as a trickster race man might have fed into future black superheros, if at all.
* cool Bakshi podcast on his early cartooning days I found looking for something else:
http://www.ralphbakshi.com/blog/archives/000126.html
Brownsville stand up!
my son bishop got left out?
WSW, John Kriclafusi(sp), the dude who created on of my all time favorite ‘toons, Ren & Stimpy, was a protege of Bakshi. Kric worked with Bakshi illustrating my all time favorite Trickster blaxploitation film, Coonskin.
Shouts to DP.commenter and DMV Sneaker Fiends Unite! chairman JaiSlayer for snail-mailing me a copy of Coonskin and a Boba Fett bobblehead
AHHHHH!!! This is Krak!! Bishop needs to replace Falcon in this cover u got posted. Falcon is corny.
See? Now I’m fuxing sick b/c I aint in NY to see this shit. Thanks for posting *sigh*