John Jennings : conversations / edited by Donna-lyn Washington.

"John Jennings (b. 1970) is perhaps best known for his collaboration with Damian Duffy on the New York Times bestseller and Eisner Award-winning graphic novel adaptation of Octavia Butler's Kindred. However, Jennings is also a graphic designer and comic book scholar who, throughout his career, has c...

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Uniform Title:Interviews. Selections
Other Authors: Jennings, John, 1970- (Interviewee), Washington, Donna-lyn (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2020.
Series:Conversations with comic artists.
Subjects:
Jennings, John, > 1970- > Interviews.
Cartoonists > United States > Interviews.
African American cartoonists > Interviews.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Artists, Architects, Photographers.
African American cartoonists.
Cartoonists.
United States.
Interviews.
Genre:
Interviews.
Physical Description:xvii, 149 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Chronology
  • Fantastic blackness with John Jennings / Raymond Morales
  • Black Kirby now: an interview with John Jennings / Julian Chambliss
  • "But they're ours:" John Jennings talks about black superheroes / Noah Berlatsky
  • Diversifying comics with John Jennings / Greg Anderson Eysee
  • Black art: why the artistic commentary of John Jennings is so important / Sheena E. Howard
  • The soul of black comics: an interview with John Jennings / Julian Chambliss
  • From Dark Water to Dark Matter: an interview with John Jennings / Tiffany Barber
  • King and faith: art and the urgency of now with John Jennings / Brian Watt
  • Black Panther brings Afrofuturism to the big screen / Christopher Lydon
  • John Jennings on adapting Kindred / Jessica Weber
  • John Jennings: creating social change with comics / Rickerby Hinds
  • Conversations at the Cohen Center: episode two an interview with John Jennings / Becca Evans
  • From the podcast Film Sense: Afrofuturism and the ethno-Gothic / Frank H. Woodward
  • John Jennings unpublished interview / Donna-lyn Washington.
  • Index.