Black Superheroes featured in Art Exhibit

Peep this youTube video feature on Marvelous Color, an art exhibit at the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute featuring Marvel's most prominent black superheroes (Storm, Falcon, Black Panther, Blade, War Machine, and Luke Cage). this video has short interviews with Eric Battle and ChrisCross about their participation in the exhibit.
Marvelous Color starts with the New York show, which is associate-produced by Shady Records exec Riggs Morales. It will be up until February 26th, when it will move on to other locations. If you're interested in getting the show to come to your town, you might try contacting Somos Arte, LLC in Brooklyn.
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carryin' the Cross

one of my favorite artists ever is ChrisCross. no, not the mack daddy and the daddy mack, i'm talkin' about the comic book artist probably best known for his jaw-dropping work on Captain Marvel (written by Peter David and colored beautifully by Chris Sotomayor) for Marvel, and Firestorm (with writer Dan Jolley and inker John Dell) for DC.

I was first exposed to his work on Heroes (not the teevee show!), the short-lived spinoff of Shadow Cabinet published by Milestone Comics in the nineties. it was clear that he had a love of anime/manga storytelling techniques, and his energetic pencilling has only evolved over the years. not long after that, he did one of the influential books of my life in the opus-worthy XERO with Priest in the late Nineties. the title character is Coletrane "Train" Walker- a professional basketball player of Lebron-like proportions who is as controversial as Michael Vick for his general badassness, and who also just so happens to put on a white faced prosthetic mask and kill people as a costumed bionic-powered government operative who can walk on water, phase through walls, and pull your medical records just by looking you in the eye!

XERO is one of the best comics i've ever read. it should be reprinted and collected into trade, because it would have the kind of effect (on a lesser scale of course) as a Dark Knight Returns or Watchmen (for MY money, the best comic ever created), in that i believe it would really cause people to become interested in comics who currently don't care... Black people are terribly limited in what they can see of themselves in comics. if this book (which has several black people in it) was collected, blacks would likely give it a look at say a bookstore or something like that.

anyways, ChrisCross, who Priest calls "one of the greatest comic book storytellers alive" has been up to a lot since then... there's a great interview with series ChrisCross on newserama.

read it, homie!

holla

samax.

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