YOU KNOW YOU WANT IT- "The Crossover" by Kwame Alexander & Dawud Anyabwile

My man John shared these pages from The Crossover on Facebook, but it wasn't shareable, so I repatriated 'em for you guys!

BROTHERMAN added to the Smithsonian!

I have just learned that choice artifacts and original art from the groundbreaking independent comic Brotherman: Dictator of Discipline have been permanently secured as part of the Smithsonian's National African American Museum of History and Culture in Washington DC!

The wait is OVER! #BrothermanRevelation is HERE!

Dawud @Anyabwile of Brotherman Comics, the Drawing From The Soul Lecture Series and more on the next @BlackComicsChat

This BROTHERMAN:REVELATIONS promo vid gave me a shot in the arm!

Guy A. Sims, Dawud Anyabile and Brian McGee are getting their dream team on if this video is any indication of the level of post-medicinal dope we can expect from their upcoming original graphic novel Brotherman: Revelations...

"Rise In Power" Mike Brown speedpaint by Dawud @Anyabwile, beats and rhymes by @DISTRAKT

The mighty Dawud Anyabwile (Brotherman) dropped this speedpaint video for Rise In Power, his tribute to Michael Brown on the internet over the weekend, with audio assist from Colorado-based emcee/producer DISTRAKT.
Peep the speedpaint vid and final piece below...

"RISEN"- a rough animatic by Dawud Anyabwile

Here's a cool YouTube clip dropped on the internet by the mighty Dawud Anyabwile, for those who like to look at animatics...

"WALKING WITH GODS" starring David Banner is my new SHEET!!!

Jackson, Mississippi's favorite son David Banner is beating up the game again, this time with the debut of his live action superhero web series Walking With Gods, in which he stars as Alex, a southern cat whose perfect life is upended when an evil deity decides to get all up in his shit. Credits also include the mighty Dawud Anyabwile (Brotherman) on storyboards and producing and John Jennings (The Hole, Black Comix, Black Kirby) on graphic design.

Dope Django fan art sketchvid by Dawud Anyabwile!

Peep the speed sketch video of this fresh Django Unchained fan art by the mighty Dawud Anyabwile (Brotherman).

I finally added "Black Comix" added to my online store!

I was able to get a few copies of the beautiful hardcover BLACK COMIX:African American Independent Comics, Art and Culture from the publisher at a good price, so I was finally able to add it to my online store.

Dawud Anyabwile speedpaints STICKY FINGAZ

Just saw this ill speedpaint of Sticky Fingaz from Onyx by indie comics legend Dawud Anyabwile and had to share...

DVD REVIEW- "White Scripts and Black Supermen" directed by Jonathan Gayes, PhD

White Scripts and Black Supermen cover art by John Jennings.

In college I minored in Social Science, a combination of Sociology and Psychology. This facilitated lots of ruminating on race, and the the many ways we talk about it as individuals and as a society. Also being a card-carrying comicbook nerd enthusiast, I jumped for joy at the thought of White Scripts and Black Supermen, a documentary featuring scholarly discourse focused on the genesis of black superheroes at all-white companies like Marvel and DC...

Fresh Caricature speedpaint by the mighty Dawud Anyabwile

Here's another speedpaint video below by cartoonist, father and volunteer black superman Dawud Anyabwile (Brotherman).

Brotherman speedpaint for the process junkies out there...

Here's some video of Dawud Anyabwile tightening up a Brotherman storyboard/concept piece. Always interesting to see how another artist gets down...

Charlie Goubile's BLACKBIRD graphic novel is OUT NOW!!!

If you've been reading GhettoManga very long, you already know I straight cheerleads for Charlie "Fab" Goubile, and especially for his martial arts vigilante comic Blackbird.  Now Goubile has collected his first miniseries into the brand new trade paperback Blackbird:Growing Pains, and it looks really dope!

Harlem Book Fair: Black Comix Discussion on C-SPAN!

The authors of Black Comix: African American Independent Comics, Art and Culture (John Jennings and Damian Duffy, if you ain't already know), as well as other luminaries in black comics and prose like Dawud Anyabwile (Brotherman) and L.A. Banks (Vampire Huntress) are participating in a conversation about literacy in the digital age. The panel discussion is taking place at the Harlem Book Fair, so if you're in the area, check it out! It will also be broadcast on C-SPAN tonight July 17 at 6.45 pm. If you don't have cable, don't worry! We gotchoo...

ya hear THAT, ya slobs: I'm FAMOUS!

If you've been with me a while, you may already know that I'm featured in the upcoming book Black Comix: African American Independent Comics, Art and Culture by underground comics dudes Damian Duffy and John Jennings (The Hole: Consumer Culture). I had no idea that my drawing of Maddy from Champion of Children would make it onto the cover of that joint, until my dude Vee of ScritchAndScratch.com put me on!

Dawud breaks down Brotherman

my dude Goldi was in attendance at the opening reception of Drawing From The Soul: The Official Brotherman Comics Art Experience and got the footage below of the presentation given by Dawud Anyabwile (Brotherman), where he breaks down some of the concepts in his classic comic, and the new Brotherman graphic novel.
The exhibit will be up at the Auburn Avenue Research Library in Atlanta until June 30, 2010

Yeah, I'm featured in this book... so you KNOW it'll be good!

Comics creators and educators Damian Duffy and John Jennings (The Hole: Consumer Culture) have teamed up to produce an exhaustive 176 page book covering the expansive and diverse world of black comics.  Black Comix: African American Independent Comics, Art and Culture has an introduction by Keith Knight (The K Chronicles), and is so thorough, that I'M in it, along with Dawud Anyabwile (Brotherman), Arie Munroe (Mainasha) and more!

here's the Sales Pitch:

The immense popularity of comics and graphic novels cannot be ignored. But in light of the comics boom that has taken place over the past 10 years, the artists, writers and publishers that make up the vibrant African American independent comics community have remained relatively unknown – until now. Black Comix brings together an unprecedented collection of largely unheard of, and undeniably masterful, comics art while also framing the work of these men and women in a broader historical and cultural context.

With a foreword by Keith Knight and over 50 contributors, including Phonzie Davis, Jan-Michael Franklin, Frances Liddell, Kenjji Marshall, Lance Tooks, Rob Stull, Ashley A. Woods and many, more, the cross section of comics genres represented includes manga, superheroes, humor, history, science fiction and fantasy. This book is a must-have for comics readers.
Having talked to John Jennings on several occasions, i can tell you that these dudes are at LEAST as obsessed with the black comics underground as I am, and way more organized! my expectation is that the book is gonna be the BOMB! Black Comix: African American Independent Comics, Art and Culture is scheduled to drop in the late spring, but you can click here to pre-order that joint right now on Amazon.com and get a 34% discount.

Brotherman's Origin

Dawud Anyabwile, co-creator and illustrator of the Brotherman:Dictator of Discipline breaks bread with Jeff Johnson of JJ ON ATLANTA television show. in this interview, Dawud reflects on the origins of Brotherman and the place his books have in the landscape of black comics subculture. read more about Brotherman here.
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