3rd Annual Black Comic Book Festival

The 3rd Annual Black Comic Book Festival took place this past weekend in Harlem at the Schomburg Center. Jordan and I were in attendance reporting (read: live tweeting) from the field. This was both of our first times being at this festival but we still managed to run into some familiar faces like Jerry Craft (creator of Mama’s Boyz), who did a podcast with Jordan not too long ago. Jerry informed us of how packed it would get and bruh… he ain’t ever lied. “And That Atmosphere Be So Black” [divider type=”space_thin”] It started to get filled very quickly. We knew it was real once we saw the cosplayers coming out. It ain’t a festival till the cosplayers christen the building. Jordan and I then started to make rounds at the festival, visiting different artist’s booths. The majority of the work was independent, yet I remember being familiar with certain art such as Shawn Alleyne’s (Street Team) Nubia Wonder Woman art, Alithia Martinez’s (DC Comics / Marvel) Yume and Ever as well as Watson and Holmes graphic novel due to them being circulating around on Tumblr. To go from reblogging to meeting these artists was incredible. I was having a conversation with the writer of Watson and Holmes Karl Bollers and listening to him talk about his work on his book as well as his other projects was invigorating. I remember reaching to my wallet and then looking at Jordan as he said, “Yeah… we’re bout to spend all the money.” We took about two steps towards another table where I proceeded to…