Found at Con: Indie Black and Latinx /Comic Creators from Silicon Valley Comic Con

After a long weekend at Silicon Valley Comic Con, I shifted through the business cards, cute stickers, and Funko Pops — oh so many Funko Pops — to find the pile of comics I’d bought in several crazy-busy trips to artist alley. While there were a LOT of illustrators and artists present, this wasn’t a comics heavy convention. Even still, I collected 4 new comics I’d never heard of from writers/artists local to the Northern California area. It is great knowing that comic book artists are working all around and great to be able to support them with the purchase of a #1. Let me introduce them to you. These aren’t super-polished comics by any means, so if you’re looking for expensive printing, year-long plot arcs, or the kind of art that comes from 4 different artists, these aren’t for you. But if you’re looking for the new, the personal, the unique, and the genuinely loved, one of these might fit your taste. Check out these artists, fam. Try something new today.

Menhit the Mighty

Writer: Jaimel Hemphill / Artists: Marvin Law & Mickey Clausen / National Press Comics I bought this book as soon as I saw the cover. Ancient North African gods ripped forward into our time? Yes, please, thank you. In this action superhero comic, shy archaeology student Tina Taylor, touches the wrong artifact in a museum and discovers that she’s the modern avatar for the goddess Menhit, a Nubian war goddess who is an eternal struggle with her nemesis, Sekhmet the Egyptian goddess of war usually f…