Interview With Toren Chenault, Writer & Editor of ‘A Cold, Dark Universe’ Anthology

Black Nerd Problems had the pleasure of chopping it up with Toren Chenault, Co-Founder of Black Hole Comics & Entertainment. If you’ve never heard of Black Hole before today, then you’re gonna want to remember that name because they aren’t going anywhere any time soon. Black Hole is all about diversity and uplifting creative voices. Many of the names attatched to their projects are up and comers, or people who have yet to find a foot in their respective fields. So many people are just one chance away from getting consistent work, and having a platform like Blackhole that’s dedicated to giving people that chance is just the type of thing we need in pretty much every creative field. In addition to talking about Black Hole as a whole, Toren gave all the juicy details about BHC’s first comics anthology A Cold, Dark Universe which is live on Kickstarter right now. Black Hole’s pillars Origin Story Black Nerd Problems: Can you tell me a little bit about what Black Hole Comics & Entertainment is and how it got started? Toren Chenault: It’s funny because I’m not even sure what we are, haha. I used to say we were a media production company. Or maybe we’re a small press publisher? I don’t know and I don’t really think it matters. Because Black Hole is really just an idea, at its core. The bones of it started when I worked at a comic shop with my friend Nick Couture. Our manager was a middle-aged white man who didn’t read comics and would leave early on Wednesdays to go bowli…