‘The Saddest Angriest Black Girl in Town’ to be Reprinted Via Kickstarter

Originally, I know creative Robyn Smith as the artist behind fave Wash Day (which is headed for a graphic novel adaptation titled, The Wash Day Diaries, to be published by Chronicle Books in Fall 2021!) She’s been busy with Nubia: Real One–the YA take on one of DC Comics’ most beloved characters is being published later this month. She’d had previous work published that I did not have a chance to get my hands on before. The comic was originally self-published by Smith in 2016 and was named one of the best short-form comics of 2016 by The Comics Journal.  Thankfully, Black Josei Press, a press started up by her Wash Day better half, Jamila Rowser, is republishing the out-of-print The Saddest Angriest Black Girl in Town, with a new cover and never before seen process pages.

What is This Comic About?

“The Saddest Angriest Black Girl in Town is an autobiographical comic dedicated to exploring the intersection of Blackness and mental health. It speaks to the contradiction/dilemma of being invisible while simultaneously being hyper-visible.

(New vellum cover on the left and the new watercolor interior cover on the right.)

“To be a Black girl in a majority white space is to be ignored but constantly observed. Feelings of isolation and anxiety push the story along to reveal that this experience, while super specific is completely understood, by those who experience the same. Black women.”

Why Auto-Biographical Comics? I’m always game for auto-biographical comics, esp…