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"John Jennings (b. 1970) is perhaps best known for his collaboration with Damian Duffy on the New York Times bestseller and Eisner Award-winning graphic novel adaptation of Octavia Butler's Kindred. However, Jennings is also a graphic designer and comic book scholar who, throughout his career, has conducted several interviews that shed light on the importance of Black Speculative narratives. The most enlightening of his interviews are brought together in John Jennings: Conversations. As a collective these interviews explore folklore, systemic racism, his Mississippi roots, and the phrase Jennings cocreated, the Ethnogothic. Jennings discusses the necessity for black heroes, not just for the sake of diversity, but for inclusiveness, touching on the conventions he has cofounded, such as the Schomburg Center's Black Comic Book Festival in Harlem. He addresses the struggle to be financially compensated for work, and he speaks at length about how being a professor informs his craft where he continues to examine black stereotypes in popular culture with courses of his own design. As a group the interviews in John Jennings: Conversations give a picture of a black man forging a way where comic books have afforded him a means to carve out an important space for people of color"-- Provided by publisher.

"Collected interviews with the graphic designer and comic book scholar who is best known for his collaboration with Damian Duffy on the New York Times bestseller and Eisner Award-winning graphic novel adaptation of Octavia Butler's Kindred"-- Provided by publisher.

Conversations with Comic Artists

Introduction

Chronology

Fantastic blackness with John Jennings / Raymond Morales

Black Kirby now: an interview with John Jennings / Julian Chambliss

"But they're ours:" John Jennings talks about black superheroes / Noah Berlatsky

Diversifying comics with John Jennings / Greg Anderson Eysee

Black art: why the artistic commentary of John Jennings is so important / Sheena E. Howard

The soul of black comics: an interview with John Jennings / Julian Chambliss

From Dark Water to Dark Matter: an interview with John Jennings / Tiffany Barber

King and faith: art and the urgency of now with John Jennings / Brian Watt

Black Panther brings Afrofuturism to the big screen / Christopher Lydon

John Jennings on adapting Kindred / Jessica Weber

John Jennings: creating social change with comics / Rickerby Hinds

Conversations at the Cohen Center: episode two an interview with John Jennings / Becca Evans

From the podcast Film Sense: Afrofuturism and the ethno-Gothic / Frank H. Woodward

John Jennings unpublished interview / Donna-lyn Washington.

Index.

Jennings, John, 1970- > Interviews.

Cartoonists > United States > Interviews.

African American cartoonists > Interviews.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Artists, Architects, Photographers.