Here's the tale of the 1st story that I ever had in Image Comics: Back in 1971 , writer Gary Friedrich (creator of Ghost-Rider ) & comics artist Rich Buckler created a comic starring Butterfly , the 1st Black superheroine to ever appear in comics! She was a soul singer, Marian Michaels , who fought crime in costume with a jet-pack and wings. (You can read that original story here .) Unfortunately, Butterfly's publisher, Skywald , went out of business the next month, and never

A comic about making comics! Here are some basic tips for drawing and writing your own comics or manga.

When I was a kid, I watched this cartoon called SilverHawks. It was basically Thundercats , except these characters were all cybernetic cops. All of them had cool names like QuickSilver, Bluegrass, SteelHeart & SteelWill. After 21 episodes, one Black character finally apparead... and they named him HotWing . Like a piece of chicken. HOTWING! I made a video about this (and the making of this comic), Watch it here ! Anyway, in this comic, HotWing talks to another Black cybor

R. Alan & Jolyon Yates teamed up for a 16 pg story about a young black boy who wanders into a suburban neighborhood. CLICK TO DOWNLOAD

Jerrold’s Lament is a standalone short comic that takes place right after volume one of The Burning Metronome, where Walter and Dania meet a young man who's lost all hope.

In 1989, on the final episode of a sitcom called Webster, the eponymous character   spent the day with Lieutenant Worf of Star Trek: The Next Generation . I just learned about this a couple of months ago ! I found the episode, and watched it. That mug was weird, and I didn't actually enjoy it very much. So I imagined what might be a cooler conversation between these 2 characters. And thus was born the comic that's attached to this post! If you become a member of my website o

This is an educational comic that I wrote for Basalt Libraries, with art by my buddy Sabyasachi Chakma. The challenge here was to get across a LOT of information about vaccines in 4 pages, while still making it sort of fun and engaging. Sabyasachi's artwork definitely helped a lot in regards to the latter. The research in this comic was provided by the library, and I learned a lot of things I didn't know. The library also provided the Spanish translation for the comic, so you

The Burning Metronome Issue #1 is hailed as a cross between "The Twilight Zone" and the classic murder mystery "The Usual Suspects". The...