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The MoonGirls

Date:
Dec 27 2020

Drama Queens Ghana’s “MoonGirls” is an Afrofuturistic graphic novel series. Through an Afrofuturistic lens, “MoonGirls follows the adventures of 4 African “supersheroes” with varying superpowers to save the world from a diverse range of forces; from patriarchy, rape culture to…

Mueller Report Graphic Novel

Practitioner:
Barbara Slate

Date:
Dec 27 2020

The Mueller Report, important as it is, has not been read by most Americans. While perhaps written in more accessible language than other federal reports, there have been efforts to bring it into other formats: audio books, performances, and The…

Miles Morales

Practitioner:
Marvel Comics

Date:
Dec 27 2020

From The Huffington Post: In his lyrics under the rap pseudonym Childish Gambino, Donald Glover proposed, “I’ll be your hero – Donald for Spider-Man.” It might have sounded innocuous to the uninitiated ear – just another hip-hop boast among many…

Modi, A Message To You

Practitioner:
Ska Vengers

Date:
Dec 27 2020

Mode, A Message To You Remember the ska tune “A Message to You, Rudy” by the British band The Specials? Now an Indian band called the Ska Vengers is making waves with a cover of the song that wades deeply…

If I Don’t Get Pants Nobody Gets Pants

Practitioner:
Theamat aka Cynthia Sousa

Date:
Dec 27 2020

Submission for The Line is Drawn, theme “Male superheroes see how the other side lives”. Wonder Woman makes the rest of the JLA wear various costumes she’s had over the years. External sources: http://theamat.deviantart.com/art/If-I-don-t-get-pants-nobody-gets-pants-2880251…

Crocodile in Water, Tiger on Land

Practitioner:
Crocodile in Water, Tiger on Land

Date:
Dec 27 2020

Crocodile in Water, Tiger on Land Crocodile in Water, Tiger on Land is a series of black and white comic strip that takes a sharp sniper-shots at India’s myriad idiosyncrasies. There is a new strip available every Monday. Despite the…

Real Cost of Prisons

Practitioner:
Real Cost of Prisons

Date:
Dec 27 2020

The Real Cost of Prisons Project brings together justice activists, artists, researchers and people directly experiencing the impact of mass criminalization to work to end mass incarceration. The Real Cost of Prisons Project is a national organization, begun in 2000.…

Comics: A Graphic Record of the Here and Now

Practitioner:
Creative Time, curated by Shane Bennan, multiple artists

Date:
Dec 27 2020

Creative Time, a public art fund, invited artists to make online comics that addressed contemporary issues. Every month for two years a new artist presented their comic strip online. At the end, there were a total of 24 comic works…

World Comics Network

Practitioner:
Sharad Sharma

Date:
Dec 27 2020

With World Comics India, the organization he started, Sharad has pioneered a cheap and easy medium for poor people to communicate meaningfully on issues that are neglected by the conventional media. While the urban elite dominates public media, the grinding…

Unemployed Man Is the Unofficial Superhero of Occupy Wall Street

Practitioner:
Gan Golan

Date:
Dec 27 2020

Unemployed Man and his costumed colleagues stormed Wall Street on Monday morning, bringing some superhero street theater — and a 16-foot evil robot known as the Slot Bot — to the Occupy protests in New York.The Superheroes versus Economic Supervillains smackdown was…