In this episode Kwanza talks about the hit Kickstarter, BLACK.
Topics include Kwanza talking about why a book like this hasn’t existed yet, the popularity of the superhero genre, not enough diversity in comics, Milestone, making changes, racial profiling, deciding an editor needs an editor, the graphic novel format, publishing models, ideal audience, being underrepresented, getting pissed off with Robot Batman, and what he’s reading!
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Matt: Kara
Kara: Matt.
Matt: Welcome back to comiXology Conversations.
Kara: Your premier podcast destination for what’s happening for the comics creators of the world.
Matt: That’s trademarked. That’s true. We’re here with a premier creator right now, Kickstarter happening right now through the rough, what if the only people that could get superpowers were black people. This is the world that you want to read about right now.
Kara: Everyday.
Matt: ComiXology’s a part of it. You can get the digital redemption for that book. Kwanza Osajyefo welcome to the show.
Kwanza: Thanks for having me on guys.
Matt: You’ve been in the comics industry for a while. You were a former DC editor, Marvel, and you did some really cool things with social media for InstaCop, I remember that when that came out it was, you could only read it on Instagram or Twitter or what have you. This Kickstarter’s a bit different. The pitch is easy enough, which I mentioned before, but it’s never happened before. Why hasn’t this idea ever happened before?
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