John Jennings is an Associate Professor of Art and Visual Studies at the University at Buffalo-State University of New York. His work centers around intersectional narratives regarding identity politics and popular media. Jennings is co-editor of the Eisner Award nominated collection The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art (Rutgers University Press, 2015) and co-founder/organizer of The Schomburg Center’s Black Comic Book Festival in Harlem. He is co-founder and organizer of the MLK NorCal’s Black Comix Arts Festival in San Francisco and also SOL-CON: The Brown and Black Comix Expo at the Ohio State University. Jennings is currently a Nasir Jones Hip Hop Studies Fellow with the Hutchins Center at Harvard University. Jennings’ current comics projects include the hip hop adventure comic Kid Code: Channel Zero (Rosarium Publishing, 2014), the supernatural crime noir story Blue Hand Mojo (Rosarium Publishing, 2015), and the graphic novel adaptation of Octavia Butler’s classic dark fantasy novel Kindred (Abrams Books, 2017).
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