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Yes, lots of comics were racist. A new generation of Black artists is reinventing them

Studio interest was in no small part due to the success of director Ryan Coogler’s take on “Black Panther,” along with the animated film “Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse.” They debunked the idea that movies starring Black-led superhero characters aren’t profitable, says Frances Gateward, professor of media theory and criticism at Cal State Northridge and co-editor of “The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art.”

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2021-04-29/yes-lots-of-comics-were-racist-a-new-generation-of-black-artists-is-reinventing-them

Los Angeles Times

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