Posted on 07/28/2014 11:03:22 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Of the hundreds of panels available at Comic-Con, which drew to a close on Sunday, none are more respected than the long-running Black Panel, hosted by the comic book creator and Milestone Media co-founder Michael Davis. Unlike most of the other panels at Comic-Con, the Black Panel has nothing to sell, and features guests who also have nothing to promote. Instead, it is a discussion between audience and panel members about black culture, a way for prominent figures in African American entertainment to reach out to those who hope to emulate their paths to success.
Davis started the panel in 1998, five years after he founded Milestone, a comic book entertainment company responsible for some of the most successful black superheroes of the 90s, like Icon, a 300-year-old alien whose first earthly encounter was with a slave woman in the American south, and Static, about a high school teenager who receives superpowers after being mistakenly caught up in a gang war.
Today, the Black Panel is an institution. It is given a 90-minute slot at Comic-Con, a rare honour for any panel, and the panel alum have included RZA, Shaquille O'Neal and Nichelle Nichols, aka Lieutenant Uhura of Star Trek. This year, the Black Panel played host to Ne-Yo, J August Richards, Kevin Grevioux, Cree Summer, Erika Alexander, Tatiana El Khouri and Orlando Jones.
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I’m more interested in comic creators who make works that stand alone. I’m not buying them as a fashion accessory.
Is this writer trying to make the case that black people don’t like or read Spider-Man?
Is Orlando Jones (actor) tweeting about some new comic publisher who is a black man going to translate to SALES to each of those 100,000 followers?
Or is it going to get them to just recognize a character name that may LATER blip up on the radar as some new adapted movie franchise?
This sounds like an interesting panel.
...a form of literature....
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Sorry, no.
Your opinion... and I’m ok with that
Just like I don’t consider the NYT or MSNBC journalism.
I agree - but a lot of the conventions have panels with collectors, appraisers, peripheral entertainers, etc as a way to try to create extra draw.
Just like they have the costume contests(definitely not my thing), etc .
If there is ONE THING that Sandy Ego Con doesn’t need it is “extra draw”.
It’s lurched over the shark.
It’s the same with “Haight-Ashbury” after the hippies (who wanted to take but not give to the community) came to live on the street (from points East). Or so I hear. Those who created that bohemian scene said it all changed when the runaway tourists flocked in. The free store couldn’t handle the extra “demand”.
SDCC now sells out in advance. I hear that single days are all you can buy unless you buy a year in advance. And some people wait 24 hours in line to get into a specific panel room/discussion.
The artists have left. They set up shop at another hotel, run off from the convention that in name was designed to celebrate their hobby/field.
Your opinion... and I’m ok with that
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Fair enough. Freegards.
Yeah I know - I always wanted to go but never got to get there before it got out of control, so now I just hit local midwest stuff and still have some fun and meet some folks.
If African American culture is American culture ... then drop “African” from the phrase.
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