<p>What does it mean to illustrate an extraordinary Black girl's ordinary coming-of-age? In this episode we talk to Robyn Smith, the Jamaican cartoonist &amp; illustrator of DC Comics' Nubia: Real One, Black Josei Press' Wash Day, and her own mini-comic The Saddest Angriest Black Girl in Town, about her journey to working on comics and the power of showing the everyday moments of growing up Black.</p>

Dreaming In The Dark

Bezi Yohannes & Ravynn K. Stringfield

Comics and the Power of Ordinary Blackness

APR 1, 202234 MIN
Dreaming In The Dark

Comics and the Power of Ordinary Blackness

APR 1, 202234 MIN

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<p>What does it mean to illustrate an extraordinary Black girl's ordinary coming-of-age? In this episode we talk to Robyn Smith, the Jamaican cartoonist &amp; illustrator of DC Comics' Nubia: Real One, Black Josei Press' Wash Day, and her own mini-comic The Saddest Angriest Black Girl in Town, about her journey to working on comics and the power of showing the everyday moments of growing up Black.</p>