Comic Arts Against Erasure

Description

Comic Arts Against Erasure is a new publication of the Black & Brown Comix Arts Festival that highlights three comic offerings. Hugo Award-winning artist and writer duo John Jennings and Damian Duffy come together with Jennings's Black Kirby partner Stacey Robinson in the comic book, Tracks to Freedom , featuring the Jennings-Robinson character Kid Code . City on Fire highlights four stories from the 1871 Chicago Fire, featuring the story of Joseph and Anna Elizabeth Hudlin , the African American husband and wife who helped to save the city. And, critically acclaimed artist and illustrator David Brame brings the story of Florence Fightingale to the world, as she battles hate groups and white supremacists in the battle for social justice and equity. The Black & Brown Comix Arts Festival (BCAF) celebrates the creativity people of color in the comic arts and popular visual culture and is dedicated to the notion that all audiences deserve to be subject in the culture in which we participate. BCAF is a festival of the Northern California Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Foundation. Its events include expos, kids activities, film screenings, panels and conversations, cosplay events and much more.Since its founding, BCAF has been a free event and open to the public. In 2015, in partnership with the San Francisco Public Library, USA Today readers and editors chose BCAF as one of America’s Ten Best art festivals.