COMIC TIME: THOR #10

Odin is ruling over a empty kingdom, Loki is still playing games, Thor needs more hammers. Malekith is about to take over all the realms in two months. Yes!! The War of The Realms will start in two months are you ready?

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I WANT MORE MEAD!

I need more Hammers!

Me And My Body Monthly Drawing Project

Where have you been? You have been missing out on my monthly self-portrait, but lucky for you i’ll post all the images you missed.

Soul of a Nation @ The Brooklyn Museum

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STOP! You need to take a day trip to the Brooklyn Museum and check out the Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power exhibition before February 3rd. There are over 150 works of art from Black American artists, like Barkley Hendricks and Emma Amos. This exhibition is two floors of soul, pain, joy, and pride that will feed your spirit in ways you will not understand right away. Now, stop reading this and go to the Brooklyn Museum ASAP!

Classic Superheroes

I created some paintings of my favorite superheroes like Power Man, Storm, Falcon, Black Lightning, and many more in their classic costumes. Its acrylic paint on postcard size canvas.

What is Negrophilia??

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The word negrophilia is derived from the French négrophilie that means love of the negro. It was a term that avant-garde artists used amongst themselves to describe their passion for black culture. During 1920-1930s Paris, negrophilia was a craze when to collect African art, to listen to jazz, and to dance the Charleston, the Lindy Hop or the Black Bottom, were signs of being modern and fashionable. Sources of inspiration were inanimate African art objects (l'art nègre) that found their way into Paris as a result of colonial trade with Africa as well as live performances by African-Americans, many of whom were ex-soldiers remaining in European cities after World War I, who turned to entertainment for a source of income. Perhaps the most popular revue and entertainer during this time was La Revue Nègre (1925) starring Josephine Baker.

This interest in exotic cultures had already been established within France due to the regular expositions the country held to showcase the objects and people of the French colonies. The fascination with specifically black culture and the "primitivised" existence associated with it flourished in the combined aftermath of the First World War (1914–1918) and the 1931 Colonial Exposition when artists yearned for a simpler, idyllic lifestyle to counter modern life's mechanistic violence. Avant-garde artists recognised for their negrophilia interests include poet Guillaume Apollinaire, artists Tzara, Man Ray, Paul Colin, surrealists George Bataille and Michel Leiris, and political activist Nancy Cunard.

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THE COLOR OF ART

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Murry DePillars: art spans themes from ancestral Africa, the period of American slavery, and more recent historical events including the Civil Rights Movement, as well as contemporary cultural traditions.

DePillars was a longtime member of AfriCOBRA (African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists) an organization with the mission to explore and define the Black visual aesthetic. DePillars, a longtime Richmond resident, passed away in 2008.

Some of his early works include detailed line drawings and imagery of civil rights episodes from the 1960s. The pivotal Aunt Jemima work transforms an image regarding Aunt Jemima on the pancake and waffle package, but also commemorates the protest by John Carlos and Tommy Smith at the Mexico City Olympics.

The stars behind the Aunt Jemima, upon closer inspection, are police badges.  Mrs. Mary DePillars, DePillars’ wife, explained that the art was created following the violent summer of 1968, and the badge symbols were a direct response to the raid of the Black Panther headquarters.

TODAY'S BLACK HISTORY SPOTLIGHT...

CLARENCE MATTHEW BAKER (December 10, 1921 – August 11, 1959) was an American comic book artist who drew the costumed crimefighter Phantom Lady, among many other characters. Active in the 1940s and 1950s Golden Age of comic books, he is the first known African-American artist to find success in the comic-book industry. He also penciled an early form of graphic novel, St. John Publications' digest-sized "picture novel" It Rhymes with Lust (1950).

Baker was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2009.

Today's Black History Spotlight...

JANE MATILDA BOLIN LL.B. was the first African-American woman to graduate from Yale Law School, the first to join the New York City Bar Association, and the first to join the New York City Law Department. She became the first black woman to serve as a judge in the United States when she was sworn into the bench of the New York City Domestic Relations Court in 193

Today's Black History Spotlight...

MAXIE CLEVELAND "MAX" ROBINSON, JR. was an American broadcast journalist, and ABC News World News Tonight co-anchor. He was the first African-American broadcast network news anchor in the United States and one of the first television journalists to die of AIDS. He was a founder of the National Association of Black Journalists.

Black History Month Spotlight

Morris Nolton "Morrie" Turner (December 11, 1923 – January 25, 2014) was an Americancartoonist, creator of the strip Wee Pals, the first American syndicated strip with an integrated cast of characters.