“[You] get to see images that look like us ... A lot of the other cons, you don’t see a lot of Black art and Black characters,” said an attendee at the 22nd annual East Coast Black Age of Comics Convention in Philadelphia last weekend.
Lynne Marie Finley became fascinated by comic book heroes when she was young. Luke Cage and Misty Night, two of Marvel’s first Black superheroes that came after Black Panther in the 70s, first grabbed her attention. But when Finley, now 47, first saw Storm from theWhen Finley came from her home in Maryland to Philadelphia last weekend for the 22nd Annual East Coast Black Age of Comics Convention, there was only one character for her to dress up as.
In 1988, as Yumy Odom first arrived in Philadelphia, he noticed that the comic book creator and fan community here was not very connected. “I don’t think that [people] knew they had that many creators in this one city,” he said.X-Menand other comics to read while he was hospitalized with an arm injury, and he’s been dedicated to them ever since.
The best-known comic convention is San Diego’s Comic-Con, which attracts attendees from around the world and pulls inof dollars of revenue. But Odom says that while ECBACC operates on a much smaller scale, its impact on the Black comic community is just as great. He is proud of the people who have worked with and received EBACC awards. “We have folks who are now at Disney, they’re at BET, they’re all over the place. They’re at Marvel and they’re at DC [Comics].”
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