“This election was one of immense historical importance, less in my mind because of race than it being a sea change of values and priorities about what Americans want their country to stand for, and a break from a dirty century of secretive politics and a desire for openness in Washington… We finally have someone [...]
The forthcoming graphic novel 08, about the presidential election race between Barack Obama and John McCain, will be available the 27th. You can sample it here. Dan Goldman was the co-writer, along with his brother Steven, of the GN Everyman: Be the People, which chronicled the rise to power of a fictitious black president, so [...]
“…According to the Associated Press, NAACP president Benjamin Jealous called Delonas’ cartoon ‘an invitation to assassination [of President Barack Obama]‘ and called for ’serious disciplinary action’ against the Post, including the firing of the cartoonist and editor Col Allen. While many in our profession have questioned the efficacy of Delonas’ cartoon and the judgment of [...]
“Honestly, I had – and still have – a bit of apprehension that this was/is a story involving one of the most popular Presidents since John Kennedy… But, Joe Rybandt, my editor at Dynamite Entertainment, expressed confidence that I could tell a good story using our current president in the AoD universe; one that was [...]
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