#SchomburgSyllabus: Afrofuturism & Comics

 

Black Comic Book Festival (2021), Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Schomburg Education Department, The New York Public Library

   

Jackie Ormes: The First African American Woman Cartoonist (2019) / by Nancy Goldstein (2019), Sc F 20-133, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library

 

The Last Angel of History / directed by John Akomfrah (1995), Sc Visual VRA-577, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image & Recorded Sound Division, The New York Public Library

 

Nonlinear Pendulums: Voyage Through Infinite Blackness (2020) / by 2020 Schomburg Center Teen Curators, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Schomburg Education Department, The New York Public Library   

 

On Black Panther, Afrofuturism, and Astroblackness: A Conversation with Reynaldo Anderson (March 13, 2018), Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, #Syllabus Web Archive Collection – Archive-It, The New York Public Library

 

The Wisdom of Sun Ra Collection, Sc MG 942, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library

Image: Read 'Em for Fun! Your Favorite COMICS brochure, 1955-1956. Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library. 

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