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SchomCom
Exhibitors Showcase
Welcome to the SchomCom Exhibitors Showcase! The Schomburg Center is pleased to continue the annual tradition of featuring the work of some of our most celebrated creatives on the comic book scene. Explore the works of these authors, illustrators, and publishers.
MIKE HAYNES-PITTS
My name is Mike Haynes-Pitts and I am the author of the Afrofuturistic cyberpunk LGBTQ+ book trilogy, The Surge Series.The trilogy follows a variety of Black LGBTQ Femmes on various journeys in Africa.I have enjoyed creating the characters that I want to see in the media. When I’m not writing or editing, I host Black LGBTQ+ events, produce videos, chat on my BrainyBlerd podcast, workout, play video games and travel.
DAVID F. WALKER
David F. Walker is an award-winning comic book writer, author, filmmaker, journalist, and educator. His work in comic books includes Shaft (Dynamite Entertainment), winner of the 2015 Glyph Award for Story of the Year, Luke Cage, Occupy Avengers, Power Man and Iron Fist, Nighthawk, Fury, Secret Wars: Battleworld (Marvel Comics), Cyborg (DC Comics), and his upcoming graphic novel, The Black Panther Party: A Graphic History. Recognized as a leading scholar expert of African-American cinema and an adjunct professor at Portland State University.
Boogie Down Books
Boogie Down Books is a bookstore-without-walls® for kids, teens, families, and educators in the Bronx and beyond. Through transformative reading experiences and inspiring community events, we push the boundaries of what a traditional children’s bookstore typically does by curating, designing, and facilitating programs and services that center young people and the grown-ups who read with them. We prioritize amplifying literature by and about members of BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and under-represented communities.
Cagen Luse
Cagen Luse is a visual artist and entrepreneur. He is the artist and author of LunchTime ComiX, (@lunchtimecomix) a comic series about life, love, family, and the issues people of color face in today's world. The Series has been published in the local Alt-weekly DIG Boston and various social media platforms. He also runs his own business, 950design, (950design.com) that produces hand-made items such as tee shirts, art prints, buttons, and note cards featuring his original art work. Cagen is also the organizer of Comics in Color monthly event series and The Boston Comics in Color Festival (comicsincolor.org) Boston’s first comic arts festival focusing on stories by and about people of color.
André LeRoy Davis
I am an artist who has visually documented the world of Hip-Hop and its entertainers for the last thirty- two years. I am a writer, journalist, graphic designer, curator and teacher with a BFA from The School of Visual Arts. I wrote and illustrated the humorous, political and poignant column, The Last Word in The Source magazine for 16 years. In 2016 I was awarded the ECBACC Pioneer Lifetime Achievement Award. My artwork has been featured in movies, books, on comic book covers and on album covers. A few venues where my work has been displayed are The Cartoon Art Museum, The Schomburg, Fullerton Museum Center and The Brooklyn Museum.