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"If You're Not Sure, Ask": How To Write Characters Of Color
"If You're Not Sure, Ask": How To Write Characters Of Color
"If You're Not Sure, Ask": How To Write Characters Of Color
In late August, writer Gene Luen Yang posed a challenge to his peers in the world of comics: Write characters who are different from you, racially and culturally, even if it's scary. That can be tough to do without being insulting, or tone-deaf, or resorting to stereotypes. What can really help for writers is input from people of the races and cultures that they hope to depict; people who can gauge whether a work has the right level of sensitivity and understanding. Luckily, a whole bunch of cartoonists have come together to offer up advice in a post on Midnight Breakfast titled "Writing People of Color (if you happen to be a person of another color)." It's chock full of insight.
Superhero Poetry Anthology Accepting Submissions
Superhero Poetry Anthology Accepting Submissions
Superhero Poetry Anthology Accepting Submissions
While poetry doesn't often crossover to comics -- save the occasional Neil Gaiman epigraph -- there are a few exceptions. Like the anthology that editors Andrea Reid and Maya Jewell Zellerare currently compiling titled "Between Saviors and Villains: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry Inspired by American Superheroes," and you can submit between 3-6 poems to them for consideration... Rea