John Jennings

JOHN JENNINGS is an Associate Professor of Art and Visual Studies at the University at Buffalo-State University of New York. His work centers around intersectional narratives regarding identity politics and popular media. Jennings is co-editor of the Eisner Award nominated collection The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art and co-founder/organizer of The Schomburg Center’s Black Comic Book Festival in Harlem. He is co-founder and organizer of the MLK NorCal’s Black Comix Arts Festival in San Francisco and also SOL-CON: The Brown and Black Comix Expo at the Ohio State University. Jennings is currently a Nasir Jones Hip Hop Studies Fellow with the Hutchins Center at Harvard University. Jennings’ proyectos cómics actuales incluyen el Código de Hiphop cómica aventura Kid: Channel Zero, la historia noir crimen sobrenatural mano azul Mojo, y la próxima adaptación de la novela gráfica de la novela clásica de fantasía oscura de Octavia Butler, Vástagos.