{"id":16743,"date":"2008-12-21T12:15:53","date_gmt":"2008-12-21T17:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=16743"},"modified":"2014-12-10T18:09:22","modified_gmt":"2014-12-10T23:09:22","slug":"blomicon-2008-the-black-comic-con-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/21\/blomicon-2008-the-black-comic-con-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Blomicon 2008: The Black Comic Con & More"},"content":{"rendered":"

I ran across two stories this week dealing with African-American comic-book creators, one meant to make me laugh, the other designed to tug at my heartstrings. The piece that wanted to move me succeeded, the other … not so much.<\/p>\n

The supposedly funny skit appeared as part of the Chocolate News<\/i> TV series on Comedy Central<\/a>. I’m a big fan of David Alan Grier, and have been ever since In Living Color<\/i>. I like him still. Only what I tend to enjoy most about the new series is the personality he lets shine through during his monologues, rather than the skits, which can be hit and miss.<\/p>\n

The bit on Blomicon 2008, The Black Comic Con, was one of those misses. It could have been funnier. It should<\/i> have been funnier. Here it is for those of you who might not have caught it when it aired. Maybe you’ll find it funnier than I did.<\/p>\n


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Then there’s the recent Washington Post<\/i> article, “Comic Book Hero”<\/a> written by David Rowell, which follows Andre Campbell as he navigates the 15th Annual Pittsburgh Comic Con. Campbell is a legally blind artist who has created more than 500 characters and hopes to someday make it as a comic-book creator. I wish him well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I ran across two stories this week dealing with African-American comic-book creators, one meant to make me laugh, the other designed to tug at my heartstrings. The piece that wanted to move me succeeded, the other … not so much. The supposedly funny skit appeared as part of the Chocolate News TV series on Comedy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-16743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16744,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16743\/revisions\/16744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}