Check out this GQ article - "Collecting Black Comix: African-American Superheroes and the Luke Cage Problem" . It's a great read.
Collecting Black Comix
Wednesday, July 21, 2010 | Posted by Rebecca V. O'Neal at 10:50 AM 87 comments
Lana Kane
This time from a cartoon that hasn't even premiered yet. FX's new series Archer - premiering this Thursday - features a secret agent named Lana Kane, voiced by the very funny and talented Aisha Tyler.
Strong, voluptuous and often exasperated, Lana Kane is a star agent at ISIS as well as Sterling's former girlfriend. Lana has a penchant for adult films and is currently dating ISIS comptroller Cyril Figgis, to the mystification of her colleagues.Most people first fell for Aisha Tyler's unique brand of comedy while watching her host E!'s Emmy-winning pop culture crucible Talk Soup. As the first woman and first African-American to host the show, she instantly became a comedic cult icon.
Sunday, January 10, 2010 | Posted by Rebecca V. O'Neal at 8:27 PM 158 comments
Labels: aisha tyler, archer, cartoon, fx
ScritchandScratch.com
Make sure to check out the very talented duo at ScritchandScratch.com.
Friday, November 20, 2009 | Posted by Rebecca V. O'Neal at 5:20 AM 11 comments
Labels: artist, illustration
Negro Romance Comics - 1950
Fawcett published 3 issues of Negro Romance on a bi monthly schedule between June and October of 1950, with the second issue being reprinted by Charlton as Negro Romances # 4 dated May 1955.
Unfortunately, that is about as much as I've been able to find about the Negro Romance series. There's lots of regurgitation of the tidbits above around the internet, but no information to add. And apparently, becuase of their obscurity and rarity, the Negro Romance issues sell for hundreds of dollars each.
Tuesday, November 3, 2009 | Posted by Rebecca V. O'Neal at 5:16 PM 41 comments
Labels: 1950s, black female comic book characters, negro romance, romance
Margay & Janet Sorenson
Sunday, September 13, 2009 | Posted by Rebecca V. O'Neal at 7:03 AM 1 comments
Labels: equinox, margay janet sorenson, marvel
Orange Blossom
In doing research for this post, I learned that Strawberry Shortcake fandom is NO JOKE! It's hardcore and very intense. There's merchandise, events, life-size costumes for adults and children, offshoot comics, cartoons, DVDs, and much much more.
I happened upon this character by accident this morning. I was watching some a.m. Doctor Who (couldn't sleep), went to turn up the volume, the remote flips to Strawberry Shortcake on another channel SOMEHOW, and onto the screen pops Orange Blossom. How fortuitous!
The Strawberry Shortcake franchise has existed for almost 30 years - and my aunt, Felicia, LOVED the series, even going as far to insist on being called Strawberry Shortcake as a child. Strawberry Shortcake is an institution and the fandom is EVERYWHERE.
On to Orange Blossom. There are two iterations of this character - the first in the cartoon that premiered in the 1980s - the second in the 2003 reboot of the program. In the 1980s version, Orange Blossom is an urban artist from what I assume is NYC (in the show referred to as Big Apple City - and the show is filled with names like that. The characters live in places like Strawberry Land, Cookie Corners, and Huckleberry Briar. It's all very twee.), with a pet butterfly named Marmalade. In the 2003 series, she lives in Orange Blossom Acres in an orange tree shaped house.
Posted by Rebecca V. O'Neal at 5:57 AM 6 comments
Labels: cartoon, orange blossom, strawberry shortcake, television
Moonday
Sandra "Moonday" Hawke briefly dated Oliver Queen, the first Green Arrow. Their tryst led to a pregnancy and the birth of Connor Hawke, who often acted as Green Arrow in his father's absence. Sandra is the daughter of a Korean war veteran and farmer, Nathan Hawke. Because of several misunderstandings and his interpreting her wanting a more serious relationship as a ploy to get money, Oliver and Sandra's love life was often tempestuous. Moonday later remarried a man named Milo Armitage, an arms dealer she, rather than divorcing, decide to abandon in Africa... She also happens to be a half-Korean, former hippie, model, and actress.
Friday, September 4, 2009 | Posted by Rebecca V. O'Neal at 11:42 PM 2 comments
Labels: black female comic book characters, connor hawke, dc, green arrow, moonday, sarah hawke