![]() ![]() ![]() Jennings is both teacher and student of comics’ powerful lessons, and lucky for listeners, his course comes with an illustrated syllabus, aka illabus. ![]() Given that Jennings has just entered the Marvel Universe with the debut of Silver Surfer: Ghost Light, the timing is right to reflect on the pressures and pleasures of adapting beloved stories for a contemporary audience. In this conversation with critic, translator, and teacher of a creative course on the art of making comics, Jean-Christophe Cloutier, Jennings explores how he makes those decisions that range from the design of endpapers to selecting a character’s skin tone with the ultimate aim of championing Black culture and Black comics. John Jennings-Hugo Award winner, New York Times bestselling author, curator, scholar, and Artist-is keenly aware that in adapting novels for the graphic format, his decisions turn what has only been imagined into facts drawn on the page. ![]()
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