Black History Month Archives

For Black History Month, Marvel Comics and Lucasfilm will once again spotlight Black Star Wars characters on comics out in February 2025, from Karen S Darboe, Ken Lashley, Mateus Manhanini, and Ernanda Souza, with takes on characters from Star Wars: The Acolyte and Star Wars Outlaws, with some characters making their first-ever comic book appearance[...]

Storm: Lifedream is published on the 29th of January ahead of Black History Month, and fifty years of her creation by Len Wein and Dave Cockrum It will contain all-new stories by Black comic book writers and artists, including Angélique Roché, John Jennings, Curtis Baxter, Brittney Morris, Karen S Darboe, Edwin Galmon and more, with[...]

DC Comics has revealed the full creative breakdown for the Black History Month-themed anthology DC Power for 2024, on sale on the 30th of January Including an introduction from Cyborg writer Morgan Hampton, and a new variant cover by DC and Milestone artist and co-founder Denys Cowan. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-1 img[...]

And today, published to coincide with Black History month, Marvel Comics is publishing Bishop: War College #1, set in the mutant island of Krakoa with training a new young defence force for the island, featuring mutants from across the X-Men titles And also bringing in literal Nazis as the bad guys making their way onto[...]

So what better time than Black History Month for such a project to get some traction – and maybe an English Language publisher? Or French, German, Portuguese, Korean, Japanese or more? If you are interested, get in touch with Colleen Douglas, right here. John Jennings is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of[...]

Also starting today for Black History Month, Disney+ will be adding new sets to their existing Celebrate Black Stories collection and introducing the Black History collection, which will attempt to "dig deeper into the powerful history of Black artists, athletes, and creators across film, music, culture and beyond" while the Celebrate Black Stories collection will[...]

For Black History Month You can see what they did there. DC Comics Publishes Milestones In History For Black History Month Milestones In History Celebrate Black History Month the Milestone way, as the superpowered citizens of Dakota (including Static, Icon, Rocket, Hardware, and more) narrate the true stories of Black trailblazers from across human history! Witness the military[...]

Starting this week, all players in the game will notice a new item after the latest update as they now have access to a free cosmetic t-shirt designed by artist Ty Ferrell, which has automatically been added to their character closet for Black History Month What's more, the shirt is now also on sale in[...]

Back in August, as part of DC Fandome, DC Comics announced that they would be relaunching the Milestone Media publisher line, after many delays in February 2021, for Black History Month A few of us were looking at our watches this month wondering what was up? Milestone Comics Well, DC Comics has now announced that they will[...]

Davis was the lead creator on Static at Milestone and wrote the bible for the character. However, in recent months, DC Comics has been more willing to mention Michael Davis in passing, such as at DC Fandome, and we noticed what seemed to be more of a rapprochement as certain employees left DC Comics, and the[...]

Image Comics is celebrating Black History Month with a new line of variant covers for the series Rumble as envisioned by John Arcudi, kicking off the new story arc with Arcudi and David Rubín's Rumble #11 Artists on the variant covers will be Keith Pollard, Arvell Jones, Ron Wilson, Chris Brunner, and Sanford Greene. In the press release, Arcudi[...]

Following last night's SAG AFTRA Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture award win, Marvel Studios Black Panther will be returning to theaters next month. This choice makes sense- on the heels of the landmark (and history-making) Best Picture nomination for the film, as well as February being Black History Month. Oscar Best-Picture Nominee #BlackPanther returns to[...]

With Black History Month bringing back in the incredible hashtag #28DaysofBlackCosplay, we here at Bleeding Cool are taking the time to highlight some of our favorite cosplayers! Starting us off we have Erik Slade Harris, AKA Casual Assassin Cosplay. Photo Credit: Felix Wong Photography BC: How long have you been cosplaying? What made you interested in cosplaying? Harris:[...]

On the last of #BlackComicsMonth - they get an extra day this year thanks to the mysteries of cosmology - we have eleven free comic books, by black

But, as Black History Month comes to us in February, it looks like Marvel Comics will have writers Darryl McDaniels on Guardians Of Infinity, David Walker on Power Man And Iron Fist with Sanford Greene, and Ta-Nehisi Coates on Black Panther. And those are just the ones we know about. We're also waiting on news regarding which ongoing title Afua[...]

Throughout the month of February, Aspen Comics will be celebrating Black History Month by pointing the spotlight on Black creators with whom they've collaborated This will occur three times a week on their website, Facebook, Tumblr, and Instagram, along with the creator's picture Put together by Fathom: Sourcebook writer Tabu, there will be a showcases[...]

In Pittsburgh there is a Black History Month exhibit that is focusing on early black comic creators that broke the color barrier in the 1930s and 1940s Entitled Beyond The Funny Pages, the exhibit runs through the end of February at the City/County building It showcases the work of Matt Baker, the first black man to work[...]