Joel Christian Gill Archives

The Legend of the Chainbreaker is a new graphic novel by cartoonist, professor, and historian Joel Christian Gill, author of the graphic memoir Fights and the Strange Fruit and Talented Tenth graphic novels, described as "a classic superhero tale inspired by the story of Nat Turner and set in a 1940s alternate America where, following the Emancipation War, Black people control[...]

The spotlight is on Joel Christian Gill for The Black Caucus of the American Library Association's 9th National Conference of African American Librarians (‪#‎NCAAL9.) They will host an exciting lineup of graphic novelists, including Gill. He will be joining Max Brooks (Harlem Hellfighters) and Eric Dean Seaton (Legend of the Mantamaji) to discuss graphic novels and[...]