Articles by Donna-Lyn Washington

Anansi in African, Caribbean and Black American folklore is considered a god of storytellers and wisdom. He weaves tales and has many children who see […]

There are few things as certain as change or fire. Scorched earth, the shifting of things we think we know are one of the few […]

In one of the covers of issue seven of ‘Bitter Root’ Berg carries an ethnopunk blaster. The steampunk looking gun with healing bullets coupled with […]

Harriet Tubman is a Black superhero. Her stance on the various covers of issue four of ‘Harriet Tubman: Demon Slayer’ of being fed up, tired, […]

The graphic novel adaptation of ‘Kindred’ from John Jennings and Damian Duffy holds visual key points and connections to the past in a myriad of […]

If you look on the cover of issue two of ‘The Gentleman’ where there’s the ‘M’ you’ll see a well dressed man in a top […]

Families are a complicated thing. Poquita the young woman who’s been abused by the parents who stole her as a baby from a detention center, […]

There’s nothing like a comic book cover to pull you in. Issue four of Rai has him full-frontal ready to tackle on whatever anyone has […]

Everyone has that certain someone in their office that seems to relish in causing chaos. For the IT team in ‘Adventures of a System Admin’ […]

The first thing you notice about the graphic novel adaptation of Octavia E. Butler’s ‘Parable of the Sower’ by John Jennings and Damian Duffy is […]

People rarely live in the present. Either they are reliving the past in a variety of ways or figuring out what’s the next thing or […]