Thu, Mar 02
|Seattle convention center
SEATTLE - EMERALD CITY COMIC CON
This is the third biggest comics convention in the United States. I'll be doing two panels. Find me in the artist alley.
Time & Location
Mar 02, 2023, 10:00 AM – Mar 05, 2023, 5:00 PM
Seattle convention center, 705 Pike St, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
About the event
www.emeraldcitycomiccon.com
Find me in the Artist Alley all weekend.
PANEL 1.
Black MoshPit: How AfroPunk went mainstream.
Description.
In this exciting 40 min slide show, James Spooner, creator of AfroPunk and writer Illustrator of the Graphic Novel "The High Desert: Black Punk Nowhere" tells the story of how he turned his small DIY documentary from underground cult status into an international mainstream festival touting 100,000 attendees a year. He'll discuss the origins story of the film, the early events and the moments when he sold out his punk morals to bring in a larger audience. Finally he'll discuss his breaking point when he left the company, what the expected underground reaction has been and what he is doing now in comics. This is a capitalist cautionary tale.