Mora Beauchamp-Byrd

May 20, 2024 | comicsbeat.com | Arpad Okay |Mora Beauchamp-Byrd

Critical Thinking is a new column that analyzes academic writing about comics.

Mar 18, 2024 | bombmagazine.org | Mora Beauchamp-Byrd

Ron Bechet is known for intimate, large-scale drawings and paintings inspired by his quotidian observations of nature and human experience. This oral history project created a space for Bechet to acknowledge the other role he is known for, a bridge builder. In this conversation with art historian and curator Dr. Mora J.

Nov 30, 2023 | bombmagazine.org | Mora Beauchamp-Byrd

BOMB 166 Winter 2024 BUY THE ISSUEInterviewsART: Dineo Seshee Bopape by Zoë HopkinsART: Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki Olivo) by Jane Ursula HarrisLITERATURE: Ed Park by David GordonMUSIC: Anthony Davis and Thulani DavisART: Alteronce Gumby by Leonardo DrewORAL HISTORY PROJECT: jina valentine by Kelly LloydORAL HISTORY PROJECT: Ron Bechet by Mora J.

Jul 28, 2023 | downthetubes.net | John Freeman |Mora Beauchamp-Byrd |Qiana Whitted |Ian Gordon

Recently published by Rutgers University Press is Desegregating Comics – Debating Blackness in the Golden Age of American Comics, edited by Qiana Whitted. Some comics fans view the American comic industry’s Golden Age (1930s-1950s) as a challenging time when it comes to representations of race, an era when the few Black characters appeared as brutal savages, devious witch doctors, or unintelligible minstrels.