Ariell Johnson checks out a customer at the cash register as patrons browse her store's collection of comic books. The 33-year-old is the owner of Amalgam Comics and Coffeehouse in Philadelphia. You might say Johnson is a superhero herself. She's the first black woman on the East Coast to own and operate a comic book store. The comic book world tends to skew heavily towards … [Read more...] about Meet the East Coast’s first black female comic book store owner
Comic Books
“Martin Luther King, Jr.: Voice for Equality!” by James Buckley, Jr. and YouNeek Studios
The heroes in comic books arrive in fancy costumes. Their heads are ringed by bubbles that say things like “POW!” and “ZOOM!” and that’s when bad guys fall like dead twigs from a tree. BAM! All the heroes in comic books are super-powerful and mighty but here’s the thing: as you’ll see in the new book “Martin Luther King, Jr.: Voice for Equality!” by James Buckley, Jr. and … [Read more...] about “Martin Luther King, Jr.: Voice for Equality!” by James Buckley, Jr. and YouNeek Studios