AMERICA NEEDS A HERO
A BLACK HERO
AND ROSARIUM PUBLISHING IS BRINGING ONE OF AMERICA'S FIRST HEROES BACK TO LIFE
LION MAN!
In 1947, African-American writer Orrin C. Evans, along with an all-Black creative team, debuted the groundbreaking comics anthology, All-Negro Comics, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. But when the paper manufacturer discovered that the book was a Black project, he refused to sell it. All-Negro Comics soon went out of print, and few copies have survived. Now, in an important book for our time today, Rosarium Publishing brings one of its heroes back to life: Lion Man, a United Nations scientist tasked to protect the uranium in Magic Mountain on Africa's Gold Coast.
Two-time Eisner Award-winner, John Jennings (The Blacker the Ink, Octavia Butler's Kindred), Bill Campbell (The Day the Klan Came to Town), and up-and-coming Zimbabwean author, Yvette Lisa Ndlovu (Drinking from Graveyard Wells), come together with Eisner Award-nominated artist David Brame to give you three new, remixed, reimagined tales of this legendary Black comics hero in an all-new graphic novel.
To accompany Lion Man's story, Eisner Award-winning author Damian Duffy gives us a fresh take on another classic hero "the Mystery Woman of the Jungle" . . . Fantomah! With the ability to fly, levitate and transform objects, and mutate people into other forms, Fantomah has been described by Roy Thomas and Kurt Mitchell as "simultaneously grotesque and goofy, horrific and hilarious."
"This Lion Man tale asks us to attend the fundamental truth that everyone has the right to have their story heard and told in ways that honestly and authentically speak to audiences very real wants, needs, and worlds. It offers readers an opportunity to construct visual, imaginative, narrative approaches to speak, reflect, and dream about where they are and what other possible futures might be available to them. The significance of Lion Man lies not just in the brilliant art, the sense-shattering story, and dynamic dialogue, but also in the opportunity for audiences to be inspired to consider what kinds of real worlds they wish to live in," says Michael Dando, Associate Professor at St. Cloud University.
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Rosarium Publishing is a small, independent house, publishing comics and speculative fiction focused on Brown people with an international scope. Starting with the groundbreaking Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond, Rosarium has been steadfastly “Introducing the World to Itself.” From horror to humor, from protest to celebration, Rosarium publishes a wide array of works from a wide range of places: from Uganda to Italy and Sri Lanka, from Mexico to South Africa and now the Czech Republic!
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