Drawing Marvel: Representation in Pop Culture

Resources recommended by panel participants Pablo Leon (illustrator, Miles Morales: Shock Waves), Eric Wilkerson (cover artist, Shuri: A Black Panther Novel), and Keith Chow (founder of The Nerds of Color and Hard NOC Media).

Books for Artists • Before Ever After: The Lost Lectures of Walt Disney’s Animation Studio by Don Hahn and Tracey Miller-Zarneke • Bridgman’s Complete Guide to Drawing From Life (Fifth Edition) by George B. Bridgman • Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter (Volume 2) by James Gurney • Creative Illustration by Andrew Loomis • Dream Worlds: Production Design for Animation by Hans Bacher • Framed Ink: Drawing and Composition for Visual Storytellers by Marcos Mateu-Mestre • Graphic L.A. by Robh Ruppel • Imaginative Realism: How to Paint What Doesn’t Exist (Volume 1) by James Gurney • The Noble Approach: Maurice Noble and the Zen of Animation Design by Tod Polson • Vision: Color and Composition for Film by Hans P. Bacher and Sanatan Suryavanshi

Graphic Novels for Younger Readers • Astro Boy manga by Osamu Tezuka • Green Lantern comic by Geoff Johns • Illegal: A Graphic Novel Telling One Boy’s Epic Journey to Europe by Andrew Donkin and Eoin Colfer • Miles Morales: Shock Waves by Justin A. Reynolds and Pablo Leon • Shuri: A Black Panther Novel by Nic Stone • Superman Smashes the Klan comic by Gene Luen Yang, Gurihiru, and Janice Chiang • Zatanna and the House of Secrets by Matthew Cody and Yoshi Yoshitani

Graphic Novels for Older Readers • All-New Ghost Rider comic by Felipe Smith and Tradd Moore • Anya’s Ghost by Vera Brosgol • Beautiful Darkness by Fabien Vehlmann and Kerascoët • Beauty by Hubert and Kerascoët • Cage! comic by Genndy Tartakovsky • Fullmetal Alchemist manga by Hiromu Arakawa • March Trilogy by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell • Maus by Art Spiegelman • Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi • Pluto manga by Naoki Urasawa Continued on second page Drawing Marvel: Representation in Pop Culture Further Reading (CONTINUED)

Graphic Novels for Older Readers (continued) • Saint Seiya: Knights of the Zodiac manga by Masami Kurumada • Silver Surfer: Black comic by Donny Cates and Tradd Moore • Spider-Men comic by Brian Michael Bendis and Sara Pichelli • Speak: The Graphic Novel by Laurie Halse Anderson and Emily Carroll • They Called Us Enemy by George Takei, Justin Eisinger, and Steven Scott • 20th Century Boys manga by Naoki Urasawa

Educator Resources • Scholastic Guide to Using Graphic Novels in the Classroom • Teach Graphix Week

Film and Video • Black Panther (2018) • The Breadwinner (2017) • The Book of Life (2014) • Fantasy Artists of Color episode featuring Eric Wilkerson • Funan (2018) • The Man with No Name trilogy (1964-66) • Once upon a Time in the West (1968) • Persepolis (2007) • Persistence of Vision (2012) • Shuri Cover Detail Time-Lapse • Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)

Websites and Articles • Eric Wilkerson Website ericwilkersonart.com • Graphix Catalog of All Titles • Hard NOC Life Podcast hardnocmedia.com/hardnoclife • The Long & Complicated Production of The Thief & The Cobbler • The Nerds of Color thenerdsofcolor.org • Pablo Leon Website artsypabster.com

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Updated 11/11/2020