Black Kirby, “Night Boy”, July 26-September 7, 2019

Exhibition Catalogue, Stacey Robinson and Black Kirby

Black Kirby’s exhibition, “Night Boy,” is the latest collaboration of Stacey Robinson and John Jennings. “Night Boy” is a graphic novel that tells the story of a 15-year-old victim of police brutality. Night Boy finds himself a pawn in a supernatural power struggle, but overcomes many obstacles to become the guardian of the City of Light. Along with the story by Damian Duffy, the artwork will be pitched to potential publishers and will hopefully join Black Kirby’s other publications including “I Am Alfonso Jones,” “Prison Industrial Complex for Beginners,” and “Black Kirby Presents: In Search of…Motherboxx Connections” on bookshelves internationally.

John Jennings and Stacey Robinson are the collaborative duo Black Kirby. John Jennings is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies and a Cooperating Faculty Member in the Department of Creative Writing at the University of California, Riverside. Jennings is co-editor of the Eisner Award-winning essay collection The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art and co-founder/organizer of The Schomburg Center’s Black Comic Book Festival in Harlem. He is co-founder and organizer of the MLK NorCal’s Black Comix Arts Festival in San Francisco and also SOL-CON: The Brown and Black Comix Expo at the Ohio State University. Jennings sits on the editorial advisory boards for The Black Scholar and the new Ohio State Press imprint New Suns: Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Speculative. He is currently the Nasir Jones Hiphop Fellow at the Hutchins Center, Harvard University.