Mandatory negative notation: We keep the flow. Screen it, trash it. Too much foraging for “trade and display” on company time.

“Can you remember the first time you saw yourselves represented in comics and can you describe that experience?” This was a question that moderator Valentino Zullo brought up during our Comics Represent panel hosted by Lake Erie Ink’s Kids Comic Con. My answer is that I never felt represented in the comics I read as a child. My skin color was never a trait in the characters I adored. There were the few and far between characters: We had Shang-Chi starring in Deadly Hands of