BOSTON – This year’s annual Boston Comics in Color Festival, a free comic book convention focused around people of color, happened on April 3 and 4 at Roxbury Community College. Consisting of a cosplay contest, several panels, and many comic book creators, David F. Walker could be found tabling on the convention floor.
Well known for his writing of “Luke Cage,” a popular Black Marvel superhero, Walker was displaying his comic book “Bitter Root,” a series co-created by himself, Chuck Brown and Sanford Green, as well as his book on the history of Black film. Never having been to this specific convention, Walker found himself happy to be returning to Boston after not having been in the city for 15 years.
Another artist, Ray Felix, was representing his company, Bronx Heroes, which first started off as a gallery displaying the work of independent artists, but became its own themed comic brand. With all stories taking place in the Bronx, Felix writes and does artwork for a multitude of titles, such as “A World Without Superheroes” which follows a Vietnam veteran who gains the ability to time travel and tries to use it to end the Vietnam war, but his alcoholism leads him to mess up the timeline. Other work of his surrounding real world events includes “Black Power,” a comic that places Black Panther Party members as superheroes.
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