Boston Comics in Color Festival 2025

porsha olayiwola is a individual world poetry slam champion and the author of the collection i shimmer sometimes, too. olayiwola served as the third poet laureate for the city of boston. she is a 2020 academy of american poets poet laureate fellow. olayiwola is the assistant professor of poetry at emerson college. her work can be found in or forthcoming from with triquarterly magazine, black warrior review, the boston globe... Read More →

Barbara Brandon-Croft was born in Brooklyn and grew up on Long Island. After debuting her comic strip Where I’m Coming From in the Detroit Free Press in 1989, Brandon-Croft became the first Black woman cartoonist to be published nationally by a major syndicate. During its 15 year... Read More →

buttercup (they/them) is a multidisciplinary digital artist based in Baltimore, Maryland with a particular focus in illustration, sequential art, and 2D animation. Their work consists of radical, yet familiar moments of Afrodiasporic and indigenous life with a specific focus on queer... Read More →

I’m Wayne Carter a black cartoonist and a recent graduate of the center for cartoon studies. I teach comics throughout the upper valley and have a house full of pets.

Christopher Rhodes is a lecturer at Harvard and Boston University, a news and politics writer for Blavity News and Al-Jazeera, and creator of the superhero comic TEN, the story of ten people across the globe chosen to represent humanity and given amazing powers by visitors from another... Read More →