This program is in partnership with the African-American History and Cultural Events Committee (AAHCE) and the University of South Carolina African-American Studies Program.An enslaved sailor successfully commandeers a Confederate ship and sails it to freedom. She is also the editor of Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society and chair of the International Comic Arts Forum. Professor Whitted is currently editing a collection of essays on blackness in early American comics. Many of her published essays explore race, genre, and identity in comics representations of historical figures such as Nat Turner, Stagger Lee, and Emmett Till. She is the author of the Eisner Award-winning book, EC Comics: Race, Shock, and Social Protest and co-editor of the collection on Comics and the U.S.
A graduate of Hampton University with a PhD from Yale University, her research and teaching focus on Black literary and cultural studies, and American comics and graphic novels. Qiana Whitted is professor of English and African American Studies at the University of South Carolina. Joel Christian Gill shows how ordinary people fight for our collective liberation and whose stories are not often at the forefront of our historical consciousness." -Ibram X. Du Bois, that everyday Black people stand under the sun, with bravery and courage, to represent us. "Tales of the Talented Tenth is a testament, in the words of W. Gill is currently working on the graphic novel adaptation of Dr. Ibram X Kendi's Stamped from the Beginning: A Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America. Gill is also Associate Professor of Illustration at Massachusetts College of Art & Design and is originally from Roanoke, Virginia. His latest graphic novel is Robert Smalls: Tales of the Talented Tenth #3 which focuses on the true story of the enslaved South Carolinian who emancipated himself and his family by pulling off one of the most daring and largest heists of the Civil War. 1-2), Fast Enough: Bessie Stringfield’s First Ride, and the graphic memoir, Fights: One Boys Triumph Over Violence. Joel Christian Gill is a cartoonist, historian, and educator who has written and drawn several graphic novels about African American history and culture, including the Tales of the Talented Tenth series, Strange Fruit: Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History (Vols.
In celebration of Robert Smalls and the stealing of the C.S.S. Planter during the Civil War, join us for An Evening with Cartoonist Joel Christian Gill as he discusses the graphic novel, Robert Smalls in his Tales of the Talented Tenth series.
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