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- 2. Object frequently thrown in George Herriman's "Krazy Kat" comic strips
- 5. Elmer Stoner historical promo comic on John Henry, who competed against steam-powered drill.
- 8. Nonprofit Fellowship of Reconciliation distributed a comic in 1957 about this city's 1955 bus boycott and featuring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rosa Parks.
- 9. "______ I'm Coming From" by Barbara Brandon-Croft is the first syndicated comic strip by a Black woman cartoonist to appear in mainstream newspapers.
- 11. Ava DuVernay will direct the film adaptation of this Jack Kirby comic for DC that features the worlds New Genesis and Apokolips.
- 12. Afua Richardson drew the art of the fictional comic Orithya ____ featured in Lovecraft Country.
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- 1. Showrunner of supernatural series Lovecraft Country.
- 3. Black-owned comic book and media company behind Icon, Static Shock, and Blood Syndicate.
- 4. In 1948, cartoonist Alvin Hollingsworth published a comic book about the rise of this iconic singer, Civil Rights activist, and star of the musical film classic Stormy Weather.
- 6. X-Men's weather goddess.
- 7. Daisy L. Scott is the first known Black woman cartoonist whose editorial cartoons appeared from 1920–1921 in this Oklahoma city's Black-owned newspaper until the newspaper's building was burned down during the city's race massacre.
- 10. Harlem Renaissance poet Langston ________ called Brumsic Brandon, Jr.'s self-published "Some of My Best Friends," a 24-page book of social commentary cartoons, "the MOST."