black history

2. Afua Richardson drew the art of the fictional comic Orithya ____ featured in Lovecraft Country.
5. Showrunner of supernatural series Lovecraft Country.
7. Black-owned comic book and media company behind Icon, Static Shock, and Blood Syndicate.
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.
10. X-Men's weather goddess.
11. 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.

1. 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."
2. Object frequently thrown in George Herriman's "Krazy Kat" comic strips
3. In 1951, illustrator and artist Robert Pious painted the portrait of this Underground Railroad (s)hero, a painting that currently resides in the National Portrait Gallery.
4. Ava DuVernay will direct the film adaptation of this Jack Kirby comic for DC that features the worlds New Genesis and Apokolips.
6. "______ I'm Coming From" by Barbara Brandon-Croft is the first syndicated comic strip by a Black woman cartoonist to appear in mainstream newspapers.
9. 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.