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\"\"John Jennings is a Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California at Riverside. Jennings is co-editor of the Eisner Award-winning collection The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of the Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art.<\/em> Jennings is also a 2016 Nasir Jones Hip Hop Studies Fellow with the Hutchins Center at Harvard University. Jennings’ current projects include the horror anthology Box of Bones<\/em>, the coffee table book Black Comix Returns<\/em> (with Damian Duffy), and the Eisner-winning, Bram Stoker Award-winning, New York Times best-selling graphic novel adaptation of Octavia Butler’s classic dark fantasy novel Kindred<\/em>. Jennings is also founder and curator of the ABRAMS Megascope line of graphic novels. Jennings recently co-adapted\u00a0Octavia Butler’s dystopian novel Parable of the Sower<\/em> into a graphic novel and also just finished a graphic novel adaptation\u00a0of Nnedi Okorafor’s\u00a0short\u00a0story “On The Road” into a book called After the Rain<\/em>. It will be the first title from the Megascope line. Jennings is also co-founder of The Schomburg Center’s Black Comic Book Day, SOL-CON: The Brown and Black Comix Expo, and The Black and Brown Comix Arts Festival in San Francisco.<\/p>\n

Find out more at https:\/\/profiles.ucr.edu\/app\/home\/profile\/johnj<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

John Jennings is a Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California at Riverside. Jennings is co-editor of the Eisner Award-winning collection The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of the Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art. Jennings is also a 2016 Nasir Jones Hip Hop Studies Fellow with the Hutchins Center at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":47,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"spay_email":""},"new_scheduled_revision":null,"save_as_revision":null,"yoast_head":"\nJohn Jennings - Capricon 41<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/capricon.org\/guests-of-honor\/john-jennings\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"John Jennings - Capricon 41\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"John Jennings is a Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California at Riverside. Jennings is co-editor of the Eisner Award-winning collection The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of the Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art. Jennings is also a 2016 Nasir Jones Hip Hop Studies Fellow with the Hutchins Center at […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/capricon.org\/guests-of-honor\/john-jennings\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Capricon 41\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/capricon.org\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-08-31T18:14:01+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/capricon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/JJHEADSHOTclose-248x300.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@CapriciousGoat\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\">\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\">\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/capricon.org\/#website\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/capricon.org\/\",\"name\":\"Capricon 39\",\"description\":\"Creating the Future We Want\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":\"http:\/\/capricon.org\/?s={search_term_string}\",\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/capricon.org\/guests-of-honor\/john-jennings\/#primaryimage\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/capricon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/JJHEADSHOTclose-248x300.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/capricon.org\/guests-of-honor\/john-jennings\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/capricon.org\/guests-of-honor\/john-jennings\/\",\"name\":\"John Jennings - Capricon 41\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/capricon.org\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/capricon.org\/guests-of-honor\/john-jennings\/#primaryimage\"},\"datePublished\":\"2020-08-27T20:09:46+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-08-31T18:14:01+00:00\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/capricon.org\/guests-of-honor\/john-jennings\/\"]}]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capricon.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1281"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capricon.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capricon.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capricon.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capricon.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1281"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/capricon.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1316,"href":"https:\/\/capricon.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1281\/revisions\/1316"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capricon.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capricon.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}