A few months ago, he e-mailed me, saying he had a crazy idea. We did a reading together at 826 Boston during the AWP conference a few years back and he remembered the story I wrote. Roxane Gay: Ta-Nehisi and I have been acquainted over the years. How did Coates bring you on board to write World of Wakanda? We’re happy that we get to share this with you.īlack Nerd Problems: Needless to say, we’re big fans around here of the work Coates and Stelfreeze on Black Panther. We talked comics and Marvel, the Dora Milaje, and dream projects. Gay is new to comics but brings with her a significant writing resume, with novels ( An Untamed State), essays ( Bad Feminist), and op/ed columns to her name. We were lucky enough to steal a few minutes with Roxane Gay, one of the authors for the new series. This is a first all around and worthy of all the excitement it has generated around the Internet. World of Wakanda is going to be written by two Black women authors and drawn by two Black women artists. Among them, Marvel’s new The World of Wakanda, the new companion series to the current record-breaking Black Panther run. San Diego Comic Con, in what is now a great mid-summer tradition, dropped some great announcements this past weekend.
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