Jerry Craft Archives

Jerry Craft, creator of the middle-grade graphic novels New Kid – the first graphic novel to win the Newbery Awards and Class Act has seen a speaking engagement withdrawn and his comic books pulled from a number of libraries after outrage was expressed by a group of parents part of the Katy Independent School District,[...]

The festival is presented by the Schomburg's Junior Scholars Program and co-produced by artists Jerry Craft and John Jennings. Andre LeRoy Davis Delia Gable For decades, black people have had to deal with disgusting, negative, stereotypical depictions of themselves This was not only in films, but in comics and cartoons as well Fortunately, many more are at least[...]