Ajuan Mance
Artist, Writer, Professor of Illustration at California College of the Arts, Professor Emeritus of African American literature at Mills College. Picture book WHAT DO BROTHAS DO ALL DAY? is out now. https://www.ajuanmance.com #comics 🖤🏳️🌈
- Brandon Bradshaw just might be the Keith Haring of Sioux City, Iowa: ca.news.yahoo.com/town-rallies...
- In 1989, I saw an exhibition of Rockwell’s civil rights paintings. I knew his work very well, but I had never seen most of these paintings. I stand with his family. This is a misuse of his work. Norman Rockwell’s Family Condemns Homeland Security’s Use of His Work www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/a...
- Please support this wonderful bookstore. The staff is kind and knowledgeable, the selections are well curated, and their children’s book section is a delightful, which is not a word I often use. I did an event there in 2024, and they made me feel like a part of their local reading community!
@loyaltybooks.bsky.social is a fantastic store with a great team & they could really use your support right now. Paralyzed by choice? They offer curated book bundles & a "Leap of Faith" subscription box. loyaltybookstores.com/LEAPOFFAITH
- My newest piece is an homage to coffee culture and cafe goers everywhere! It’s an 18” x 24” print that I’m releasing in a limited edition of 250. There are 90 different figures in the drawing, drinking everything from iced coffee to matcha lattes. This labor of love took about 90 hours to create.
- I’ll have prints at the upcoming SF Zine Fest. Hope to see you there!
- I had such a good time at the South Berkeley Public Library Zine Fest that I only managed to take one picture, of this cool sign by artist and festival organizer Avy Jetter! Thank you, Avy, for this wonderful event! See you next week at SF Zine Fest!
- It was a wonderful day at the inaugural South Berkeley Public Library Zine Fest! Now, onto the SF Zine Fest next Sunday!
- What a thrill and an honor to be part of the program of readings and panels at the Schomburg's 100th. From the parade at the opening to the amazing panelists, to our own reading and discussion in the children's reading room at the Countee Cullen Library, it was day I will never forget.
- This revered Harlem institution holds the ashes of Langston Hughes, the personal papers of Maya Angelou, art by Jacob Lawrence, and more. Now, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is turning 100 and is celebrating in a big way. bit.ly/4levdww #schomburg
- This is going to the top of my spring reading list!
- A video about my contribution to this upcoming anthology:
- "Ball In Now" by @ajuanmance.bsky.social is about women's rugby, Title IX, and "tackling the @#$% out of people." Check us out on Kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/sta...
- Reposted by Ajuan Mance#ff #followfriday Come Out and Play contributors on Bluesky! www.kickstarter.com/projects/sta... @ajuanmance.bsky.social @amalasrosa.bsky.social @andycasadonte.bsky.social @danverzone.bsky.social @dogspunk.bsky.social @dkdraws.bsky.social @jamdye.bsky.social @jonahnewmancomics.bsky.social 1/
- In my other life, I make autobiographical comics that are funny, silly, and occasionally wise. My next comic, on my years as a college rugby player, will appear in this anthology. Please support our Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/sta...
- This was my immediate thought upon reading about this. There are some critically acclaimed and highly celebrated Black artists in the planned exhibition. Why would the museum not want to mount the show. hyperallergic.com/992061/show-...
- Reposted by Ajuan ManceThe fact that Edward’s was willing to secure private funding to skirt the red tape and they refused is telling.
- My parents had these songs on heavy rotation. "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" melts my heart every time. Only in the last ten years did I learn she was a child prodigy who entered Howard U at 15, on a full scholarship. Thank you for the lasting gift of your music, Ms. Flack. R.I.P.
- I’m putting this museum on my travel list for 2025
- A Historic Black Newspaper Gets a Museum The New York Amsterdam News, which was founded 115 years ago and has published civil rights leaders, will convert most of its Harlem building into a museum and community space. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/n...
- I’m thrilled to be returning to Mills College for The Black Read: Living While Black with Professor Ajuan Mance, on Wednesday (2/19) in the Mills Hall living room, 5 PM. This event is free and open to the public. For information: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-black-...
- I'm adding several of these to my to-do list!
- If you want to take action to protect the freedom to read in your community, please take a look at these ideas: bookriot.com/56-small-tas...
- I curated a show! Join me for Saturday’s opening at the San Francisco Women Artists Gallery, from 2 PM to 4 PM, 647 Irving St at 8th Ave, San Francisco, CA.
- It's Black History Month! To celebrate, I'm posting this drawing from 2017. If Hon. #ShirleyChisholm and #SojournerTruth were alive today, I think they'd stand with all who face injustice.This drawing imagines them joining the #DAPL protests of 2016 and 2017. #Blacksky
- What activists and visionaries of the past inspire you? What do you think they'd do to advance freedom and justice today? #BlackHistoryMonth
- A few scenes from the Art of Diaspora Show Opening at the Richmond Art Center!
- I find hope and joy in my artists’ and writers, communities. The annual Art of the African Diaspora show opening at the Richmond Art Center was an amazing moment celebrate and connect with so many of the artists who inspire me! Many thanks to the organizers!
- Reposted by Ajuan ManceStop challenging books and we'll stop doing this panel and go back to talking about comics just for fun reasons! (There will be fun on the panel too, but c'mon y'all, please?)
- Reposted by Ajuan ManceSketchbook tour 4 www.youtube.com/watch?v=aN-M... #artofrobertliutrujillo #sketchbook #sketchbooktour #illustration #handlettering
- Who's going to #WonderCon? #comics
- Coming to D.C. in April... Hope to see you there! www.loyaltybookstores.com/whatdobrotha... #picturebook #kidsbooks #kidlit #BlackSky #bookstore
- On this day in #WomensHistoryMonth, I'm remembering women in our #healthcare history who accomplished so many firsts: Dr. Matilda Evans Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler Nurse Mary Eliza Mahoney 🩺 #WomensHealth #STEMeducation #Blackademics
- Kids ask the best questions. One asked if my hair turned white upon completion of WHAT DO BROTHAS DO ALL DAY?. 😆 #ShopLocal: bit.ly/BrothasBooks... #picturebooks #kidsbooks #BlackSky #bookstores
- A big THANK YOU to Sister's Uptown Bookstore in Harlem for hosting a series of wonderful readings of WHAT DO BROTHAS DO ALL DAY? with first graders in the district. 🥰 Shop local: bit.ly/BrothasBooks... #picturebook #kidsbooks #comics #BlackSky
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- Reposted by Ajuan ManceJason Bergman @jasonxbergman.bsky.social chats with Jordan Mechner @jmechner.bsky.social, computer game designer and, recently, a writer of historical adventure comics. This week sees the English release of Replay, a 320-page intergenerational memoir he’s written & drawn. www.tcj.com/ive-rediscov...
- Reposted by Ajuan ManceWomen’s History Month in Visual Arts~ March 17 schristywolfe.com/2020/03/17/w... Anna Washington Derry by Laura Wheeler Waring,1927 / Oil on canvas / 20”x16” / Smithsonian American Art Museum, DC #womenshistorymonth #5womenartists #womeninthearts #womenartists
- "Magic lies in challenging what seems impossible." —Carol Moseley Braun Artwork from SHE VOTES: www.chroniclebooks.com/products/she... #WomensHistoryMonth #inspiringquotes
- Reposted by Ajuan ManceThe thrill of competition! The fight for queer freedom! World travel! Cool bowling shirts! One book has it all!⠀ Back it on @wearezoop.bsky.social today!⠀ zoop.gg/c/agoodsport A Good Sport is a #graphicmemoir by Soizick Jaffre! #graphicnovel #lgbtqcomics #indiecomics #bowling #gaygames
- Reposted by Ajuan Mancethis is beautiful for me and my book 🔆 we’re included in this essay from a fellow Oakland author about our region’s literary culture www.nytimes.com/2024/03/13/b...
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- Reposted by Ajuan ManceVery highly recommend this comic! I've been reading it since it was a zine, excited to see it collected all in one place!
- Happy to announce GENDER STUDIES is out now! A comic treatment of the challenges, complexities, and occasional absurdity of life at the crossroads of race, gender, and geekiness. ➡️ bit.ly/GendStudies #comics #graphicnovel #GenderStudies #LGBTQ
- Reposted by Ajuan ManceSo excited about this!!! Congrats, Ajuan! 💜✊🏾
- Happy to announce GENDER STUDIES is out now! A comic treatment of the challenges, complexities, and occasional absurdity of life at the crossroads of race, gender, and geekiness. ➡️ bit.ly/GendStudies #comics #graphicnovel #GenderStudies #LGBTQ
- Happy to announce GENDER STUDIES is out now! A comic treatment of the challenges, complexities, and occasional absurdity of life at the crossroads of race, gender, and geekiness. ➡️ bit.ly/GendStudies #comics #graphicnovel #GenderStudies #LGBTQ
- Reposted by Ajuan ManceTwo of the most helpful tools I've come across in my comic career are BACK! The U.S. comic page template & comic thumbnail template (arranged in page spreads to help you keep covers & page turns in mind) by the incredible @lizkreates.bsky.social are now on her ko-fi!! ko-fi.com/lizkreates/s...
- Reposted by Ajuan ManceSo many wonderful titles and names made the list, including @levihastingsart.bsky.social @kellysue.bsky.social @gwillow.me and more! Congratulations to all! #comics #graphicnovels #graphicnonfiction #libraries #librarians #booksky #PubLibs 📚
- Reposted by Ajuan ManceUM by @btrcp.bsky.social is a magical girl comic about Eugenée, a Black, NB, aspiring birth-worker who finds themself mixed up in a millennia-old conflict between the powers that be & a faction of cosmic, shamanic midwives. It's epic af! Pledge the crowdfundr today: crowdfundr.com/umvolume1
- Reposted by Ajuan ManceThis is a horror and a disaster.
- Happy International Women's Day! 🔥 Here are some women who helped pave the way. These images are from some pieces I created for The Black Woman is God exhibit at SOMArts Cultural Center. #internationalwomensday #iwd #womenshistorymonth #octaviabutler #annadowner #lucilleclifton
- Reposted by Ajuan ManceAvail yourself of this opportunity and also GO SUPPORT THIS BOOK. BackerKit doesn't have the discoverability for comics the way Kickstarter does and they could really use your help.
- Reposted by Ajuan ManceCongrats to the FOUR-COLOR HEROES team on being named a Foreword Reviews "Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards" Finalist for the Graphic Novels & Comics Category! We're so proud of your work and your impact on readers! (@richardfairgray.bsky.social @drdrea.bsky.social @davidbooher.bsky.social)
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- THURSDAY! 📢 This event is free and open to the public. Please join us! #comics #censorship #booksbans #cartoonists
- Reposted by Ajuan ManceWe are celebrating the re-stock of @mariahrosemarie.bsky.social's Cook Like Your Ancestors this Friday! Come join us at 7 PM at our store for a book signing, food talk with Thien Pham, and comic readings with Christina Hu, Susannah Hainley, and Simon Jane Robrock!
- Reposted by Ajuan ManceFor those who missed the conversation at New York Public Library, here’s the link: www.youtube.com/live/PUsHPZp...
- Reposted by Ajuan ManceThere I am!! And with a rad team too ✨️
- Reposted by Ajuan Mance21 Multicultural Children's & YA Books for Women's History Month - Colours of Us bit.ly/3Vaz04h via @coloursofus #ReadYourWorld #KidLit #WomensHistoryMonth
- Reposted by Ajuan ManceI'm available to do comics covers. I got 5 slots opened!! send me an email for inquiring. ✉️ : lasalomee@gmail.com RT appreciated ☺️🙏
- So happy WHAT DO BROTHAS DO ALL DAY? made this list 🥰 ccbc.education.wisc.edu/literature-r... #librariansky #librarylove #childrenslibrarians #kidsbooks
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- Please join us! It's going to be a great discussion. This event is also FREE and open to ALL! #comics #censorship #bookbans #LGBTQ
- “Because Black history isn’t centered, you have to search harder for those stories." — @joelchristiangill.bsky.social www.slj.com/story/how-gr... #comics #BlackHistory #BlackHistoryMonth
