If two years ago we published two special posts for Black History Month, one dedicated to Black Panther, the first black superhero in the history of comics and the other to Luke Cage, Powerman , the first African American to own title character in the comic-book market, and last year we celebrating with three more posts, one dealing with an artist of the Golden Age, Matt Baker, one dedicated to an artist of the Silver and Bronze Age, Billy Graham and the last devoted to a more contemporary artist, Damion Scott this year will focus the celebration on that in my view, are perhaps the two African American artists biggest story of the 9 th Art: Trevor Von Eeden (yes, I remember your claims last year, but I wanted to claim Billy Graham) and Matt Baker (yes, again!).
But we split, in this first post enjoy art by Trevor Von Eeden, an artist as great and groundbreaking as restless and rebellious. Trevor graphically created Black Lightning, the first African American superhero in DC Comics in their own right (remember that John Stewart had earlier appeared in the pages of Green Lantern), later to draw several stories of characters Batman, Green Arrow or Powerman & Iron Fist, among others. Over time, Trevor was away from the mainstream comic, saying he did not feel comfortable in an industry where characters had little room to race and that the few who had, or were very marginal or were not treated properly, except that no liked the treatment he received nothing from their own DC at that time, in his own words, made him feel like the "black artist" of the company.
In recent years, Trevor has focused on the realization of the comic book The Original Johnson, about boxer Jack Johnson, even said that he had finally found the work that had to do, she had finally found the job that fully returned to comic books, in every way.
To read more about Trevor Von Eeden, I would urge this wonderful post Pepo Pérez , where he published several excerpts from an interesting interview with the artist (with sentimental affaires included).
THE ART OF TREVOR VON Eeden
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