Black Comic Book Festival at the Schomburg Center 1/12/2013

Tomorrow January 12 2013 is Harlem’s First Black Comic Book Festival at the Schomburg Center for Research of Black Culture.
Saturday, January 12, 2013, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Registration is required! (see below)
Presented by the Schomburg Junior Scholars and Jonathan Gayles, PhD (Georgia State University), THE BLACK COMIC BOOK FESTIVAL is a dynamic festival for young people that celebrates the rich tradition of black superheroes and features a screening of the film “White Scripts and Black Supermen: Black Masculinities in Comic Books”; a pop-up art exhibition of “Black Kirby”- a visual homage to the legendary comic book artist Jack Kirby by artists John Jennings (SUNY Buffalo) and Stacey Robinson; panel discussions, hands-on workshops, and exhibit tables with premiere black comic book artists from across the country. Free. All ages welcome. Registration is required. Contact schomburged@nypl.org.
Full program at http://www.nypl.org/locations/tid/64/node/193924.