The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay (2011).Kitty Pryde and Wolverine, Chris Claremont and Al Milgrom (1984-1985).The Silver Surfer: And Who Shall Mourn for Him? Stan Lee, Howard Purcell, et al.Unveiling Visions: The Alchemy of the Black Imagination, The Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture (2015-2016).

Maus, Art Spiegelman (1980-1991 complete version 1996)

Outside the Box: Interviews with Contemporary Cartoonists, Hillary L.

Comics, Comix & Graphic Novels: A History of Comic Art, Roger Sabin (1996).

Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art, Scott McCloud (1993).

Silver Surfer: Ghost Light, John Jennings and Valentine De Landro (2023).

Box of Bones: Book One, Ayize Jama Everett and John Jennings (2021).After the Rain, Nnedi Okorafor, adapted by John Jennings and David Brame (2021).Parable of the Sower, Octavia Butler, adapted by Damian Duffy and John Jennings (2021).Kindred, Octavia Butler, adapted by Damian Duffy and John Jennings (2018).The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art, edited by Frances Gateward and John Jennings (2016).Black Kirby: In Search of the MotherBoxx Connection, John Jennings and Stacey Robinson (2015).Subscribe to Novel Dialogue on Apple, Spotify, or Stitcher to listen and to be notified when new episodes are released. In the podcast’s first-ever episode about graphic novels, Jennings and Cloutier talk comic book history, the power of collaboration, and the importance of long showers. Jennings is both teacher and student of comics’ powerful lessons, and lucky for listeners, his course comes with an illustrated syllabus, aka illabus. Given that Jennings has just entered the Marvel Universe with the debut of Silver Surfer: Ghost Light, the timing is right to reflect on the pressures and pleasures of adapting beloved stories for a contemporary audience. In this conversation with critic, translator, and teacher of a creative course on the art of making comics, Jean-Christophe Cloutier, Jennings explores how he makes those decisions that range from the design of endpapers to selecting a character’s skin tone with the ultimate aim of championing Black culture and Black comics. John Jennings-Hugo Award winner, New York Times bestselling author, curator, scholar, and Artist-is keenly aware that in adapting novels for the graphic format, his decisions turn what has only been imagined into facts drawn on the page.

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