This.
I'm from the West Indies. I have no ties to any other region. Never lived anywhere else.
But on Amazon in the US, UK, anywhere else really, my novel, The Nightward, an explicitly West Indian inspired fantasy, is listed under African American.
All black artists are not American either.
“Scots discovering tailgating” could be a real Prometheus stealing fire moment
made a janky little finger-typed graphic about this using my human words and art made by a real person
S. Elizabeth
R.S.A. Garcia (BUY THE NIGHTWARD)
Mark E. Poasts
This is, like, half my comics
Kinda makes me think of how some book stores would group all Black authors into one genre under “African American”
[in a dim, smoke-filled room, several figures gather around a table]
Executive of Marvel Comics: “the one-page-per-week guy is at it again.”
Person in charge at First Second Books: “you worry too much. Nobody listens to him.”
Webtoon CEO: “we mustn’t underestimate him. I propose we send a Team.”
Danny Cherry Jr (twitter/Insta/tiktok: @Deecherrywriter)
