The Adventures of Lion Man

The Legend of Lion Man Lives Again

In 1947, Orrin C. Evans created one of the world's first Black superheroes--Lion Man! Appearing in the only issue of All Negro Comics, superhero history was forever changed. And now Lion Man is back!

Readapted and remixed for modern times, the award-winning visionary team of John Jennings and David Brame (After the Rain) create a mind-blowing Afrofuturistic tale of cosmic splendor while Bill Campbell (The Day the Klan Came to Town) and up-and-coming Zimbabwean writer, Yvette Lisa Ndlovu (Drinking from Graveyard Wells) deliver a Bondian African spy thriller full of plot twists, conspiracy thriillers, and political intrigue.

In The Adventures of Lion Man, our hero steps bravely out of the past into a bold new future.

Author: John Jennings,Yvette Lisa Ndlovu,Bill Campbell
Publisher: Rosarium Publishing
Published: 08/12/2025
Pages: 124
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9798986614670


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 06/01/2025 pg. 55
Publishers Weekly 08/04/2025

About the Author
Jennings, John: - John Jennings is a professor, author, graphic novelist, curator, Harvard Fellow, New York Times Bestseller, 2018 Eisner Winner, and all-around champion of Black culture.As Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California at Riverside (UCR), Jennings examines the visual culture of race in various media forms including film, illustrated fiction, and comics and graphic novels. He is also the director of Abrams ComicArts imprint Megascope, which publishes graphic novels focused on the experiences of people of color. His research interests include the visual culture of Hip Hop, Afrofuturism and politics, Visual Literacy, Horror, and the EthnoGothic, and Speculative Design and its applications to visual rhetoric.Jennings is co-editor of the 2016 Eisner Award-winning collection The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art (Rutgers) and co-founder/organizer of The Schomburg Center's Black Comic Book Festival in Harlem. He is co-founder and organizer of the MLK NorCal's Black Comix Arts Festival in San Francisco and also SOL-CON: The Brown and Black Comix Expo at the Ohio State University. Campbell, Bill: -

Bill Campbell is the author of Sunshine
Patriots, My Booty Novel, and the anti-racism satire, Koontown
Killing Kaper. Along with Edward Austin Hall, he co-edited the
groundbreaking anthology, Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism
and Beyond. He also co-edited Stories for Chip: A Tribute
to Samuel R. Delany with Nisi Shawl, Future Fiction: New
Dimensions in International Science Fiction and Fantasy with
Francesco Verso, and APB: Artists against Police
Brutality with Jason Rodriguez and John Jennings. His
Afrofuturist spaceploitation graphic novel, Baaaad Muthaz (with
David Brame and Damian Duffy) was released in 2019. His historical
graphic novel with Bizhan Khodabandeh, The Day the Klan Came to
Town, was released by PM Press in 2021. Campbell lives in
Washington, DC, where he spends his time with his family and helms
Rosarium Publishing.

Brame, David: - David Brame is proudly blackity black, an afrofuturist and scholar. His most recent scholarly creative accomplishments for 2019 and 2020 include Sanford Biggers: CODESWITCH in collaboration with Professor John Jennings, The Bronx Museum and produced by Yale University Press. His scholarly work geared towards black youth called, is called The Struggle, produced by Minnesota Press. His graphic novel After the Rain, disseminated by ABRAMS/Megascope, a short story written by Nnedi Okorafor and adapted by Professor John Jennings, was nominated for an Eisner. His comic work explores issues of race and identity in the context of the American South, Black Gothica, mysticism and the African diaspora.
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