Akira, Volume 1 Rotopol Press Brandon-Croft brought Black women’s perspectives

Brandon-Croft brought Black women’s perspectives to an international audience with her trailblazing comic strip Where I’m Coming From

and thinks a lot about the past

by their caustic boyfriend Trip

As a lone hunter tracks an elusive beast through the forest

Akira, Volume 1 Rotopol Press Brandon-Croft brought Black women’s perspectivesBy Katsuhiro Otomo. Published by Kodansha. Softcover, 352 pages, B&W, 2009 (originally published in Japanese in 1982) Welcome to Neo Tokyo, built on the ashes of a Tokyo annihilated by a blast of unknown origin that triggered World War III. The lives of two streetwise teenage friends, Tetsuo and Kaneda, change forever when paranormal abilities begin to waken in Tetsuo, making him a target for a shadowy agency that will stop at nothing to prevent