![]() ![]() She was black, and a woman, writing about time travel and vampires and dark dystopias in her novels. "We were just reading traditional Harlem Renaissance writers."Īfter graduating, he picked up one of Butler's novels, and he was hooked.īutler herself knew she stood out when she started publishing. He went to a historically black university - Jackson State in Mississippi - but there was a lot of "stigma around speculative fiction," Jennings said. Both avid Butler fans, they hope the new release - and the new format - will raise Butler's profile for a new audience.īutler was the first black sci-fi author that Jennings ever read. She should be as famous as Asimov or anyone else," Damian Duffy said.ĭuffy and John Jennings are the comic artists behind the "Kindred" graphic novel, which was released last month. Her work won big awards in the 1980s and '90s - both the Hugo and the Nebula - but she isn't as well-known as other sci-fi legends. ![]() The same could be said about Butler herself. ![]()
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