"Being a black artist, the first thing people want to talk about is your blackness, the importance of your blackness, …"

"The graphic style itself is influenced by a lot of very layered and detailed comics that I read as a kid, like 'Vagab…"

"For a while, I was nervous about portraying women because of the objectification that automatically comes with it, wh…"

"I'm really interested in independent publishers and memes and mini comics. But even before that, I was interested in …"

"I moved around a lot when I was a child; two of the houses I grew up in have totally disappeared. One was burnt in a …"

"I kept wanting to push my image as validity; I wanted to see my portrait on a wall and know it was okay."

"The social media bit is really about documenting process. I like the dialogue if it's constructive, but I'm now at a …"

"My identity is not based on performance; it's based on something that's pre-determined by someone else, and I don't e…"

"When I was in school, I conceptually didn't want black people to have context, to take it out of all that history. I …"

"I don't think about race before I start drawing. I think about how to make that mark to fit whatever purpose I need i…"