#BlackHistoryMonth ProFile Friday
Leilani Hickerson is a freelance illustrator and comics creator.
She was born in the heartland of New Jersey in the year of 1983. She graduated in 2006 from The University of the Arts in Philadelphia. There she received her BFA in Illustration and the university’s most distinguished illustration award.
She contributed to the Black Comix anthology and drew the adaptation of Ethel M. Caution’s “The Buyers of Dreams” for African-American Graphic Classics. Her work has been featured in the travelling exhibition “Out of Sequence: Underrepresented Voices in American Comics” and “Beyond the Frame: African American Comic Book Artists”. She has also collaborated with Marvel/DC pencillers Yvel Guichet and Joe Rubenstein. She is currently collaborating with her sister on a children’s comic called My Hafu.
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This is beautiful…
:O NICE!
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