Acclaimed Atlanta author to feature as Guest Speaker for BIPOC Comic Celebration
Young comic fans will get a chance to explore heroes, origin stories, and imagination through a cultural lens as acclaimed Black speculative fiction author Milton J. Davis headlines Evansville’s first BIPOC Comic Celebration.
On Saturday, June 27, 2026, Black Speculative Fiction writer Milton J. Davis will be the main speaker at the first annual Black, Indigenous, & People of Color (BIPOC) Comic Celebration. This celebration has been an ongoing summer celebration of comics; designing your own, watching, creating, and learning about comic heroes and villains. Saturday will be the culmination of the celebration, where Davis will speak at Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library, Central location. The celebration is a collaboration between the EVPL and the Soul Writers’ Guild at the Evansville African American Museum (EAAM).
This event was created to provide a unique opportunity for a diverse group of young people to see themselves as included in the greater genre of Comics & Graphic Arts. This includes literature, art, science, history, and mythology. Additionally, this is an opportunity for these youth to learn and appreciate their cultural ” origin stories” as well as compose their own. This celebration will allow them to see themselves as people capable of “super” things.
Milton J. Davis is a Black Speculative Fiction writer whose specialties include “stretching the imagination with Sword and Soul, Fantasy, Science fiction, and ‘Steamfunk’. This is a term Davis coined as a variation of Steampunk. Mr. Davis is a contributing author to “Black Panther: Takes of Wakanda”, published by Marvel & Titan Books. In 2014, Davis and Balogun Ojetade were winners of the Urban Action Showcase Award for Best Script for the screenplay “Ngolo”. His work has been internationally recognized by the British Science Fiction Association with their nomination for his work “The Swarm” in 2017. In 2020 he was again nominated by the same institution for”Carnival”. In 2024 he received the ConCarolinas Polaris and the DeepSouthCon Phoenix Award for contributions to Southern fandom.
Originally a chemical engineer by trade, Mr. Davis is currently an author of over three dozen works including books and graphic novels. He is also the owner of MVmedia, LLC, his publishing company. One of the main reasons for independent publishing, Milton says, is that ” it is vital that our stories be told our way in their truest form”.
The events starts Saturday at 10 am in EVPL Central’s second floor Rotunda Room. This event is free to the public.
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