Writer/Illustrator Yehudi Mercado @ymercado shares the inspirations behind some of his many comics hitting the shelves. We talk about late friend of the show Jenny Colvin, conformity, masculinity, combining genres, being the only Jewish and Latinx kids in school, book bans, black joy, maxing out Photoshop layers, Shazam, and Miles Morales.
Jenny Colvin’s Reading Envy blog
Yehudi Mercado at supermercado.pizza
The Mean Streets of South Uptown (from Jerry Craft’s New Kid)
Friends of the Furman Libraries
Fresh Picks
What If Miles Morales Was Thor?
Secret Stacks artwork by Severin Piehl, creator of Tove
Theme song by Julie Jurgens, who blogs at Hi, Miss Julie! and is on twitter as @himissjulie
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