Evan Narcisse

For the record, "The Natural" is a part of our curriculum and was used as blueprint for the creation of the program. So was the LA Rebellion. What keeps us up at night now is how do we better document our games & experiences of students breaking in for critical mass? BIG is also having these talks.

The fact that ai art and writing programs are built on stolen work really seems to be fading from the discussion even amongst artists and writers, which is a bit shit.

Anyway, sorry not sorry to anybody hoping for How to Solve All This™-type answers. If you read all this, thank you.

YouTube video by Black Games Archive Dot's Home: A Critical Discussion with Evan Narcisse

Talked about that in this video with @blackgamesarchive.bsky.social youtu.be/oplKLzDLf5A?...

Meanwhile, conversations around ‘what a Black game is’ kinda have to include on projects that only have a few Black people working on them, if any. (Dot's Home and @aerialknight.com’s Never Yield joints are obviously capital-B Black, duh.)

But that sense of professional precarity puts a chilling effect on the potential that they ever get there.

Spirits of Rebellion: Black Cinema at UCLA Zeinabu irene Davis’s documentary compiles a trove of interviews with visionary directors Charles Burnett, Billy Woodberry, Julie Dash, Haile Gerima, and more that provides an overview of the L.A. Reb...

Organizations like @wearegameheads.bsky.social , @blackingaming.bsky.social, @bvigaming.bsky.social, and others are necessary and great. There’s a chance that they evolve into intergenerational skill-sharing creative collectives like the L.A. Rebellion. www.filmlinc.org/films/spirit...

It feels like Black folks in games experience more precarity because we’re always thinking of those questions and looking over our shoulders.

More black voices in video games would strengthen the medium as a whole but the chasms between “how do I break in?’, “how do I stay here?’ and ‘how do I get to push the envelope?’ are vast.

This shit from my essay "The Natural" (coming up on a full decade?!?!?!) feels more true than ever.

The Natural: The Trouble Portraying Blackness in Video Games - Kotaku Every morning, I run a pick through my hair. It’s important that I do this when it’s still spongy and damp from the shower. Wait too long and my hair gets

something my intuition's been telling me for a while: there have been so few Black people who've had sustained successful careers on the creative side of video games that it's taking a loooong time to reach what feels like critical mass for cultural change. kotaku.com/the-natural-...

"Move Ya Body" also shows how people outside of Black queer culture saw the biggest paydays from this music in its earlier days, just like damn near every other Black artform.

YouTube video by Sundance Institute Meet the Artist 2025: Elegance Bratton on “Move Ya Body: The Birth of House”

Last week I caught Elegance Bratton's amazing documentary "Move Ya Body: The Birth of House at @austinfilm.bsky.social. (Twin bro's a big house head + watching it def took me back in time.) It emphatically illustrates how Black queer culture created house music. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xw7-...

[August 3rd, 1985] Alan Moore received the Jack Kirby Award for Best Writer for his work on "Swamp Thing" from Jack Kirby himself at the San Diego Comic-Con, held at the San Diego Convention Center

I beg you, save my daughter from death
I beg you and kiss your feet. Save my beloved daughter from death
I am a poor mother who cannot afford the surgery. I am a mother grieving over her daughter who will die without being saved
Oh God, give me the cost of the surgery

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Black spray paint stencil on an orange beam that says “That real shit, that shit that makes you feel shit”

When people ask me how we define art made by humans

Going to be part of a panel about TV and comic writing, come ask me questions about it in person longbeachcomiccon.com

Promotional image announcing Daniel Kibblesmith (me) as a guest at Long Beach Comic Con, August 30-31 at Long Beach Convention Center. Feat. Comic cover imager from Marvel's Loki and Disney and Dynamite's Darkwing Duck.

OKAY LISTEN UP, MEAN BEAN MACHINES

I am a *GUEST* at Long Beach Comic Con 2025, 8/30 - 8/31 — If you didn't have Labor Day Weekend plans, you now do and if you DID have plans, THIS WILL BE BETTER.

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SEE YOU THERE

Emmett Till memorial shot up with bullets

People with guns proudly posing in front of the Emmett Till memorial shot up with bullets

A bulletproof Emmett Till memorial. Riddled with bullet dents.

All I think about when I hear people say that it’s bad taste to dance on Hulk Hogan’s grave is that Emmett Till’s monument had to be replaced with a 500lb steel bulletproof monument because white people simply won’t stop riddling it with bullets. So now it just has tons of dents. From bullets.

tag-team champs w/ @austinwalker.bsky.social

Did I ever send you my Amazing-Man pitch?

a screenshot from the linked site that reads: Jesse "The Body" Ventura would finally figure out what happened with his push for a union when he sued Vince McMahon.  Ventura recalled his attorney's back and forth with the former WWE Chairman during his deposition. In a direct line of questioning, Ventura's lawyer asked McMahon if anybody had ever tried to form a wrestling union, to which Vince remembered Ventura attempting at one point. When the lawyer asked McMahon how he knew, he confidently said that Hulk Hogan had told him. Absolutely shocked at this new information, directly from Vince McMahon no less, Ventura was understandably taken aback. "It was like someone punched me in the face," Ventura told "Stone Cold" Steve Austin on his podcast. "This was my friend. And I thought, 'Hogan betrayed me? Hogan called Vince and ratted me?'" Austin proceeded to ask why Hogan would do this, especially considering that "The Body" had openly spoken about their friendship. Ventura responded, "Hogan continued to lie and said he didn't do it. Well, in the trial, we got the records of WrestleMania III, the big one. Him and Andre." Ventura continued, "Well, Hogan made more money than all of us combined, including Andre. So naturally, he didn't want a union."

apropos: never forget that hulk hogan sucked for so many reasons, and was a huge twerp about it www.wrestlinginc.com/1062201/how-...

maybe not joy? more like I was ignoring his racist ass and now I gotta think about him? DEFINITELY NOT GRIEF OR NOSTALGIA.

The complicated joy of outliving someone you used to watch on TV who wound up helping destroy one of the best places you ever worked, and hastened the decline of the American journalism ecosystem

One of the fakest to ever do it

IRON MAN #10: Inside The Issue For what is an Iron Man, what has he got? If not himself, then he has naught. The record shows, I wrote the prose. And did it my way

Want to know who Iron Man’s love interest would have been if my run had continued? I have one final newsletter’s worth of BTS for you…

Looking forward to being part of the "Ink & Code" panel with @amely.bsky.social, @subversiverse.bsky.social, @losthiskeysman.bsky.social, and Raymond Mosco at #sdcc2025 this Saturday!

I'm waiting over here........

Malcolm-Jamal Warner, and the Other Side of the Climb The actor, most remembered for playing Theo Huxtable on ‘The Cosby Show,’ passed away Sunday. But his legacy spans much more than one character.

Malcolm-Jamal Warner, most remembered for playing Theo Huxtable on ‘The Cosby Show,’ passed away Sunday. But his legacy spans much more than one character. I wrote about how I’ll remember him best. www.theringer.com/2025/07/21/t...

ICYMI--Strange Scaffold's next game is an online co-op experience called Co-op Kaiju Horror Cooking, and it launches July 29th!

Check out the trailer, give it a wishlist, and maybe even try our open playtest.
Happy cooking!!🥧
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