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

How Can I Stop Book Bans?

The Mean Streets of South Uptown (from Jerry Craft’s New Kid) 

Friends of the Furman Libraries

Greenville Animal Care

 

Fresh Picks

Sci-Fu

Chunky

Shazam: Thundercrack

What If Miles Morales Was Thor?

The Ghoul Next Door

 

Find a comics shop near you

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