But we have to make sure of that - and sometimes we'd mention their ethnicity.We have to remind them all the time that people are not white."ĭiversity in comics is such an important topic for Garcia. "He was like, 'What do you mean.' And I was like, 'He looks white.' And he'd be, 'But they're not white.' And I was like, 'I know, but people are going to think he's white.' And he's like 'Why?' and I'd say, 'In America it's a thing.' And now he's so sensitive to it. "I had to explain to Gabriel what default white is, because he's Brazilian. It came up in the context of a little anecdote Garcia told about Gabriel Picolo, the artist on Teen Titans: Raven, and it captures the mindset that goes into ensuring we have diverse casts in comics. One interesting topic that came up was the concept of default white - the idea that audiences will assume a character is white if given no explicit information otherwise.
There is another element to this, however, that goes far beyond just offering an authentic voice for the comic. Offering a writer this opportunity in and of itself is a statement that speaks to teens who might aspire to create content of their own. What this offers teens is an opportunity to see that they too, regardless of background, can create (which, in turn, will only encourage more people to create more stories worth reading). From 1 New York Times bestselling author Kami Garcia and first-time graphic novel artist Gabriel Picolo comes this riveting tale of finding the strength to face who you are and learning to trust othersand yourself. Not only that, but the target audience received them well. Some fantasy novels, such as Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi and An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir, have offered authentic representations of diverse voices in genre fiction. Very recently, especially in YA fiction, diverse fiction written by diverse writers has become a huge topic of discussion. And there are numerous people of color writing works for young adults today. Stan Lee and Jack Kirby created iconic characters like Black Panther, but only in the last couple decades have people of color written T'challa's stories. Teen Titans: Beast Boy Loves Raven Book 1 of 1: Teen Titans: Beast Boy Loves Raven (2021) by Kami Garcia and Gabriel Picolo 4. When a tragic accident takes the life of seventeen-year-old Raven Roth’s foster momand Raven’s memoryshe moves to New Orleans to live with her foster mother’s family and finish her senior year of high school. Comics, for a very long time, were primarily written by white people. Today we’re delighted to welcome Kami Garcia to the WNDB blog to discuss TEEN TITANS: RAVEN, out July 2, 2019.
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