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Speaker 1: The Jim here is buzzing as eager comic book fans

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Speaker 1: go booth to booth here at the sixth annual Comics

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Speaker 1: in Color Festival, an event that shows off black comic

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Speaker 1: book creators of all ages. While many local comic book

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Speaker 1: creators are here showing off their work, several legends are

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Speaker 1: here as well, displaying a wide range of stories. David F.

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Speaker 1: Walker has worked on many Marvel and DC comics, but

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Speaker 1: he's showing off his personal works today, like a reimagining

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Speaker 1: of Huckleberry Finn and a graphic novel history of the

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Speaker 1: Black Panther Party. He says it was important to him

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Speaker 1: to tell the story of the Panthers visually.

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Speaker 2: They were very cognizant of how they looked and how

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Speaker 2: they presented themselves publicly, that every book that's written about

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Speaker 2: them left so much of that out, and it was

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Speaker 2: like I wanted to try to capture that dynamic, iconic

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Speaker 2: quality that they brought for.

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Speaker 1: Artist Marcus Kwame did the art for both of Walker's stories.

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Speaker 1: He says events like these matter a lot as many

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Speaker 1: institutions start to roll back on diversity in.

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Speaker 3: A time where you know people are pushing back at

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Speaker 3: like representation. People are pushing back against just opportunity unities

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Speaker 3: for marginalized people in general, it is important to show

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Speaker 3: up and say we're still here, we're still creating, we're

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Speaker 3: still you know.

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Speaker 1: Inspiring others from Roxbury Kyle Bray WBZ, Boston's news radio