Ajuan Mance is an accomplished artist and educator producing graphic novels, comics, and art books such as Living While Black: Portraits of Everyday Existence, What Do Brothas Do All Day?, Gender Studies: The Confessions of an Accidental Outlaw, and 1001 Black Men: Portraits of Masculinity at the Intersections. Her comics have also appeared in award-winning collections such as Drawing Power: Women’s Stories of Sexual Violence, Harassment, and Survival, and Come Out and Play: The Queer Sports Project.

While they were a professor of Ethnic Studies and English at Mills College, Mance produced scholarly works such as Inventing Black Women: African American Women Poets and Self-Representation and Before Harlem: An Anthology of African American Literature from the Long Nineteenth Century. Now, she teaches both illustration and comics at CCA.

Join Mance and CCA Comics professor Justin Hall as they discuss Mance’s remarkable and multi-faceted career, her scholarship and comics, how long it really takes to draw 1001 Black men, and what accidental outlaws do all day.

Artwork above is by Ajuan Mance.