Melanie Stevens appears at Books with Pictures on Saturday, December 22, 2018 at 6 PM for the launch party of WATERSHED!
WaterShed, Volume 1: PostModern” is the pilot for a graphic novel series that will span nine volumes. WaterShed is a love and death story about America through the lens of race: a sweeping account that merges nonfictional elements of history and current events with speculative fiction and features a Black femme protagonist who unwittingly finds herself directly and indirectly oscillating between three time periods: the unsettled past of this country’s original sin, present day (at the infancy of a new wave of the Black Liberation Movement), and an uncertain dystopian future consumed by a questionable oligarchy.
Melanie Stevens is an artist, illustrator and writer. She is the co-founder and editor of Miss Anthology, an organization that supports and publishes racially and economically diverse young comic artists who identify as female or LGBTQIA+. She is also the co-curator of Nat Turner Project, a fugitive gallery space that grants artists of color the freedom to create or express their own language within and without the parameters of racial commodification or designation. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree for Political Science from Yale University and her Master’s of Fine Arts degree for Visual Studies at Pacific Northwest College of Art, where she currently teaches.
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