BlackRadioIsBack.com - Official Blog of the Syndicated FuseBox Radio Broadcast!: NYCC 2015

Events like New York Comic Con (hell, the comics industry at large) wouldn't be what and where they are without the dedicated fans of various kinds of popular culture in the mix as well as all of the artists - known, on the verge and unknown, working as independents or with large publishers/distributors like Marvel, DC, Image or Dark Horse - who work hard daily as creatives to make awesome visions of characters in their own style out to the masses as colorists, pencilers. writers, designers and more.

The Artist Alley section along with the main floor of Jacob Javits Center (especially with the insanely successful 1st Afrofuturefest event where due to public transportation issues via a non-functioning PATH train from NJ into the city, we weren't able to get our interviews in with folks and solo pictures - but, soon come...) is full of these artists promoting and selling their graphic novels, comic books, prints, t-shirts, history and more throughout the 4 days of NYCC.

The FuseBox Radio Broadcast/BlackRadioIsBack.com family wanted to put a bit of a photo spotlight on all of the Artists of Color that we could document as possible during moments of work, rest and more throughout our experience with this year's event.

It's just been recently where these creatives are getting more props for their work on all levels in the comics industry, especially in the post-Dwayne McDuffie era and all of these folks need to get more credit for what they've done with the growth of the independent media sector of comics at least since the late 1980s to the present with quality output that is currently flourishing now in the Internet area, much less various folks' work with the majors.

Check them all out, Google these fine artists to support them financially (since making art ain't free) and hope y'all dig 'em!

** All pictures taken by Mary Nichols (DJ Fusion/FuseBox Radio Broadcast) under a "Creative Commons Attribution - No Derivatives" license. Please feel free to use & share them if you wish with attribution/credit to the photographer (besides these pictures, there are plenty more from New York Comic Con at large [over 100+] and others over at the official FuseBox Radio Broadcast's Flickr Page and Behance/Prosite Page) ... thank you! **

During the past weekend, we attended various a ton of events during New York Comic Con (NYCC) and New York Super Week (NYSW) in midtown Manhattan.

As much as some folks (mostly shell shocked nerds & the jaded mainstream masses) seem to look at the growing popularity of events like this along with the boom of comic book based TV Shows, movies, etc. as something that isn't going to last, NYCC has been going strong as a marquee event for all lovers of popular culture since it's beginnings in 2006, growing to it's current status of selling out tickets in literal minutes with 100,000s of attendees over the days and becoming the second largest event in all of New York City.

Popularity is not necessarily a bad thing at all, especially when a huge portion of it is folks of all ages who genuinely enjoy their corners of pop culture fandom get a chance to mix and mingle with a huge crew of people who are also on the same wave.

One of the ways this shows is via the cosplay that comes with a lot of Comic Con-type of events. A lot of folks get very intricate with crafting their costumes with care, whether doing a straight version of a comic book or TV character or with putting their own unique remixed view of them to show to the world.

Below are a few pictures of some of the fantastic cosplay the BlackRadioIsBack.com and FuseBox Radio Broadcast family was able to check out over the past few days, featuring everything from Storm & Black Panther in royal regalia to the kids of Bob's Burgers out of the apocalypse to Eazy-E rolling in his different 6-4 to Rick & Morty and more - Give 'em a look and enjoy!