The comic book world has made great strides when it comes to diversity and representation in recent years. Titles like Bitch Planet and Ms. Marvel, heavily featuring women of color, are flying off the shelves. Iron Man is becoming a black girl, and Spider-Man is now an Afro-Latino guy. However, Marvel has no black female writers, and mainstream comics is still an overwhelmingly white, male world.
Jazmin Truesdale is one of many women who are frustrated by this, which is why she started AZA Entertainment, a comics company that “will develop a new generation of heroes for TV, Film, Comics, and Games that will be inclusive of everyone no matter the age, gender, ethnicity, religion, or sexual orientation.”
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