Rupert Kinnard's Cathartic Comics

Rupert Kinnard has been drawing comics for fifty years, while nurturing his side gigs as a designer, art director, and community activist.  His characters The Brown Bomber and Diva Touché Flambé were the first queer African-American superheroes — long before DC and Marvel introduced Mister Terrific, Thunder, and Ayo and Aneka.

Now, Rupert has published an exetensive hardback collection of his art, titled Ooops, I Just Catharted: Fifty Years of Cathartic Comics.  Rupert sits down with S.W. Conser to discuss superhero fandom, comics art in museums and on the stage, and the intersection between disability rights, African-American visibility, and LGBTQ activism.