All-Negro Comics: America's First Black Comic BookWINNER OF THE EISNER AWARD The first comic ever created by African Americans, for African Americans. Three quarters of a century ago, Orrin C. Evans lead a team of cartoonists to create the first comic book anthology of original Black characters created by Black talent, with the expressed purpose of entertaining while rejecting harmful stereotypes and pushing boundaries in the industry. This was only 8 years after Action Comics #1, 6 years after