Oh man, imagine how illustrator Marcus Williams joined and writer Greg Burnham felt when their Sci-Fi comic series that honors America’s black Tuskeegee Airmen pilots.
Based 80 years in the future the series follows a group of teens who have extraordinary piloting, thinking and hand-to-hand skills. This small squad of young gifted aviators are forced to become earth’s last line of defense!
It’s important to note that these main characters are people of color (not in a supporting role) and the comic series will be aiming to bring adventure and action and history into the fold.
A great way to bring kids into a world where they can also learn, although the creators say it’s not just for kids.
The kickstarter crushed it’s goal of $10k and 1,696 backers pledged $74,131 to help bring the project to life!
So, the creators are not well funded and hard at work, the visuals so far look amazing.
Here is a little info from the campaign page:
What is Tuskegee Heirs?: From the minds of illustrator Marcus Williams (Hero Cats, Super Natural and D.M.C) and children’s book author Greg Burnham (Broken Glass and Grandpa’s Shoes) comes the “Tuskegee Heirs: Flames of Destiny” series.
Tuskegee Heirs is a futuristic sci-fi adventure that follows a squadron of young, gifted aviators who are forced to become Earth’s last line of defense against a menacing race of artificially intelligent villains bent on destroying civilization.
What is The Premise: The duo looks to pay homage to the historic Tuskegee Airmen, while bringing forth a new set of character rich young heroes. With a graphic novel set to release mid 2016, Marcus and Greg intend to push this project towards animation. Following in the Japanese animation genre’s age old practice of dropping unusually talented youths inside the cockpits of enormously powerful machines, the amazing pilots of this series will be no exception.
And see some visuals and video below:
Here is further reading about this awesome project:
http://www.powerhouseanimation.com/tuskegee-heirs/
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