{"id":10309,"date":"2017-01-06T16:07:54","date_gmt":"2017-01-06T23:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newmexicopbs.org\/productions\/newmexicoinfocus\/?p=10309"},"modified":"2020-06-02T09:58:12","modified_gmt":"2020-06-02T16:58:12","slug":"indigenous-comics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newmexicopbs.org\/productions\/newmexicoinfocus\/indigenous-comics\/","title":{"rendered":"Indigenous Comics"},"content":{"rendered":"

January 6, 2017 – Lee Francis<\/a> is the creator of Native Realities Press, which is being incubated at Creative Startups<\/a> in Albuquerque. Francis is from Laguna Pueblo and says he was a comics nerd growing up but never saw himself, as a Native American, in comics. Native Realities Press<\/a> is the only exclusively Indigenous press for Native comics artists, some of whom found him when other publishers were not interested in letting them showcase serious issues in Indian Country, like sexual abuse, in their comics. Lee also produced the first Indigenous ComiCon<\/a> in Albuquerque last fall.<\/p>\n

This week on New Mexico in Focus, correspondent Megan Kamerick sits down with Francis and Dale DeForest<\/a>, creator of the Hero Twins comic, which is based on\u00a0Din\u00e9 folklore.<\/p>\n