#GratNin

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In 2023 we back on our Tumblr shit! New GratNin trading card images just dropped over on Patreon.

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Instant Draw - Ron Wimberly

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Kibo Data Card Artwork done for GRATNIN:KGMR

Be sure to check out @ronaldwimberly comic and latest Episodes on Webtoons-

https://m.webtoons.com/en/challenge/gratnin-kgmr/list?title_no=415176&webtoon-platform-redirect=true

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04/12/20 Webtoon debut! Three chunin from a pacifist shinobi clan break the clan rules to take on some local hustlers. Ninja vs. Pirate action! Streets vs. Shadow! Nimpou vs. 52 hand blocks! A chanbara dialectic! Pugilist praxis!

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Get the latest episodes of GratNin on Stela Unlimited app now! #gratnin #comic #ninja #graphicnovel #manga #action

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(julianlytle) with @d-pi ( @d3-14@gratnin )

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Interview with Josh O'Neil

Interview with Josh O’Neil

And I’m here with yet another cool comic creator interview! Josh O’Neil is here to tell us all about GratNin and it’s unique style and why he’s launched it as a Kickstarter, which went live yesterday, Marc h 16th. What brought about the idea for the accordion style pages? Part of our brand at Beehive is to take an inventive and unusual approach to design, production and presentation. GratNin…

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Ronald Wimberly’s GratNin Heads to Kickstarter With Beehive Books! @beehivebks #indie #comics http://ow.ly/c6lL50Ik89z

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INTERVIEW: Ron Wimberly Reveals Black History in Its Own Words

The Nib, home of political cartoons and nonfiction comics, approached comics artist Ron Wimberly in late 2014 about contributing a series of illustrations to their site for Black History Month in February of 2015 – “Black History in Its Own Words.” The primacy of the idea – illustrations of black Americans with a brief, punchy quote – sparked immediately with Wimberly, who overdelivered on his commitment and repeated the assignment the following year.

This February, again timed for Black History Month, Image Comics collects those twenty-four illustrations, complemented by fourteen new drawings fans have never seen before. In total, “Black History in Its Own Words” showcases 88 pages of Wimberly’s graphically striking portraits and strikingly chosen quotes, featuring luminaries from James Baldwin and George Herriman to Kanye West and Serena Williams.

CBR: When you were first approached about the idea of drawing the “Black History in Its Own Words” series on The Nib, what was the concept’s main appeal to you?

Ron Wimberly: It was simple: All I had to do was choose black luminaries who said great things and draw them. That was enough. Maybe the ease of the concept was part of the draw. I tend to challenge myself usually, but this was very straightforward; there’s no complex formal elements to the project.

You chose a wide variety of people, from all walks of life and across American history, for this series. What criteria went into your choices – and not only the people you selected, but the quotes you spotlighted?

I essentially just chose folks who popped out in my head. It wasn’t very difficult, I could probably do one a day for a year straight without repeating a person. I had only two criteria. I wanted to balance heady, iconic historical figures with figures who maybe had something to say or for whom their visibility was its own statement. My second goal was to show the richness of different walks and identities.

When you started the series and went looking for quotes, did any of the people involved surprise you? By that I mean, you weren’t expecting to include a certain person until you came across a quote that really resonated for you?

No, I haven’t done this long enough to be surprised. I have yet to get past the obvious choices. Some of these quotes I had remembered, and in cases where I hadn’t, I remembered that the figures had said interesting things. There have been a few figures whom I looked to quote who had quotes that I liked that weren’t succinct enough for the chosen format.

Is this series something you plan to continue?

“BHiOW”? Quite possibly.

When did the notion to put them together in a book first occur? How did Image get involved?

It was actually Eric Stephenson’s idea. It had never occurred to me; I was excited by the idea.

Race is, and has always been, a hugely contentious subject in this country. These drawings were all created prior to this year’s election, but what manner of impact does a moment like the 2106 election cycle and conclusion have on how you pursue race in your art?

Actually, I finished 14 of these during and after the election. …so before I answer your question I need to clarify. I don’t pursue race in my art. Race pursues me inside my life and career, and maybe I retaliate within my art on occasion, but, with rare exception, race is the dominant aspect of the lens with which people in comics view my work. This project started out no differently, for better or worse; it was a Black History Month job. I took it as an opportunity to celebrate exceptional people who are excluded from history eleven months of the year.

But to answer your question, in what manner of impact does a moment like the 2106 election cycle and conclusion have on how I pursue race in my art?

None at all.

I been on this. If any at all, it’s just a matter of degrees.

A lot of the gains recently made in rights for women and LGBTQ are at stake. Also the anti-Muslim rhetoric is alarming. But anti-blackness is a constant, the intensity ebbs and flows. So if it means anything to how I’ll deal with race in my art, maybe I will give more bandwidth to black women and to those who are both black and queer or Muslim. For some people it may seem like now we’ve crossed some major threshold in the conversation of race here in this country, but if you are black you have witnessed a constant onslaught on black bodies since you were born. Trump ain’t nothing new.

Last year, Image had announced two upcoming series from you – “Sunset Park” and “Slave Punk: White Coal”? Are those projects still being developed?

Yes.

What else do you have upcoming?

Stela still has “GratNin” comics from me that have yet to be released. I did some design for an animated project with LeSean Thomas.

Outside of that “Sunset Park” and “Slave Punk” are plenty to keep me busy. There will be little things that drop here and there, but I ain’t talking about anything else until it’s in the can.

I’d also like to shout out my signing events in D.C.: Fantom Comics on 2/15, 7-9pm; Columbus, Ohio: Columbus Museum of Art on 2/19, 1-4pm; Pittsburgh: Copacetic Comics on 2/22 from 6-8pm; and Rhode Island: RISD on 2/24 from 1:10–2:30pm(?).

“Black History in Its Own Words” is currently available��from Image Comics.

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GratNin Box Set just launched on Kickstarter Repost from @beehivebooks • Ninja have infiltrated NYC. For years, master cartoonist and storyteller @ronaldwimberly has been tracking their secret movements for years in the pageless pages of his epic saga Gratuitous Ninja. . Today, we launch an implausible project (link in bio or at beehivebooks.com/gratnin!): a 400-foot accordion-folded story scroll exploding this secret world into physical space. A sweeping, action-packed epic of warring ninja clans and street-level subterfuge that sprawls across the skyline and weaves through the subways of a fantastical yet all-too-real vision of the five boroughs and beyond. . Originally published as an endless scroll webcomic, GratNin has a unique dynamism that thwarts traditional publishing. So we’ve done what our team at Beehive does best: reimagine what a book can be. To give an analog spin to this unruly digital comic, we’ve traded out the tiny phone screens and web browsers for a 600-page multi-chapter accordion-folded concertina wrapping up the urban sprawl of NYC into a manifold paper world. Ninjas without borders. . This rare, unique special edition production also includes a number of ephemera items from in and around the world of GratNin, including character trading cards, a subway map showing the secret underground routes of the various ninja and pirate clans, a printed furoshiki cloth, a ninja union card, and much more. . Under New York’s shadows lies a city-within-the-city. GratNin is your ticket through the turnstiles. Join us now! . #ninja #webtoon #afropunk #tmnt #shounen #blerd #restorativejustice #jujutsu #ninjutsu #anime #nyc #animevibes #ninjascroll #ronaldwimberly #gratnin #kickstarter #comics #crowdfunding https://www.instagram.com/p/CbIX9q4uq9H/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Deep in the belly of Vernon C. Bain, Porgy and Bass face off against a mysterious old man. And back in Gowanus, Brooklyn, the KGMR chunin sneak into the dojo to replace the secret scrolls they "borrowed".

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:art::writing_hand::skin-tone-4: EXCLUSIVE RELEASE :clap: GRATNIN is back on Stela! #gratnin #ninja #comic #webtoon #indie #illustration #drawing #action #advebture #brooklyn #readinstyle #readstela #comix #ronaldwimberly GRATNIN is short for Gratuitous Ninja. KGMR stands for Kyoku-gen Muron-Ryu, a style of ninjutsu practiced by the now pacifist Namba family who run a karate/yoga-studio/farm/food co-op out of Gowanus Brooklyn. The Namba take in three local delinquents and teach them ninjutsu. When the new chunin break clan rules to fight a couple of local trap boys they wind up making more problems then they solve. How to get the comic? Download the Stela Unlimited app here: -iOS: http://bit.ly/2eQc4om -Android: http://bit.ly/2f14Idm

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🙌🏾👺 #gratnin

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Did you know there's a neglected #GratNin tumblr out there? Might not be neglected for far too long.