This Artist Transforms Spider-Man Comics Into Powerful Statements About Being Black in America

Spider-Man is one of the most easily-identifiable characters in comic book history, but when I recently received a message from a colleague about artist Kumasi J. Barnett’s paintings based on the character, I could barely recognize him. Instead, all I saw was myself and all of the other black men living in America who…

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Source: Gizmodo – This Artist Transforms Spider-Man Comics Into Powerful Statements About Being Black in America