“In comics there are two kinds of Black people: Shaft or Sidney Poitier” — Dwayne McDuffie.
A trailer for Jonathan Gayles’ documentary movie on Black masculinity in comics, which came out last year. Its site has a great selection of takes from the movie, to give you an idea of what it’s about. Lots of talking heads of course, but the subject itself is interesting enough for this to not matter. Since it seems to currently do the rounds of various film festivals, it’s not available to buy yet, but I’ll certaintly keep an eye out for it once it does come out on dvd. Especially when the teasers promise things like the influence of the P-Funk mythology might have had on superhero comics and vice versa.
(There was at least one comics writer funky enough to know about George Clinton, Bootsy and Bernie Worrell, Peter B. Gillis, who would Tuckerise them as the founders of A.I.M. in, IIRC, an issue of Supervillain Team-up.)
When I first got into that P-funk cosmic mythology a few years backs, the images that the music put to mind where all pure Kirby. If P-Funk had ever been put into comics, Kirby at his most seventies extravagant would’ve been ideal for it.