John Jennings papers
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Title: John Jennings papers
Date (inclusive): 2016-2017
Collection Number: MS 082
Creator:
Jennings, John, 1970-
Extent:
3.13 linear feet
(2 boxes)
Repository:
Rivera Library. Special Collections Department.
Riverside, CA 92517-5900
Abstract: The collection consists of materials related to John Jennings' graphic novel adaptation of Octavia Butler's
Kindred.
Languages: The collection is in English.
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[identification of item], [date if possible]. John Jennings papers (MS 082). Special Collections & University Archives, University
of California, Riverside.
Gift of John Jennings, 2019.
John Jennings is a professor of Media and Cultural Studies at UC Riverside. He is also a comics illustrator and the founder
and curator of the
ABRAMS Megascope imprint of graphic novels. He received a BA from Jackson State University in 1993, a Master of Arts in Art Education from
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1995 as well as a Master of Fine Arts in Graphic Design, also from UI, in 1997.
Professor Jennings won Eisner awards in 2016 and 2018 as well as a Bram Stoker award in 2017.
The collection consists of original illustrations, storyboards and sketches created by Jennings for the 2017 graphic novel
adaptation of Octavia Butler's "Kindred"; Also posters and a signed copy from 2015 SolCon (The Brown and Black Comix Expo)
See also the John Jennings papers in the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University:
John Jennings papers
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the
library's online public access catalog.
Butler, Octavia E., 1947-2006
Graphic novels
SÕL-CON
Drafts (documents)
Drawings (visual works)