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  • Descriptive Summary
  • Access
  • Publication Rights
  • Preferred Citation
  • Acquisition Information
  • Biographical Note
  • Collection Scope and Contents
  • Related Materials
  • Indexing Terms

  • Descriptive Summary

    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.

    Access

    This collection is unprocessed. Please contact Special Collections & University Archives regarding the availability of materials for research use.

    Publication Rights

    Copyright has not been assigned to the University of California, Riverside Libraries, Special Collections & University Archives. Distribution or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. To the extent other restrictions apply, permission for distribution or reproduction from the applicable rights holder is also required. Responsibility for obtaining permissions, and for any use rests exclusively with the user.

    Preferred Citation

    [identification of item], [date if possible]. John Jennings papers (MS 082). Special Collections & University Archives, University of California, Riverside.

    Acquisition Information

    Gift of John Jennings, 2019.

    Biographical Note

    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.

    Collection Scope and Contents

    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)

    Related Materials

    See also the John Jennings papers in the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University: John Jennings papers 

    Indexing Terms

    The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.

    Subjects

    Butler, Octavia E., 1947-2006
    Graphic novels
    SÕL-CON

    Genres and Forms of Materials

    Drafts (documents)
    Drawings (visual works)