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BOSTON (WBZ NewsRadio) — The Boston Comics in Color Festival kicked off its third annual event on Saturday to celebrate Black comics.
The festival includes a fashion show featuring comic book characters of color. The event is the first New England comics festival that features and amplifies work by and about people of color.
Tem Blessed is one of the 50 comic book vendors at the event. He said he believes representation matters, which makes this event so special.
"Human beings need to see themselves being prosperous, doing well, being successful, and that, as we know, helps the next generation," Tem Blessed told WBZ's Suzanne Sausville.
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Cagen Luse, co-founder of Comics in Color, said they are proud to see so many successful people of color at the festival. They were inspired to create the Boston event after attending one in New York.
"When I stand up on that stage and look out at all the beautiful faces of the people selling the comics as well as buying the comics and enjoying themselves it makes my heart as big as the world," Luse said." I just feel so good."
WBZ's Sausville met 11-year-old Nile Hennick at the festival. Hennick was there selling comics he created with his dad.
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