John Jennings is a Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California at Riverside. Jennings is co-editor of the Eisner Award-winning collection THE BLACKER THE INK: CONSTRUCTION OF THE BLACK IDENTITY IN COMICS AND SEQUENTIAL ART. Jennings is also a 2016 Nasir Jones Hip Hop Studies Fellow with the Hutchins Center at Harvard University. Jennings' current projects include the horror anthology BOX OF BONES, the coffee table book Black Comix Returns (with Damian Duffy), and the Eisner-winning, Bram Stoker Award-winning, New York Times best-selling graphic novel adaptation of Octavia Butler's classic dark fantasy novel KINDRED. Duffy and Jennings recently released their graphic novelization of Octavia Bulter's prescient dystopian novel PARABLE OF THE SOWER (Abrams ComicArts). Jennings is also founder and curator of the ABRAMS Megascope line of graphic novels.