Aug 30, 2017
At San Diego Comic-Con 2017, we were lucky enough to catch up with Ureaus, creator of the "Black Heroes Matter" movement, just minutes after the Black Heroes Matter flash mob.
We first met Uraeus at SDCC 2016, when we hosted an artist meet and greet for some of our favorite artists. He is a Maryland based writer and created Black Heroes Matter movement after feeling a need to bring awareness of how important minority representation is within the pop culture and comic book worlds, especially after the recent events of the past couple of years.
The movement has experienced incredible growth, Uraeus only brought about 20 “Black Heroes Matter” shirts to last year's Comic-Con. After just one year, Black Heroes Matter has started to garner national and international attention.
On this episode, some of the topics we discussed were the importance of San Diego Comic-Con and how it’s such a great opportunity to network, how his trip to Egypt in 2004 inspired him to start his own comic book creation journey, his other projects – such as his adapted screenplay for his comic, Indigo which is currently being shopped around, and of course Black Heroes Matter where you can “make a statement without saying a word.” Enjoy!