Artist and Art Director Eric Battle talks about “BLAM!”, A graphic novel profiling fourteen Black historic Philadelphians

<div style="margin-bottom: 1.25em;"><img src="https://www.theartblog.org/wp-content/uploaded/2022/01/Artblog-Eric-Battle-Featured-Image-588x441.jpg" /></div>Roberta interviews Eric Battle, artist and Art Director of the new book, “BLAM! Black Lives Always Mattered,” a graphic novelization of the life stories of 14 Black Philadelphians, illustrated by 12 illustrators and comics artists with connections to Philadelphia. The large hard-back book with many full-color pages is a project of Temple University Library's Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection. The book will be delivered to the city’s high school students and, in time, available to the public.