Deirdre Hollman

Deirdre Hollman is the founder of The Black Comics Collective, a live events, digital, educational, and publishing forum for “connecting comic creators of color with the communities that crave them”. The Black Comics Collective celebrates cultural diversity in comics and seeks to amplify awareness of creators, writers, illustrators, and publishers who are producing independent and small press comics that depict a dynamic range of global black experiences, aesthetics, and social issues in both earthly and other-worldly realms. Deirdre co-founded the Black Comic Book Festival at the Schomburg Center in 2012 in Harlem which has drawn over seventy-five-thousand fans to Harlem over the past ten years. The Black Comics Collective curated and co-presented the Black Comix Expo at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 2018 and 2019, as well as Kwanzaa Con at the American Museum of Natural History in 2019. Deirdre is an afrofuturist educator with over twenty years of experience engaging teachers and teens in the study of black history, art, and culture. She served as Director of Education and Exhibitions at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture for fifteen years and is now a doctoral student at Teachers College, Columbia University. Deirdre and the Black Comics Collective have literary representation from Serendipity Literary Agency.