Afrotracts

Solidarity in Pandemonium, provides facts on COVID-19, pandemic safety, and illustrates the importance of vaccination, against an afrofuturist backdrop featuring time travel and rebirth.

In Liberator, a tragedy sends an accountant on a journey of grief and growth through pro-wrestling, family legacy, and organizing. Liberator is a narrative story that pays homage to the visual style of underground comix to providing a connection with the life and practice of an activist and Black liberation history.

In Civic Ecology, a journalist in a techno-optimist future gives us a tour of an experimental neighborhood in Akron, Ohio. Civic Ecology uses the writing style and visual motif of a neighborhood arts magazine to tell a story about reparations, climate justice, and the importance of the vote.

During the pandemic, we began crafting a series of afrofuturist mini-comics, or “Afrotracts(!)”. Topics of the tracts include COVID-19 safety and preparedness, grassroots organizing, racial justice activism, voting, reparations, and civic responsibility. Since the 1960’s comics as tracts have been debated, collected, satirized and loved, becoming a pop-culture phenomenon.

Conjure Comics contributes to this long legacy of widely distributing religious pamphlets by reinterpreting the format through an anti-racist and progressive lens.

In this time of misinformation and book banning we feel it’s more important than ever to provide connection to factual sources and info. So, each 22 page, 6×4, perfect bound tract features a QR code leading to resources, a reading list, and vetted organizations for that topic, making them a powerful tool for spreading good ideas as well as advocacy work.