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Lena Jackson owns many hats in the visual arts community. She is an artist, stage performer, author and businesswoman, but presently the cartoonist within her is standing out.
The cartoon industry may be a "No Girls Allowed" kind of club, but at age 7, Jackson realized she wanted to be a cartoonist. "I remember being at Eastland Mall, it was 1970-something and a white guy with the Bob Ross afro was doing caricatures around Easter. What got me was how he took a regular-looking person and turned them into cartoon. I remember thinking, 'Wow I want to do that.'"
She was hired to do a comic book for the nonprofit organization Holla as a way to advocate teen literacy through comic books. "Having characters that dress how they dress, use vernacular that you hear on the street, colloquialism we use in the African-American and other minority communities, will hopefully get their attention."
Jackson lived in NoDa for a while and decided to do an adult comic book entitled Bohemian Café. "There wasn't anything in the comic book stores with characters that look like me and dealt with the kind of life I lived and people I saw."
Bohemian Café will premiere in May, but no definite date is set. "Right now there isn't a voice for black women in comics and I intend to have my say."
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