Eric Jerome Dickey the Year (Blackbirds), and 2017 Author of the Year (Finding Gideon) as part of Yvette Hayward's African American Literary Awards Show held in the mecca of publishing, New York City. It is the only ongoing literary awards show that recognizes griots from the diaspora. Eric Jerome Dickey was named Distinguished Lecturer of the Leimert Park Village Book Fair, August 2018. Dickey is the author of the graphic novel "Storm", which re-imagines the first meeting between the popular X-Men character Ororo Munroe and T'Challa, king of the fictional land of Wakanda known as the Black Panther. He performed stand-up comedy, mostly
X-Men Forever began its run on June 10, 2009. It ran semimonthly as a regular title, set in an alternate continuity of the Marvel Universe. This second series is unrelated to the earlier series by the same name. The series, written by veteran "X-Men" author Chris Claremont, was originally advertised as a continuation of the storylines he intended for "Uncanny X-Men" and "X-Men" in 1991, but which never saw print because of his resignation from the title and Marvel Comics following "X-Men" #3. Despite the original billing as what "would have been written" by Claremont had he never left, the series quickly