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Comic book writer Brandon Easton ’s original graphic novel Shadowlaw received an Eisner Award nomination for Best Single Issue and won the East Coast Black Age of Comics (or ECBAC) Glyph Award for Best Writer. For scripting Watson and Holmes #6, Easton won three Glyph Awards, including Fan Award, Story of the Year, and Best Writer. He’s also written Miles Away, Roboy, The Joshua Run, and Arkanium, the motion comic Armarauders , and a bio-graphic novel about pro-wrestler Andre the Giant. In addition to being the documentary film-maker behind Brave New Souls: Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Writers of the 21st Century , Easton is a screenwriter who’s worked on Transformer Rescue Bots and the 2011 reboot of ThunderCats . In part 2 of our conversation, we discuss: Easton’s experience of the US educational system in Baltimore as a student and in New York City as a teacher Why he concluded the system was broken How he attempted to improve kids’ lives and how tho...

Screen animation and comic book writer Brandon Easton has written for the animated series Transformer Rescue Bots and the 2011 reboot of ThunderCats, and for comics including Shadowlaw, Watson & Holmes, Miles Away, Roboy, The Joshua Run , and Arkanium , and the motion comic Armarauders . He’s also authored a bio-graphic novel about pro-wrestler Andre the Giant. News outlets such as Forbes and Wired have noted Easton’s work, and so have awards juries. Easton's original graphic novel Shadowlaw received a 2014 Best Single Issue nomination from the Eisner Comic Industry Award. In 2014, the East Coast Black Age of Comics, or ECBAC, gave Easton three Glyph Awards, including Fan Award, Story of the Year, and Best Writer, for scripting Watson and Holmes #6, and in 2013, the Best Writer Glyph for Shadowlaw . Easton is also the documentary film-maker behind Brave New Souls: Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Writers of the 21st Century. Easton spoke with me on Dece...