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INDIE NEW MEDIA FILM-MAKER EXPLAINS EXCITEMENT, RESTRICTIONS + MEANING OF HIS MISSION DeWayne Copeland is a new-media indie filmmaker who embodies the Marcus Garvey ethic of “do for self.” With co-creator and series writer-director Scott F Evans , Copeland and their agile team launched CV Nation in 2012, and have produced a first season of six episodes and a second season of four. The CV in CV Nation means “costumed vigilantes,” because the show is about superheroes and villains fighting for dominance in a world in which paranormal powers are merely expensive but highly dangerous commodities. The series is a breakthrough not only for its indie aesthetics and production, but because it’s largely about superheroes and villains of African descent .  Copeland and Evans didn’t wait around for someone else to do what they and so many others had been craving for years—they just did it themselves. DeWayne Copeland is a remarkable artist, and a down-to-eart...

I'm proud to announce that my 2007 political satire From the Notebooks of Doctor Brain has been awarded the Carl Brandon Society Kindred Award . My congratulations go out also to Ss. Nnedi Okorafor who won the Carl Brandon Society Parallax Award for her novel The Shadow Speaker . THE AUTHORS SAY: ROBERT SAWYER, Hugo Award-winning author of Hominids “Minister Faust does it again: an outlandish, outrageous tour de force by the most innovative prose stylist in the field, bar none.” COREY REDEKOP, author of Shelf Monkey “Faust’s novel stands equal to such classics [as Watchmen and Dark Knight].” CHARLES SAUNDERS, author of Imaro “Pure satire... laugh-out-loud comedy. Superhero parodies have been done before. So have dysfunctional super-beings, ranging from Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four to the Watchmen. But nobody has done it as well as the Minister. If Richard Pryor had ever written science fiction, he might have come up with something like Doctor Brain.... Minister Faust is sh...