Zine Pavilion Spotlight: Ajuan Mance
Ajuan Mance is a visual artist and a professor of African American literature at Mills College in Oakland, California. She holds a B.A. from Brown University and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. The creator of the 1001 Black Men online sketchbook, she has shown her paintings and drawings in individual and group exhibitions around the San Francisco Bay Area. She is the creator and publisher of several zines and comics, including A Blues for Black Santa, Gender Studies, The Little Book of Big, Black Bears, and 1001 Black Men. Ajuan publishes her zines and comics under her independent 8-Rock Press imprint. Her paintings, drawings, and illustrations have appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, Contra Costa Times, Transition Magazine, Mission at Tenth, Rad Dad Magazine, Oregon Quarterly and other publications.