BLAQ COMIX

An imprint of Marc Joy Media · Seattle

Independent Black comics, direct from the creator. Our titles run in the funnies pages of The Weekly Dispatch, where new stories earn their full runs in front of readers. No gatekeepers. No focus groups. Just the work.

Flagship Titles

Now serializing

The core of the imprint. Follow each title's run in The Weekly Dispatch.

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BLAQDUST: Lord of the Vibration

The universe was built from rhythm. Now a silent empire wants to erase every sound it cannot monetize.

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blaqvox

A pirate broadcaster with a voice that awakens suppressed memories hijacks the airwaves of a city where silence is marketed as peace.

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blaqxel

In a universe built from living pixels, an unfinished background character escapes his assigned scene and begins stealing pieces of other people's stories.

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From the Pilot Desk

Reader response decides

Two pages apiece, on trial in the Dispatch funnies. The titles readers ask for get full runs.

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404: The Kid Who Couldn't Be Erased

After a predictive government deletes him from every database, a teenage hacker discovers that being officially nonexistent lets him move through the hidden machinery controlling society.

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Negromancer of the Ninth Realm

A Black mortician who can summon ancestral memories is dragged into a supernatural conflict when the dead refuse to stay buried until their stolen names are returned.

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MOONDAZE: We Burn in Public

On a moon colony where emotional expression is a dangerous energy leak, a crew of young artists stages illegal public dreams that begin transforming the sterile city.

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The full catalog, thirteen more pilots deep, runs every Sunday in the funnies pages of The Weekly Dispatch. Read them all and tell us which deserve a run.

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