What's a Nubian?

Comic blogger Rich Watson has kicked off a new column over at Buzzscope called What's a Nubian?:

Some of you may know me from my weekly column, “Chicks and Romance”, at Comic World News. Earlier this year, I started a blog devoted to covering black comics and creators called Glyphs Online, and it was through it that I met Guy, who offered me this column. Each month, I’ll talk about which black-themed comics are coming out the following month.

He spends his first column talking about fans of color:

Wasn’t it cool to see Will Smith fight aliens in Independence Day and Men in Black? Did you dig Wesley Snipes mowing down vampires in the Blade movies? Didn’t Laurence Fishburne totally rock in the Matrix trilogy? If you’re black and you answered yes to any or all of these, you may be more of a genre geek than you realized. And that’s nothing to be ashamed of these days.

Of course, movies are one thing, comics are another – and while the stigma behind them is slowly beginning to fade, it still exists for many. I go to conventions and almost every time, I’m one of a handful of fans of color in attendance. I go to comic shops and it’s the same thing. I know there are others like me, though. I’ve met some of them in person and others online; hung out with them, had discussions with them. So I’m convinced we exist within the ranks of Fandom Assembled. But you know what the funny thing about us is?

We’re anomalies. Aberrations.

Interesting stuff; go check it out.