The form helped Crownson in his early reading years, but the power of the content has endured. ![]() I read a lot of comics at 6 and 7, then eventually got into novels-I was a big Animorphs person.” With comic books, the storytelling with pictures and the vibrant way of telling stories, it just jumped up at me. “I used to get kind of overwhelmed and bogged down by novels. “I was still trying to figure out how to read at 6 years old,” Crownson says. He named the company after his hometown, where he first fell in love with comics. Too, Crownson launched Kingwood Comics to publish the comic book, and to help other creatives tell diverse stories in the graphic novel form. Knowing he “couldn’t draw for shit,” Crownson worked with illustrator Courtland Ellis (and, eventually, others) on HT:DS, spending hours researching what Tubman would look like, what she would wear, how scenes should look, how characters should talk, etc., before injecting their comic-book sensibilities into the art-“Yes, we want to honor what the real person did, but at the end of the day she’s gonna beat up a demon so we don’t need to go that deep.” More than 600 supporters and over $20,000 in pledges later, the first three issues of Harriet Tubman: Demon Slayer are out (with three to go), and it’s now being turned into a live-action Disney series. Newly motivated, Crownson turned to crowdfunding to finance the book. Instead of something being silly, it became cathartic: racism being a demon and Harriet Tubman being the chosen one to destroy that.” “And so my comic book became something else. I kept seeing all over the news certain hate crimes were happening since Donald Trump became president, and I remember becoming angry. I just saw a bunch of dudes who were being antagonistic and racist toward this Muslim woman. “I just remember I was in a rural part of Jersey, I was sad, buying some food to eat my feelings. What a crazy ass time.’ The next day, everything was shitty, excuse my French,” Crownson says. ![]() Hilary Clinton’s gonna be president tomorrow, the world’s gonna be great, I can’t imagine Donald Trump was running for president. I think I was like, ‘I’m having trouble finding financing, I’m gonna chill and find something else. “I just remember that Trump was running for president.
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