Persona Creata: Street-Wise Super-Hero
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Persona Creata: Street-Wise Super-Hero
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Description
Photos and biographical article about Alonzo Washington, 30-year-old black creator (writer, artist, and publisher) of the Omega Man super-hero character of comic books and action figure in Kansas City, Kansas. Also a community activist with "Kansas City's Ad Hoc Group Against Crime" and featured in Newsweek magazine and on "an HBO piece called '27th and Prospect,' about the fight against substance abuse in Kansas City."
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Creator Name
Creator: Metzler, Jill
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Date(s)
1998-01
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Subject (local)
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Digital Collection(s)
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Related Item
Kansas City Persona
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Note(s)
Page 45: "Omega Man is an African American character, and Washington designed him to be distinctive. ..Washington is the largest independent publicher of comic books featuring black heroes, and last year, his 22 comic book titles approached one million copies sold."
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Shelf Locator
q977.8411 K1626
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Restriction on Access
This document is not available online. You may come to the Missouri Valley Room to view it or request a photocopy from the Library's Document Delivery service. http://www.kclibrary.org/copy-requests
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