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DESCRIPTION:Join us for a conversation with filmmaker and graphic novelist James 
 Spooner about his latest graphic novel, moderated by cartoonist Johnny 
 Damm. It Starts with Anger: A Punk Beginning. An AFROPUNK Ending tells the 
 origin story of the multi-million-dollar AFROPUNK festival—beginning not 
 with big stages or brand sponsorship, but with one mixed-race teenager’s 
 search for belonging in the nineties New York City punk scene.\n\nRSVP to 
 receive a link to view Afro-Punk (2003, dir. James Spooner) before the 
 event.\n\nhttps://tinyurl.com/SpoonerNov13\n\nThe conversation will be 
 followed by a book signing by Spooner. Local author and punk historian John 
 Malkin will also be signing his new book, Punk Spirit! – An Oral History 
 of Punk Rock, Spirituality, and Liberation, and Johnny Damm will have his 
 latest comic, I’m a Cop: Real Life Horror Comics No. 3 also 
 available.\n\nJames Spooner is an award winning graphic novelist, filmmaker 
 and tattoo artist.  His debut graphic novel, The High Desert  was named 
 “Best of 2022” by Publishers Weekly, The Washington Post and The New 
 York Public Library. The High Desert is the 2023 recipient of the American 
 Library Association’s Alex Award and the Cartoonist Studio Prize. Spooner 
 co-edited an anthology of Black punk writers and comic creators entitled, 
 Black Punk Now. Available now, the book was named in the top 10 Music Books 
 of 2023 by Pitchfork, top 5 Music Books from the Guardian and received a 
 Kirkus star. Pantheon has acquired his  forthcoming book It Starts With 
 Anger, set for publication in Aug of 2026. He was recently commissioned to 
 adapt a story  by the Scottish Book Trust and is  regular contributor to 
 RazorCake Magazine.  \n\nSpooner directed the seminal documentary Afro-Punk 
 which premiered at national and international film festivals, including 
 Toronto International and The American Black Film Festival. James also 
 co-founded the AfroPunk Festival, which currently boasts audiences in the 
 hundreds of thousands around the world. Spooner’s work has been recounted 
 in various publications, including NPR, The Los Angeles Times, Vice, The 
 Village Voice, The New Yorker, MTV, NBC News and Variety. He was a 
 recipient of the ReNew Media Rockefeller Grant. He is a guest curator for 
 the Broad Museum in Los Angeles and the Punk Rock Museum in Las Vegas and 
 previously programmed for the Brooklyn Academy of Music. James continues to 
 screen Afro-Punk around the world, giving talks on punk, comics and Black 
 identity.\n\nJohnny Damm’s comics include “I’m a Cop”: Real-Life 
 Horror Comics, which has been featured in The Washington Post, Boing Boing, 
 and In These Times and named in The Comics Journal’s best comics of the 
 year. Damm is also the author of the acclaimed graphic novels Failure 
 Biographies and The Science of Things Familiar, both published by The 
 Operating System. His comics, prose, and visual poetry have appeared in 
 Guernica, Poetry, The Offing, and elsewhere. He lives in Santa Cruz, 
 California.\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2026/10/20/18889551.php
SUMMARY:James Spooner in conversation with Johnny Damm on AFROPUNK, anger, and other things
LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences, 100 Panetta Ave, Santa Cruz 
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2026/10/20/18889551.php
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