Writer/Actor Bianca Sams is coming to AfroComicCon
AfroComicCon welcomes writer and actor Bianca Sams as a Special Guests for the convention’s first virtual gathering!
Bianca Sams is a Writer/ Actor hailing from the San Francisco Bay Area. Her work spans different genres and mediums (Plays, Television, Novels and Feature films). Her original pieces are often described as lyrical investigations of found stories out of today’s headlines or the pages of history, that ask audiences to face their own complex love affair with misery. She’s drawn to stories that question the roles of women, ethnicity, and family in modern society. Her work often deals with the search for “self” in the collective identity and also explores the underlying connective threads of mankind.
Awards and honors include Ingram New Works Fellow (Nashville Rep), Warner Brothers TV Workshop, Tracking Board 2016 Young & Hungry List, WriteHerList 2017 and Tracking Board HIT LIST 2018. She previously worked as a writer on Training Day starring Bill Paxton, The Originals with Julie Plec & Jeffrey Lieber, and Titans for Warner Bros. She’s currently a Co-Producer on CW’s Charmed.
AfroComicCon‘s 1st virtual convention will be held on October 24, 2020. Due to COVID-19 concerns, the annual event started in 2017 by the Oakland Technology & Education Center (OTEC), will be held virtually and free through a portal on the organization’s website. Sponsored by the NNPA, the Oakland A’s, and Pixar Entertainment, AfroComicCon promises to be a day full of exciting panels, screenings, entertainment, gaming, cosplay and special guests. The 12-hour event is currently slated to be live-streamed across multiple platforms including YouTube, Twitch, and Facebook. You can register now.
A new week is here and we’ve got some interesting things lined up as always. While you await things to really kick off, here’s some comic news and reviews from around the web in our morning roundup.
Witchcraft since the beginning of time has been portrayed as dark magic, and its practitioners severely disfigured or geriatric. Recently, in the past few years, the term “witch hunt”, has been thrown around, or describe any overzealous mission, but its origin in the Salem Witch Trials remains its most eponymous. Then there are the more famous witches in popular culture, the ones that whose backstory recently updated in the excellent Toil and Trouble, the witches of Macbeth. My personal favorites are the witches, of Hocus Pocus because of the way they also highlighted the mythos, in a smart and irreverent manner.
