Roundup of Blog Posts about Ta-Nehisi Coates and Black Panther

I was pleased when the folks at my publisher, Bloomsbury Publishing, invited me to contribute a blog post, "From bestseller to superhero: The impact of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Marvel debut," connected to my upcoming book, Writing Black Panther: Ta-Nehisi Coates and Representation Struggles. Here's a roundup of posts I've produced on Coates and Black Panther since the September 22, 2015 announcement that he'd take on the comic book.

2026

• May 4: Roundup of Blog Posts about Ta-Nehisi Coates and Black Panther

• May 3: Star Wars for Black People

• April 21: Writing Black Panther (Trailer 3)

• April 21: Writing Black Panther (Trailer 2)

• April 21: Writing Black Panther (Trailer 1)

• April 21: Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Black Panther: Podcast and Video Series

• March 3: The Value of Merging Comics Studies and African American Literary Studies

• March 3: 5 Reasons to Read a Book on Black Panther

• February 23: The Origins of Writing Black Panther

2023

• August 5: Cornelius Eady, Ta-Nehisi Coates, poems, and a comic book arc

• June 20: The Black Panther #1 Variant Covers

• June 20: Black Panther #1 Audio-image Gallery

2019

• October 11: Ta-Nehisi Coates, Bryan Hill, black men, and diversity in comics

• September 28: Ta-Nehisi Coates, Colson Whitehead, and Remarkable Receptions
• June 21: Ta-Nehisi Coates, reparations testimony, and the art of direct address
• February 26: Ta-Nehisi Coates, Remarkable Receptions, and Black Book History

2018
• December 17: A checklist of comics by black writers and artists in 2018

• July 27: Black movie heroes read Ta-Nehisi Coates
• July 4: Coverage of Captain America, Ta-Nehisi Coates
• March 3: Early Coverage of Ta-Nehisi Coates as new Captain America writer

2017
• December 6: Coverage on another, different run of the Black Panther

• October 3: Preparing to read Colson Whitehead and Ta-Nehisi Coates with collegiate black men

2016
• December 29: Teaching an African American Literature course on Ta-Nehisi Coates in fall 2016
• December 28: A roundup of 25 Covers for Black Panther #1
• December 28: Black Panther #1 variant cover by Dale Keown
• November 22: A roundup of 24 Different Covers for Black Panther #1
• November 21: Black Panther #1 variant covers by Greg Horn and Pasqual Ferry
• November 21: Black Panther #1 regular cover by Brian Stelfreeze
• November 21: Black Panther #1 & 50th Anniversary variant cover by Felipe Smith
• November 21: Black Panther #1 cover by Todd Nauck
• November 20: Black Panther #1 variant covers by Gabriele Dell'Otto

• September 3: Ta-Nehisi Coates, Reginald Hudlin & Black Panther

• August 16: An African American literature course on Ta-Nehisi Coates
• August 14: Sanford Greene's Black Panther variant covers

• August 1: Black Panther #1 variant cover by Neal Adams
• July 31: Black Panther #1 variant cover by Larry Stroman
• July 29: Black Panther #1 variant cover by Olivier Coipel 
• July 29: Black Panther #1 variant cover
• July 28: Black Panther #1 blank variant cover
• July 28: Black Panther #1 Comic Bug exclusive variant cover

• July 24: Coverage of Roxane Gay, Ta-Nehisi Coates & Black Panther
• July 19: Black Panther #1 KABAM Game/Disney Infinity variant cover
• July 19: Black Panther #1 variant cover by Alex Ross 
• July 18: Black Panther #1 negative space variant cover
• July 18: Black Panther #1 Midtown Comics exclusive variant cover 
• July 17: Black Panther Marvel Collector Corps variant cover 
• July 12: Skottie Young's Black Panther kitten variant cover 
• July 11: Brian Stelfreeze's T'Challa as scientist variant cover
• July 11: Ta-Nehisi Coates's commentary on Black Panther from The Atlantic
• July 8: Brian Stelfreeze's Black Panther, Jay Z hip-hop variant cover 

• July 2: A Notebook on Black Panther

• July 11: Ta-Nehisi Coates's commentary on Black Panther from The Atlantic

• July 2: List of Black Panther variants and artists

• June 29: Henry Dumas, the Black Panther comic book, and Ta-Nehisi Coates  
• May 29: Black men writers and creativity, 1995 - 2016
• May 22: Variant covers for Black Panther #1
• April 26: Notations for a common reading experience of Ta-Nehisi Coates 
• April 5: Coverage of Ta-Nehisi Coates & Brian Stelfreeze’s Black Panther 

2015
• September 22: Announcing Ta-Nehisi Coates as New Black Panther Writer

Related:

• Book Notes: Writing Black Panther