DEFIANT: THE ROBERT SMALLS STORY PANEL
Friday, July 26 | 3:30 – 4:30pm | Room 6A in the San Diego Convention Center
As an enslaved harbor pilot at the height of the Civil War, Robert Smalls pulled off the most audacious heist in history by commandeering a Confederate warship, disguising himself as the captain, filling it with family and friends to run the naval blockade to freedom in the North. He then became a naval war hero whose example helped convince Abraham Lincoln to accept African American soldiers into the Union Army. And that was only the beginning of the extraordinary life of Robert Smalls.
Join graphic novel writer Rob Edwards (screenwriter of the Academy Award® nominated film The Princess and The Frog), producer Marvin Jones III (Black Lightning, Halo), and artist Ray-Anthony Height (Studio SKYE-TIGER), Sebastian A. Jones of Stranger Comics and more as they talk about the process of adapting Small’s amazing story to graphic novel form.
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