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David F. Walker is an award-winning comic book writer, author, filmmaker, journalist, and educator. His work in comic books includes Shaft, winner of the 2015 Glyph Award for Story of the Year, Luke Cage; Occupy Avengers; Power Man and Iron Fist; Nighthawk; Fury; Secret Wars: Battleworld (Marvel Comics); Cyborg (DC Comics); The Army of Dr. Moreau; Tarzan on the Planet of the Apes (Dark Horse/Boom); and Number 13 (Dark Horse Comics). In 2015, he wrote the novel Shaft’s Revenge, the first new novel starring private detective John Shaft in nearly 40 years. Recognized as a leading scholar and expert on African-American cinema, who has been interviewed by such news outlets as The Los Angeles Times, New York Daily News, and BBC, Walker produced one of the definitive documentaries on the topic of Blaxploitation films. He lives in Portland, Oregon. His latest book is titled The Second Chance of Darius Logan.

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Heroes: Faith Schaffer, Maggie Tokuda-Hall, and David F. Walker

Portland Parks Foundation Park Tent 1010 SW Park Avenue, Portland, OR, United States

When an unlikely pair of female samurai join forces, what begins as your run-of-the-mill quest for glory and revenge evolves into something much more complicated in the new graphic novel from author Maggie Tokuda-Hall and illustrator Faith Schaffer. David F. Walker shares a remarkable story about justice and second chances and all the ways we can make our own world in the image of our dreams. Moderated by Jonathan Hill.