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Jacque Aye
Jacque Aye is a Nigerian-American comic artist and writer. Her works are strongly inspired by Japanese anime and tend to have Black women protagonists. Early years Aye was born in Kansas and grew up in Dallas, where she spent time together with her older brother, with whom she first discovered anime by watching ''Sailor Moon'', which would go on to heavily influence her adult works. Career Aye founded the lifestyle brand ''Adorned by Chi'' in 2015. In 2018 she began publishing her webcomic, also titled ''Adorned By Chi''. It was inspired by works like ''Sailor Moon'' and the Igbo culture of Nigeria, just like the positive representation of Black people in animes like ''Tiger & Bunny'', ''Michiko to Hatchin'' and ''Afro Samurai'', and like other independent Western projects with a magical girl theme. The graphic novel edition was funded by Kickstarter. Her second work was ''The Magical Girl's Guide to Life,'' published with Ulysses Press. It is an adult nonfiction book abo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kansas
Kansas ( ) is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders Nebraska to the north; Missouri to the east; Oklahoma to the south; and Colorado to the west. Kansas is named after the Kansas River, in turn named after the Kaw people, Kansa people. Its List of capitals in the United States, capital is Topeka, Kansas, Topeka, and its List of cities in Kansas, most populous city is Wichita, Kansas, Wichita; however, the largest urban area is the bi-state Kansas City metropolitan area split between Kansas and Missouri. For thousands of years, what is now Kansas was home to numerous and diverse Plains Indians, Indigenous tribes. The first settlement of non-indigenous people in Kansas occurred in 1827 at Fort Leavenworth. The pace of settlement accelerated in the 1850s, in the midst of political wars over the Slavery in the United States, slavery debate. When it was officially opened to settlement by the U.S. governm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venus Bambisa
Venus is the second planet from the Sun. It is often called Earth's "twin" or "sister" planet for having almost the same List of Solar System objects by size, size and mass, and the closest orbit to Earth's. While both are rocky planets, Venus has an Atmosphere of Venus, atmosphere much thicker and denser than Earth and any other rocky body in the Solar System. Its atmosphere is composed of mostly carbon dioxide (), with a global sulfuric acid cloud cover and no List of largest lakes and seas in the Solar System, liquid water. At the mean surface level the atmosphere reaches a temperature of and a atmospheric pressure, pressure 92 times greater than Earth's at sea level, turning the lowest layer of the atmosphere into a supercritical fluid. Venus is the List of brightest natural objects in the sky, third brightest object in Earth's sky, after the Moon and the Sun, and, like Mercury (planet), Mercury, appears always relatively close to the Sun, either as a "morning star" or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
