Afua Richardson

[1][2] Her comic, Genius, with writers Marc Bernardin and Adam Freeman[3] won Top Cow's 2008 Pilot Season.

She was one of a small group of African American women artists who were employed by the "big two" comic publishers at the time she entered the industry.

[14] She was a backup singer, a beatboxer, a background dancer on MTV Jams and appeared in an off-Broadway show with Melvin Van Peebles.

[19][20] For the comic book series, Genius (2007), she worked with writers Marc Bernardin and Adam Freeman to tell the story through the voice of a black woman, Destiny Ajaye.

[22] She portrays Ajaye's thought processes and David Brothers called it "instantly understandable and worthy of poring over.