The Ormes Society is an online group that promotes black women who work in the comic book industry.
[1] Eaton was upset by the comic book industry's lack of diversity and wanted to help support black women and fans.
[2] She named the organization after Jackie Ormes, a pioneer African-American comic illustrator and America’s first black female professional cartoonist.
[1] It was briefly rebooted a year later [5] but as of 2021 it appears to be defunct once again as its website is gone and its social media has not been updated since 2017.
[6] Members of the group included Charlie Trotman, Carol Burrell, Afua Richardson and Alitha Martinez.