We are very grateful to all journalists, bloggers, supporters, and fans who have taken the time to talk with us and discuss or highlight our work over the years. Here are some clips of media interviews and news about DUKEScomics.
DUKEScomics invited to speak and facilitate a comics workshop with Jack and Jill of America, Inc.
Thank you to Jack and Jill of America, Inc., El Paso-Southern New Mexico Chapter, for inviting DUKEScomics to speak with your students about being a C.E.O. and business practices, as well as sharing our personal journey. We had a great time. See you all again soon. Thank you for the awards!
Announcing: DUKEScomics MENTOR PROGRAM
The DUKEScomics Mentor Program is thrilled to announce our first mentee comic book launch. Meet 14-year-old Marcos, a high school student from El Paso. Dr. E.C. and Ronnie Dukes worked with Marcos for 9 months, and now his comic book is ready for its world premiere. We will be hosting a special event to unveil Marcos’s comic on May 3rd, 2025. More details to come. Congratulations to Marcos and his family for such an exciting accomplishment! For more information about the DUKEScomics Mentor Program, please message us through our website DUKEScomics.com.
Introducing DUKEScomics TEACHING ARTISTS at EPMA Museum School
Watch this video to learn more about the El Paso Museum of Art Museum School Comics Camp with Teaching Artists Dukes Comics!
New Mexico Book Association News Blog: Get to Know – DUKEScomics
Click on the link “Get to Know – DUKEScomics” or the image to access this online article.
DUKEScomics awarded 2024 International Latino Book Award Silver Medal Award Winning Author
Soldier Con Night 1 with Dukes Comics
DUKEScomics receives the 2024 Outstanding Emerging BIPOC Creator Award presented by Latinx Pop Lab, Ad Astra Media, and UT English for Comics, Animation, Education, and Outreach
Dr. E.C.-Dukes published in Label Me Latina/o 2024 Special Issue Volume 14: Latinx Graphic Novels.
Dr. E.C.-Dukes’s piece is called “Creating and Teaching Latino/a Comics: a Case Exploration of Daizee & the Dukes of Chuco: Chuco-Juárez World Rally” featuring artwork by Ronnie Dukes with Editors Frederick Luis Aldama, Guest Editor, and Lorna L. Pérez, Special Issues Editor, and Michele Shaul and Melissa Birkhofer, editors of Label me Latina.
This is the link to the article online:
https://labelmelatin.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Elvira-Carrizal-Dukes-Creating-and-Teaching-Latinoa-Comics.pdf.
You can also click on the image below for access to the online article.
DUKEScomics presented
with Vanguard Arts and Entertainment Business of the Year Award
by Black El Paso Voice
E.C. Dukes ~ A Graphic Novel Combines Sci-Fi, Cars, and Social Justice
Drawing the Future: An Interview with the Creators of DUKEScomics for GLASSTIRE {Texas Visual Art} by Jessica Fuentes
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El Paso-inspired comic book company highlights borderland, BIPOC characters
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American Library Association Graphic Novels & Comics Round Table interview by Matthew Nole with DUKEScomics 2023
ShoutOut L.A. Interview
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Latinx Comic Arts Festival
Creators Discussion
COMICS PLUS! by Akasan
Interview (Tokyo)
El Paso Black Expo
Interview
Pam Perry P.R.
Interview
Black Superheroes Matter
Interview
Ronnie Dukes first sketchcover done for an El Paso Comic Con fan 2017
This is a photo of the first sketchcover illustrated by Ronnie Dukes at the El Paso Comic Con in 2017. It’s an image of Deadpool as an El Paso Ghostbuster with the El Paso Ghostbuster behind him. He’s being haunted by Slimer who is the ghost of President Tr*mp.
An Interview with Ronnie Dukes
Click on the image to read this interview from May 3, 2012.
Comic Con 2012 Chicago: Where popular culture, art and costumery meet commerce
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RONNIE DUKES, artist
Columbia University, Manhattan, New York 2004 Black Routes – Solo Exhibition
Video shot and edited by Elvira Carrizal-Dukes