At age 6, Addonis Parker was gifted a drawing pad, two thick number two pencils and crayons. He let his imagination run wild — drawing Black superheros modeled after ones he saw in the Marvel and D.C. comic books.
He kept his drawings hidden from his peers, who were mostly white at that time. He was worried they would tease him for creating a universe of heroes. He created a version of Captain America that looked like him. “I put a Black man in a flag with muscles. I wanted to see me in a place of power,” he told the Herald.
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