Nick Tomb’s Superb Graphic Novel Will Be Showcased at the 2023 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books
Readers embark on a thrilling adventure in Nick Tombs superhero universe, filled with non-stop action and a message of environmental awareness for the worlds oceans.
San Diego, CA 92131 – WEBWIRE – Friday, March 31, 2023
Nick Tombs Graphic Novel The Adventures of Maritime Domain Awareness Man absolutely zings with action, capturing all the mystery of the ocean in stunning color and cartoon format. – Kitty Pilgrim – Journalist/Author
The great action and adventure graphic novel The Adventures of Maritime Domain Awareness Man: Issue #1 by Nick Tomb will be displayed by self-publishing and book marketing company ReadersMagnet at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. The literary festival will take place on April 22-23, 2023, at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA.
Prepare to be swept away on a thrilling adventure that delves into the depths of the worlds oceans with the newest addition to the superhero universe: Maritime Domain Awareness Man.
The Adventures of Maritime Domain Awareness Man aims to spread awareness about the many challenges and opportunities faced by the worlds oceans, focusing on inspiring younger generations to take action and protect the planets most precious natural resource. The tale begins with MDAMs origin story and his blossoming friendship with a girl who shares his passion for ocean conservation.
Written by the talented author Nick Tomb and beautifully illustrated by Leti Arts, this graphic novel follows the journey of MDAM in West Africa, who possesses the remarkable power to know everything that happens in the sea.
Future issues of this must-read book will explore the problems and solutions that the world, its people, and the oceans face. Inspired by the incredible work done to protect the seas and develop sustainable economic opportunities, the book seeks to edutain readers and encourage them to think about the impact of their actions on global waters.
This graphic novel promises to entertain, educate, and inspire readers of all ages.
Join Maritime Domain Awareness Man and his band of heroic allies as they embark on a mission to protect the oceans and preserve the planets beauty for generations.
Get a copy of The Adventures of Maritime Domain Awareness Man: Issue #1 by Nick Tomb on Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Visit the ReadersMagnet exhibit at booth #225 at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books to check out the books display.
Title | The Adventures of Maritime Domain Awareness Man: Issue #1
Author | Nick Tomb
Genre | Action and Adventure Fiction, Graphic Novel
Publisher | BookBaby
Published date | April 4, 2023
Author
Nick Tomb is an educator, nature lover, and author. With cultural curiosity and an appetite for adventure, he has found his way in the world, promoting peace and security, conflict resolution, military professionalism, gender equality, social justice, and environmental protection.
A California native, Nick lives in Monterey, CA, with his wife and daughter. Inspired by the dedication of people around the world who commit themselves to protect the oceans and making human activity on the seas safer and secure, he published his first graphic novel, The Adventures of Maritime Domain Awareness Man, in 2023.
After a record 19 consecutive years at Florida International University (FIU) in 2021, the Lecture found a new home at the John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies at the University of Texas, Austin. Celebrating Eric Williams, an online exhibition of the Eric Williams Memorial Collection Museum at the University of the West Indies (UWI, Trinidad and Tobago) is also available for viewing on the website.
This year, the Lecture again hosts distinguished scholar, activist/organizer, teacher, and writer Angela Davis, internationally renowned for her ongoing work to combat all forms of oppression in the U.S. and abroad. Her articles and essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, and she is the author of nine books, including “Angela Davis: An Autobiography”; “Women, Race, and Class”; “Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday”; “The Angela Y. Davis Reader”; “Are Prisons Obsolete?”; a new edition of “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass”; and “The Meaning of Freedom”. During the last twenty-five years, Professor Davis has lectured in all of the fifty United States, as well as in Africa, Europe, the Caribbean, and the former Soviet Union. She is a living witness to the historical struggles of the contemporary era.
Established in 1999 at FIU, the Eric Williams Memorial Lecture honors the legendary Caribbean statesman, eminent historian, and author of several books. His 1944 groundbreaking study “Capitalism and Slavery” arguably re-framed the historiography of the British trans-Atlantic slave trade, and established the contribution of Caribbean slavery to the development of both Britain and America. It has been translated into 9 languages: Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Turkish, Korean among them (with a Dutch translation forthcoming). An almost 80-year-old still highly controversial and provocative text, popularly referred to as ‘The Williams Thesis’, the book argues, among other propositions, that slave trade revenue fueled the rise of the British Industrial Revolution; and that its declining profitability, not solely humanitarianism, gave the impetus to British abolition. Never out of print in the US, in March 2022 “Capitalism and Slavery” was listed at #5 on the UK Sunday Times Bestseller list.
Davis, the 2003 speaker at the 5th Annual Eric Williams Memorial Lecture at FIU, told a notable anecdote in her preamble. Jailed in the US in the 1970s, “Capitalism and Slavery” was the one book she requested that her lawyers had to literally fight to get into her prison cell.
Eric Williams was also the first Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago and Head of Government for a quarter of a century until his death in 1981. He led the country to Independence from Britain in 1962 and onto Republicanism in 1976.
Among prior Eric Williams Memorial Lecture speakers have been: the late John Hope Franklin, one of Americas premier historians of the African-American experience; Kenneth Kaunda, former President of the Republic of Zambia; Cynthia Pratt, former Deputy Prime Minister of the Bahamas; Mia Mottley, now Prime Minister of Barbados; Beverly Anderson-Manley, former First Lady of Jamaica; Portia Simpson Miller, former Prime Minister of Jamaica; Hon. Kenny Anthony, former Prime Minister of Saint Lucia; Hon. Ralph Gonsalves, Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and The Grenadines; prize-winning Haitian author Edwige Danticat and award-winning author, historian and educator, Dr. Carol Anderson of “White Rage” fame.
The Lecture, which seeks to provide an intellectual forum for the examination of pertinent issues in Caribbean and African Diaspora history and politics, is co-sponsored in part by UTs Center for the Study of Race and Democracy; Glenn Joseph; Dr. & Mrs. Leroy Lashley; Jerry Nagee.
The Lecture is also supported by The Eric Williams Memorial Collection Research Library, Archives & Museum at UWI, which was inaugurated by former US Secretary of State, Colin L. Powell in 1998. It was named to UNESCOs prestigious Memory of the World Register in 1999.
Books by Eric Williams and Angela Davis will be available for purchase at the Lecture.
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