Black Heroes of the Wild West

James Otis Smith writes and illustrates this RAW Junior series that brings a fresh, historically grounded lens to the classic Western, spotlighting the real-life African American cowboys, lawmen, and outlaws who helped shape the frontier. Launched in 2020 with its first issue, the series reclaims a vital, overlooked chapter of American history through dynamic, comics-style storytelling. It matters as a necessary corrective to the genre's usual mythology, offering young readers and adults alike a truer, more inclusive vision of the Wild West.