Quick 10 Interview with Reginald Hudlin
Joel MangrumReginald Hudlin is a man who has almost done it all. He has written and directed his own movies, run a major media outlet with BET, and written such characters as the Black Panther for Marvel Comics. The Dollar Bin was given the chance to submit a few questions to the man himself so Joel, Terence, and the rest of the Dollar Bin crew put our heads together and came up with the 10 best and toughest questions we could.
DB: What was your first exposure to comics?
Hudlin: My oldest brother was a very serious collector. He put together a very broad Silver Age collection Marvel, DC, Gold Key and other publishers. I got the bug from him.
DB: BET has gotten criticism over the years for promoting certain possibly negative stereotypes. In your opinion where is the line between an accurate representation of certain segments of African-American culture and helping to perpetuate negative stereotypes and how can that line be defined?
Hudlin: It’s not my job to defend BET anymore, but to answer your question broadly, at this point there is too much disagreement within our community by gender, class and education to come to any kind of consensus as to what is “appropriate” or even “real” in black representation.