Matty's Rocket Book One — Tim Fielder

Matty's Rocket, created by pioneering Afrofuturist, Tim Fielder, is a galaxy spanning tale about the adventures of space pilot Matty Watty. This graphic novel series is based in an alternative past where the pulp stylings of Buck Rogers, Flash Gordon, and Fritz Lang's Metropolis collide with the real world events of World War 2, FDR, the Harlem Renaissance and the oppressive Jim Crow era. Read as Matty navigates her vessel through a dangerous world filled with evil villains, heroic feats, alien oddities and down home adventure.