Guy Sims
BIO
GUY SIMS – is a true renaissance man. A poet and fiction writer as well as the co creator of Brotherman Comics. He is also the author of Living Just a Little: A Novel; The Cold Hard Cases of Duke Denim; The Kwanzaa Handbook; and The Kwanzaa Kids Learn the Seven Principles. The Brotherman Comics have been credited with getting black boys reading and set the stage for the evaluation of graphic novels widely popular with Black boys.
Sims has authored two of the earliest publication on the subject of Kwanzaa. The first was the Kwanzaa Handbook and the second; The Kwanzaa Kids Learn the Seven Principles. An avid poet and writer of short fiction, he has completed a collection of new American Tall Tales, Rife Powers, and Other Too Tall Tales, and a critically acclaimed novel Living Just A Little.
He co- authored the graphic novel, Brotherman Revelation with his illustrator brother, Dawud Anyabwile. Sims also wrote the graphic novel adaptation of Walter Dean Myers’ award-winning youth novel, Monster.
