John is a professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Riverside. Jennings is co-editor of the Eisner Award-winning collection The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of the Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art. He was also a 2016 Nasir Jones Hip Hop Studies Fellow with the Hutchins Center at Harvard University.

Jennings’ projects include the horror anthology Box of Bones, the coffee-table book Black Comix Returns (with Damian Duffy), and the Eisner Award-winning, Bram Stoker Award-winning, New York Times bestselling graphic novel adaptation of Octavia Butler’s classic dark fantasy novel Kindred. Jennings is also the founder and curator of the ABRAMS Megascope line of graphic novels.

John’s work can be seen in Black Phantom.