DUKEScomics is an international Award-Winning small press and studio based in southern New Mexico led by Dr. E.C.-Dukes, a Xicana author and native New Mexican, and her husband, illustrator and animator Ronnie Dukes, a Black Chicago native. Our motto is visualizing the future through comics. We specialize in graphic novels, futurism, borderland culture, technology, and BIPOC characters.

 

DUKEScomics received the 2024 International Latino Book Award Award Winning Author and the 2024 Outstanding Emerging BIPOC Creator Award presented by Latinx Pop Lab, Ad Astra Media, and UT English for Comics, Animation, Education, and Outreach.

 

We published the sci-fi graphic novel Daizee & the DUKES of Chuco: Chuco- Juárez World Rally and the action/mystery illustrated narrative A.W.O.L.: Cruz Ochoa available in English, Spanish, Japanese, and German.

 

We exhibited our work in Tokyo Comic Con, Japan; The Leipzig Book Fair Manga Comic Con, Germany; and FIL Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. DUKEScomics’s major US shows include the American Library Association in Chicago and San Diego; Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo (C2E2); BIPOC Pop; The Latinx Comic Arts Festival; Latino Comics Expo; Texas Latino Comic Con; El Paso Comic Con; Con-Front; and Chuco Con.