Interview with Legion M Team about Robert Smalls the Untold American Hero of the Civil War at Wondercon 2025
Defiant: The Robert Smalls Story in Comics, Graphic Novel … and Film! This celebration of the untold life story of American hero Robert Smalls has been memorialized in an inspiring run of comics, a graphic novel on the near-horizon, and next up is a feature film from Legion M. The victor writes the history books so am surprised (not really) that I have never heard of Robert Smalls who’s contribution to the freedom of my ancestors and the American education system has been erased.
Luckily Legoin M has taken on the challege after members saw the meme and became intrigued about the story of a slave who escaped with his family and friends with a warship!
As an enslaved harbor pilot in Charleston at the height of the Civil War, Robert Smalls pulled off the most audacious heist in history by commandeering a Confederate warship and filling it with family & friends to run the naval blockade to freedom in the North. Smalls then helped convince Abraham Lincoln to accept African American soldiers into the Union Army – and became a naval hero. And that was only the beginning of Smalls’ extraordinary life. I attended the Wondercon 2025 Panel with the comics/graphic novel & screenwriter Rob Edwards (Captain America: Brave New World, Academy Award® nominated The Princess and The Frog), producer Marvin Jones (Black Lightning) and other members of the Legion M team as they spoke about the process of adapting Small’s amazing story to comics and film. Legion M executives Chris Cooper and David Baxter will moderated the discussion.
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