Matinee Idol

Comic Book. An African-American high school student and film buff in Los Angeles dies in a movie theater built on a sacred, Native- American burial ground and is supernaturally reborn as The Matinee Idol: a superhero with motion-picture, genre-related powers and abilities.

Christopher Appling is a writer who has worked for the Cleveland newspaper, The East Side Daily News, for 20 years. He founded the Pride Comics comic book company in 2014 with artist Alonzo Washington. They were both featured on an episode of the local PBS series Applause.