Projects

Below is just a sampling of present and past projects. For more information, including collaboration requests, please contact us.
My Image Studios

My Image Studios (MIST) -- www.mistnyc.com -- is a 20,000 square foot convergent entertainment center specializing in the African and Latino Diaspora. It will be located in the Kalahari Condominiums, the largest mixed-income, mixed-use green condo development in NYC. The entertainment center – which will create 85 new Harlem jobs and consists of three theaters, upscale concessions, a full service restaurant and bar, and post production facilities for video and filmmakers – is designed to appeal to tourists and city residents alike in an area that is generating three times the population growth than the rest of the borough. When it opens MIST will be the first green, convergent entertainment center in the United States.

Posro Media CEO Roland Laird is the co-founder and Managing Director of My Image Studios. His partner is Full Spectrum on NY, developers of the Kalahari.

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Studio City New Jersey
In August 2010 Posro Media CEO Roland Laird became a key adviser to Studio City New Jersey provide his business development expertise to refine the studio’s growth strategy, ramp up marketing, and secure funds to complete the build-out of the 85,000 square foot facility in Trenton, New Jersey. Film producer Warrington Hudlin emceed Studio City's grand opening in May 2010. Among those that have visited the studio since its opening are Melvin Van Peeples, actress-turned-director Kasi Lemmons (director of Eve's Bayou, Caveman Valentine, and Talk To Me), and Lemmons's husband actor Vondie Curtis Hall.

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Still I Rise: A Graphic History of African Americans
Pub date: February 3, 2009.

Connect with our publisher at their site at http://www.sterlingpublishing.com/catalog?isbn=9781402762260, order it from Amazon.com or contact us for more information.

Reviews of previous edition:
From the arrival of the first slaves in colonial Virginia to the Million Man March on Washington, Still I Rise is an amazing condensed cartoon chronicle of African Americans that's aimed primarily at adults and prefaced with an introductory history of black cartoonists. [Grade] A- (Entertainment Weekly)

"In comic-book form, this nonfiction work presents American history from the African American viewpoint and offers nuggets of little-known information on the impact of African Americans on American history. Though it is impossible to offer a comprehensive history in 206 pages, the Lairds, publishers of The Griots, a popular Afrocentic comic strip, and freelance artist Bey have done a credible job of raising issues of concern to all Americans." (Library Journal)

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Entertainment Attraction Research
Posro Media CEO Roland Laird was recruited to conduct research related to the development of a heritage-based attraction for diversified entertainment company operating worldwide. For the assignment Roland presented a historical perspective of an intersection of African American and Latino-American heritage suitable for the development of an amusement ride, live stage production, hospitality (hotel and restaurant), film, books, and additional merchandising.
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The Griots
"The Griots" comic strip was syndicated to black-owned newspapers by Posro from 1993 to 1994.

"The strip is full of witty lines, but also contains insights about black history and culture" -- The New York Times in "At Posro Komics, Heroes Defy the Odds, and Stereotypes"
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MC Squared
Based in Harlem, MC Squared chronicled the life of Earl Terrel, a brilliant young barber who designs computer games on the side. Three issues were published between 1991-94. Issue #3 was archived in the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown for its focus on the Negro Leagues.
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    Allen Iverson 101
    Had the stars been aligned differently, Allen Iverson could have been just another young black man who had a run-in with the law. Instead, the story of his rise to prominence represents the point of intersection between the Civil Rights era and the hip-hop generation. For this reason, combined with his ability and willingness to always be true to himself without care for how his image is portrayed in the media, Iverson is the most interesting—and quite possibly the most important—athlete we’ve seen since Muhammad Ali. Full Text
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