"My comic books are based on my life story. Instead of writing it all in one autobiography, I broke it up into a series. In this book, I wanted to share my experience on choosing the right friends and peers to be around and really just pay attention to your choices that you make at a young age, because the choices that I made when I was 15, I'm still paying for them today."
"I created my own show where I do art and teach through it. I do episodes on how to create art, how to write books and I also tie it into my life story. Schools come to the station and I do mentoring there. And they use my shows with the youth ... to show them my story, what I'm doing."
Ashshahid Muhammad uses art as survival and community healing. He founded Graffiti University Comics to educate youth about drugs, bullying, crime and incarceration through illustrated stories. He released W.B.C Comic Book 2: Wave Nu-Vo Era, drawing on his experiences with incarceration and street life to create cautionary tales about choosing friends and making youthful decisions. Muhammad expanded into public-access media with One Eye Television through Community Media of Staten Island, combining live painting, drawing and instruction with life lessons. Schools, community residences and youth centers use the program for mentoring and classroom education. Muhammad lost vision in one eye after a shooting at age 21.
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