Growing up in Mississippi, graphic novelist John Jennings was deeply impacted by the horrific death of 14-year-old Emmett Till from an early age. Jennings, a UC Riverside professor of media and cultural studies, is helping to bring that story to a new medium with “Framing Emmett Till: Exposing Dark Fear,” a graphic novel released Oct. 27 by Abrams ComicsArts through Jennings’ Megascope imprint. He formed Megascope in 2020 as a place to promote speculative and historical nonfiction stories about and by people of color.