Commissioned by Marvel in honor of Native American Heritage Month and displayed in comic-book stores around the nation, this poster transforms Marvel’s heroes from an Indigenous perspective, reinventing Iron Man, Golden Archer, Spider-Man, White Widow, Captain America, Werewolf by Night, Thor, and the Incredible Hulk. Jeffrey Veregge called his aesthetic “Salish Geek” in reference to the Salish peoples who populate the Pacific Northwest. His visual language combines motifs from that group’s historic Coast Salish design with elements of pop culture, creating a modernized Pacific Northwest Native style. Veregge’s prolific work across Marvel Comics, IDW Publishing, Valiant Comics, Dark Horse Comics, and the imagery of other major publishers inserted a prominent Native presence into mainstream global pop culture. He supported Indigenous storylines like Marvel’s Red Wolf relaunch in 2015 (one of the earliest examples of a Native American superhero, first appearing in 1970) while demonstrating that Native visual languages could incorporate any story and any hero (rather than those specifically defined as Indigenous), as this poster shows.
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