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A Chaz Guest, ’85 Artist 34 | Southern ALUMNI MAGAZINE
NEW SUPERHERO IS DESTINED FOR THE BIG SCREEN —
a powerful, spiritually minded champion created by artist Chaz Guest, ’85. The character — Buffalo Warrior — was inspired years ago by the painter’s then 9year-old son Xian, who asked his father to create a superhero, someone who looked like them. “It was a gift,” notes Guest, who went to bed thinking about the request. He woke with the Buffalo Warrior character fully formed in his mind, including the hero’s backstory
and imagery. Building on the inspiration, he created a series of Buffalo Warrior paintings as well as a graphic novel. Both tell the story of a boy born into slavery who grows up and enlists in the U.S. Army as a member of the historic Buffalo Soldiers, the all-Black regiments established by Congress in 1866. Guest’s soldier dies in battle, but ultimately is reborn as the superhero Buffalo Warrior, dedicated to fighting evil. In September, Meridian Pictures acquired the rights to turn Guest’s Buffalo Warrior into a feature film. The project is out to
