Imagine if the main setting of Harry Potter wasn’t a school for wizards but was instead a school for superheroes. Sort of like X-Men’s mutant school but think more like a middle-school where most of the characters are Black. That’s the world of Leon: Protector of the Playground.

Leon, whose superpower is common sense, has some of the same problems that other sixth-graders might have but his problems involve portals from other dimensions, archenemies and strange characters that only a child can dream of, yet this award-winning brainchild was conceived by cartoonist, Jamar Nicholas.

Nicholas brought this empowering comic-strip book to life with crowdfunding on Kickstarter. He has his supporters’ names printed in the back of the book.