| Description |
200 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Note |
"Tom Floyd, Grass Green, Seitu Hayden, Jay Jackson, Charles Johnson, Yaounde Olu, Turtel Onli, Jackie Ormes, Morrie Turner ; essays by Charles Johnson ; aferword by Ronald Wimberly ; cover designed by Kerry James Marshall." |
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"Published in conjunction with the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, on the occasion of Chicago Comics: 1960s to now, June 19-October 3, 2021"--Title page verso. |
| Summary |
"Between the 1940s and 1980s, Chicago's Black press-from The Chicago Defender to the Negro Digest to self-published pamphlets-was home to some of the best cartoonists in America. Kept out of the pages of white-owned newspapers, Black cartoonists found space to address the joys, the horrors, and the everyday realities of Black life in America. From Jay Jackson's anti-racist time travel adventure serial Bungleton Green, to Morrie Turner's radical mixed-race strip Dinky Fellas, to the Afrofuturist comics of Yaoundé Onli and Turtel Onli, to National Book Award-winning novelist Charles Johnson's blistering and deeply funny gag cartoons, this is work that has for far too long been excluded and overlooked. Also featuring the work of Tom Floyd, Seitu Hayden, Jackie Ormes, and Grass Green, this anthology accompanies the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago's exhibition Chicago Comics: 1960 to Now selected and edited by Dan Nadel, and is an essential addition to the history of American comics"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page 195). |
| Subject |
African American cartoonists -- Exhibitions.
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Caricatures and cartoons -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Exhibitions.
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African American newspapers -- Illinois -- Chicago.
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Comic books, strips, etc. -- Social aspects -- United States.
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African Americans in popular culture.
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African Americans and mass media.
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| Genre |
Graphic novels.
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| Added Author |
Nadel, Dan, editor.
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Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, Ill.), host institution.
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| Added Title |
It is life as I see it |
| ISBN |
9781681375618 (paperback) |
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