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Pioneering Cartoonists of Color (Hardcover)
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Pioneering Cartoonists of Color (Hardcover)
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The marvelous recovery of neglected black artists and their awesome
body of comics creativity. Syndicated cartoonist and illustrator
Tim Jackson offers an unprecedented look at the rich yet largely
untold story of African American cartoon artists. This book
provides a historical record of the men and women who created
seventy-plus comic strips, many editorial cartoons, and
illustrations for articles. The volume covers the mid-1880s, the
early years of the self-proclaimed black press, to 1968, when
African American cartoon artists were accepted in the so-called
mainstream. When the cartoon world was preparing to celebrate the
one hundredth anniversary of the American comic strip, Jackson
anticipated that books and articles published upon the anniversary
would either exclude African American artists or feature only the
three whose work appeared in mainstream newspapers after Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr.'s assassination in 1968. Jackson was determined to
make it impossible for critics and scholars to plead an ignorance
of black cartoonists or to claim that there is no information on
them. He began in 1997 cataloging biographies of African American
cartoonists, illustrators, and graphic designers, and showing
samples of their work. His research involved searching historic
newspapers and magazines as well as books and ""Who's Who""
directories. This project strives not only to record the
contributions of African American artists, but also to place them
in full historical context. Revealed chronologically, these
cartoons offer an invaluable perspective on American history of the
black community during pivotal moments, including the Great
Migration, race riots, the Great Depression, and both World Wars.
Many of the greatest creators have already died, so Jackson
recognizes the stakes in remembering them before this hidden yet
vivid history is irretrievably lost.
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