It's life as I see it : black cartoonists in Chicago, 1940-1980

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Label

It's life as I see it : black cartoonists in Chicago, 1940-1980

Title remainder

black cartoonists in Chicago, 1940-1980

Statement of responsibility

essay by Charles Johnson ; afterword by Ronald Wimberly ; compiled and edited by Dan Nadel ; cover designed by Kerry James Marshall

Title variation

It is life as I see it

Title variation remainder

black cartoonists in Chicago, 1940-1980

Contributor

• Johnson, Charles, 1948-
• Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, Ill.),
• Nadel, Dan,
• Wimberly, Ronald,
• Wimberly, Ronald,
• Johnson, Charles, 1948-
• Nadel, Dan,
• Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, Ill.),

Compiler

• Nadel, Dan,
• Nadel, Dan,

Contributor

• Johnson, Charles, 1948-
• Johnson, Charles, 1948-

Curator

• Nadel, Dan,
• Nadel, Dan,

Editor

• Nadel, Dan,
• Nadel, Dan,

Host institution

• Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, Ill.),
• Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, Ill.),

Subject

• African American newspapers -- Illinois | Chicago
• African American newspapers -- Illinois | Chicago
• African Americans and mass media
• African Americans and mass media
• African Americans and mass media
• African Americans in popular culture
• African American cartoonists
• African Americans in popular culture
• Caricatures and cartoons
• Caricatures and cartoons -- Illinois | Chicago -- Exhibitions
• Caricatures and cartoons -- Illinois | Chicago -- Exhibitions
• Comic books, strips, etc. -- Social aspects
• Comic books, strips, etc. -- Social aspects -- United States
• Comic books, strips, etc. -- Social aspects -- United States
• Exhibition catalogs
• Exhibition catalogs
• Exhibition catalogs
• Illinois -- Chicago
• United States
• African Americans in popular culture
• African American cartoonists -- Exhibitions
• African American cartoonists -- Exhibitions
• African American newspapers

Genre

• Exhibitions
• Exhibition catalogs

Language

eng

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"--

Member of

• New York Review comics

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• bibliography
• catalogs

Series statement

New York Review comics

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