It's Life as I See It: Black Cartoonists in Chicago, 1940-1980--Tom Floyd, Grass Green, Seitu Hayden, Jay Jackson, Charles Johnson, Yaounde Olu, Turtel Onli, Jackie Ormes, Morrie Turner
It's Life as I See It: Black Cartoonists in Chicago, 1940-1980--Tom Floyd, Grass Green, Seitu Hayden, Jay Jackson, Charles Johnson, Yaounde Olu, Turtel Onli, Jackie Ormes, Morrie Turner
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It's Life as I See It: Black Cartoonists in Chicago, 1940-1980--Tom Floyd, Grass Green, Seitu Hayden, Jay Jackson, Charles Johnson, Yaounde Olu, Turtel Onli, Jackie Ormes, Morrie Turner
W031396 | $24.95 / 20% library disc.
Exhibition Catalog
Charles Johnson et al. Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 2021. Published by New York Review Comics.
200 pp. Well illustrated (no col.). 26 x 19 cm. In English. Paperbound.
ISBN 9781681375618
Originally published by Chicago's Black press, long neglected by mainstream publishing, and now included in a Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago exhibition, these comics showcase some of the finest Black cartoonists. 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 Yaounde Olu 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, and is an essential addition to the history of American comics. The book's cover is designed by Kerry James Marshall.
Subject Headings: Western Art -- United States -- Post-1945 -- Drawings and Watercolors -- African American Artists ; Comics --
W031396 | $24.95 / 20% library disc.
Exhibition Catalog
Charles Johnson et al. Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 2021. Published by New York Review Comics.
200 pp. Well illustrated (no col.). 26 x 19 cm. In English. Paperbound.
ISBN 9781681375618
Originally published by Chicago's Black press, long neglected by mainstream publishing, and now included in a Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago exhibition, these comics showcase some of the finest Black cartoonists. 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 Yaounde Olu 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, and is an essential addition to the history of American comics. The book's cover is designed by Kerry James Marshall.
Subject Headings: Western Art -- United States -- Post-1945 -- Drawings and Watercolors -- African American Artists ; Comics --
