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It's life as I see it : black cartoonists in Chicago, 1940-1980 ; Tom Floyd and 8 others

It's life as I see it : black cartoonists in Chicago, 1940-1980 ; Tom Floyd and 8 others

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"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...

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ISBN:
9781681375618
Description:
200 pages : black and white illustrations ; 26 cm
Other Title:
It is life as I see it : black cartoonists in Chicago, 1940-1980
Notes:
Works by Tom Floyd, Grass Green, Seitu Hayden, Jay Jackson, Charles Johnson, Yaounde Olu, Turtel Onli, Jackie Ormes, Morrie Turner ; essays by Charles Johnson, Dan Nadel, Ronald Wimberly
"Published in conjunction with the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, on the occasion of "Chicago comics: 1960s to Now," June 19-October 3, 2021. Curated by Dan Nadel"--title page verso
Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-195)
LCCN:
2020050717
Control Number:
3058156
Other Authors:
Johnson, Charles, 1948- contributor
Marshall, Kerry James, 1955- cover designer
Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, Ill.), host institution
Nadel, Dan, editor, curator, compiler
Wimberly, Ronald, writer of afterword
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