Nadel, Dan It's Life as I See it (1681375613)
Originally published by Chicago's Black press, long neglected by mainstream publishing, and now the subject of an exhibition by the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, these comics showcase some of the mid-twentieth century's 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 Yaound 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.
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