It's life as I see it : Black cartoonists in Chicago, 1940-1980 / essay by Charles Johnson ; afterword by Ronald Wimberly ; compiled and edited by Dan Nadel ; cover designed by Kerry James Marshall.

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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 th...

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Corporate Author: Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, Ill.) (Host institution)
Other Authors: Nadel, Dan (Editor, Curator, Compiler, Writer of introduction), Wimberly, Ronald (author of afterword,, colophon, etc.), Floyd, Tom, 1929-2011 (Artist), Green, Grass, 1939-2002 (Artist), Hayden, Seitu (Artist), Jackson, Jay, 1905-1954 (Artist), Johnson, Charles, 1948- (Artist), Olu, Yaounde (Artist), Onli, Turtel (Artist), Ormes, Jackie, 1911-1985 (Artist), Turner, Morrie (Artist), Marshall, Kerry James, 1955- (Cover designer)
Language:English
Published: New York : New York Review Books, 2021.
Series:New York Review comics.
Subjects:
African American cartoonists > Illinois > Chicago > Exhibitions.
African Americans > Comic books, strips, etc. > Exhibitions.
Comic books, strips, etc. > Illinois > Chicago > Exhibitions.
Caricatures and cartoons > Illinois > Chicago > Exhibitions.
African American newspapers > Illinois > Chicago.
Comic books, strips, etc. > Social aspects > United States.
African Americans in popular culture.
African Americans and mass media.
African Americans in comic books, strips etc.
Genre:
Exhibitions.
Comic books, strips, etc.
Physical Description:200 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Variant Title:
Black cartoonists in Chicago, 1940-1980
Format: Book

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