IT'S LIFE AS I SEE IT: BLACK CARTOONISTS IN CHICAGO, 1940–1980 by Dan Nadel, Charles Johnson, Ronald Wimberly
£19.99
IT'S LIFE AS I SEE IT: BLACK CARTOONISTS IN CHICAGO, 1940–1980 by Dan Nadel, Charles Johnson, Ronald Wimberly
£19.99
Title It's Life as I See it: Black Cartoonists in Chicago, 1940–1980
Author(s)/Editor(s) Dan Nadel, Charles Johnson, Ronald Wimberly
Publisher MCA, The New York Review of Books
Pages 200
Dimensions 190 x 254 mm
Format Softcover
Year 2021

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 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.

Edited by Dan Nadel, essays by Charles Johnson and Ronald Wimberly, cover designed by Kerry James Marshall.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.