It's Life as I See it

Black Cartoonists in Chicago, 1940 - 1980

Dan Nadel, Charles Johnson

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New York Review Books
17 August 2021

Graphic novels

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 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. Dan Nadel is the curator of the Chicago Comics- 1960 to Now exhibition.

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.

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.

By: Dan Nadel, Charles Johnson
Imprint: New York Review Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 191mm,
Weight: 368g
ISBN: 9781681375618
ISBN 10: 1681375613
Pages: 144
Publication Date: 17 August 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Dan Nadel is Curator at Large of the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, UC Davis. He is the author and editor of several books, includingArt Out of Time- Unknown Comic Visionaries, 1900-1969;Gary Panter;andNew York Review Comics'sReturn to Romance- The Strange Love Stories of Ogden Whitney(with Frank Santoro). He lives in Brooklyn, New York. Charles Johnson is a novelist, essayist, literary scholar, philosopher, cartoonist, screenwriter, and professor emeritus at the University of Washington in Seattle. A MacArthur fellow, he won the National Book Award for his novel Middle Passage in 1990. Ronald Wimberlywas born in Washington, D.C. His books includePrince of Cats. He is the editor ofthe art newspaperLAAB. Kerry James Marshall is a Chicago-based artist best known for his portraits of Black figures. The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago hosted a retrospective exhibition of his work, Kerry James Marshall- Mastry, in 2016. He was included on the Time 100 list in 2017.

Reviews for It's Life as I See it: Black Cartoonists in Chicago, 1940 - 1980

An important and groundbreaking collection, bringing together important voices and biographical context illustrating four decades of Black perspectives on everything from daily life to the Civil Rights Movement. Some of the strips will make your jaw drop with the way they bring to life a particular period in history, some of them will make you shake your head with the poignant realization of how little has changed, and some of them will just make you laugh. --Eve L. Ewing, sociologist and Marvel Comics writer Nadel's lush, profound and well-researched volume sheds well-deserved light on some of the most talented, tenacious and sadly unsung, heroes of modern comics. --Emil Ferris, author of My Favorite Thing is Monsters