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

Between the 1940s and 1980s, Chicago’s Black press, including The Chicago Defender, Negro Digest, and self-published pamphlets, housed some of America’s best cartoonists. Excluded from white-owned newspapers, they addressed Black life’s joys, horrors, and realities. Jay Jackson’s anti-racist time travel serial, Morrie Turner’s radical mixed-race strip, Yaoundé Olu and Turtel Onli’s Afrofuturist comics, and Charles Johnson’s blistering gag cartoons, among others, have been overlooked. This anthology, featuring Tom Floyd, Seitu Hayden, Jackie Ormes, and Grass Green, accompanies the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago’s exhibition Chicago Comics: 1960 to Now and showcases an essential part of American comics history.

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