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"Before Charles Johnson found fame as a novelist and won the National Book Award for Middle Passage in 1991, he was a cartoonist, and a very good one. Taught via correspondence course by the comics editor Lawrence Lariar, mentored by the New Yorker cartoonist Charles Barsotti, and inspired by the call of the poet Amiri Baraka to celebrate and depict Black life in America, Johnson crafted some of the fiercest and funniest cartoons of the twentieth century. Reimagining the gag comic as a powerful and incendiary tool, Johnson tackled America's mid-century afflictions-segregation, inner-city poverty, police brutality, and white supremacy-by craftily subverting stale gag tropes. He populated them with bullet-dodging Black Panthers, doubt-filled Klansmen, militant babies, self-serving politicians, and complacent suburban liberals. This collection, Johnson's first in nearly fifty years, brings together work from across his career: college newspaper gags, selections from his books Black Humor and Half-Past Nation Time, his unpublished manuscript Lumps in the Melting Pot, and uncollected pieces. Taken together, this volume reveals Johnson as long overdue for appreciation as a cartoonist of the first order"--… (més)
This is a nice, humorous complement to the graphic novels I've read recently about the Black Panther Party and Angela Davis. Johnson's cartoons from the 1960s and '70s are able to find the funny in Black militants, the KKK, and race relations in general. And sometimes that means involving aliens and Noah's Ark.
It's great to see material too long neglected back in print.
FOR REFERENCE:
Contents: From High School to Black Humor (1965 - 70) -- Half-Past Nation Time (1972) -- Lumps in the Melting Pot (1973) -- Freelance (1968 - 1975) -- Later Work (1975 - Present) -- Acknowledgments -- Also by Charles Johnson ( )
"Before Charles Johnson found fame as a novelist and won the National Book Award for Middle Passage in 1991, he was a cartoonist, and a very good one. Taught via correspondence course by the comics editor Lawrence Lariar, mentored by the New Yorker cartoonist Charles Barsotti, and inspired by the call of the poet Amiri Baraka to celebrate and depict Black life in America, Johnson crafted some of the fiercest and funniest cartoons of the twentieth century. Reimagining the gag comic as a powerful and incendiary tool, Johnson tackled America's mid-century afflictions-segregation, inner-city poverty, police brutality, and white supremacy-by craftily subverting stale gag tropes. He populated them with bullet-dodging Black Panthers, doubt-filled Klansmen, militant babies, self-serving politicians, and complacent suburban liberals. This collection, Johnson's first in nearly fifty years, brings together work from across his career: college newspaper gags, selections from his books Black Humor and Half-Past Nation Time, his unpublished manuscript Lumps in the Melting Pot, and uncollected pieces. Taken together, this volume reveals Johnson as long overdue for appreciation as a cartoonist of the first order"--
It's great to see material too long neglected back in print.
FOR REFERENCE:
Contents: From High School to Black Humor (1965 - 70) -- Half-Past Nation Time (1972) -- Lumps in the Melting Pot (1973) -- Freelance (1968 - 1975) -- Later Work (1975 - Present) -- Acknowledgments -- Also by Charles Johnson ( )