It's Life as I See It

It's Life as I See It

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Originally published by Chicago's Black press, long neglected by mainstream publishing, and included in a Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago exhibition, these comics showcase some of the finest Black cartoonists.

Between the 1940s-80s, Chicago’s Black press featured some of the US’s best cartoonists, having to create space outside of white-owned newspapers. Jay Jackson’s Bungleton Green, Morrie Turner’s Dinky Fellas, Yaoundé Olu and Turtel Onli's Afrofuturist comics, Charles Johnson’s National Book Award-winning cartoons and more reflect joys, horrors and everyday lives of Black Americans in powerful, long-overlooked works. Tom Floyd, Seitu Hayden, Jackie Ormes and Grass Green are also featured, making this anthology a critical part of US comics history, 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.

The book's cover is designed by Kerry James Marshall.
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, including Art Out of Time: Unknown Comic Visionaries, 1900–1969; Gary Panter; and New York Review Comics's Return 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 Wimberly was born in Washington, D.C. His books include Prince of Cats. He is the editor of the art newspaper LAAB.

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.

Materials: Paperback

Size: 10 in H x 7.5 in W x 0.6 in T

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