2014-02-27


We're winding down Black History Month and we haven't highlighted nearly enough Black creators here. So with this week's column, I'm going to point you to a number of published books about Black creators. This isn't a comprehensive list, by any means. I've focused on books about Black creators, not books about creators that have one or two Black people highlighted, or books that talk about Black characters. I can't say I've read all of them, but I haven't found any yet that weren't worth my time.

Matt Baker: The Art of Glamour by Jim Amash and Eric Nolen-Weathington

Black Superheroes, Milestone Comics, and Their Fans by Jeffrey A. Brown

Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence by Geoffrey Canada and Jamar Nicholas

Sentences: The Life of M.F. Grimm by Percy Carey and Ronald Wimberly

Black Comix: African American Independent Comics, Art and Culture by Damian Duffy and John Jennings

Morrie Turner: Creator of "Wee Pals" by Mary K. Ericsson

Jackie Ormes: The First African American Woman Cartoonist by Nancy Goldstein

Why I Left America and Other Essays by Oliver W. Harrington

Black Comics: Politics of Race and Representation by Sheena C. Howard and Ronald L. Jackson II

All the Rage: The Boondocks Past and Present by Aaron McGruder

Modern Masters: Kyle Baker by Eric Nolen-Weathington

Krazy Kat and The Art of George Herriman: A Celebration by Craig Yoe

That's a really short list, so I'm actually hoping I missed a few. Even so, there's not nearly as many of these types of books as there should be, so encourage comic historians to write more like them. We have barely scratched the surface here.

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