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Title: Black Images in the Comics: A Visual History by Fredrik Stromberg, Charles Johnson ISBN: 1-56097-546-6 Publisher: Fantagraphics Books Pub. Date: August, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (1 review)
Rating: 3
Summary: Somewhat disappointing
Comment: This book is somewhat disappointing on a couple of grounds. For one thing, Stromberg only uses one panel from each of the comics he discusses, thus the reader has a difficult time getting these particular comic in full context (although his accompanying notes are good). This and (as Charles Johnson noted in his prologue), the "Negro Comics" of Black newspapers of the 1900s are given somewhat short shrift as a means of comparison. Cartoons dealing with the portrayal of Africans as simian-like savages are used so frequently that the point that this stereotype was common among cartoonists is beaten to the ground.
These flaws aside, it's a good introduction to the subject of Black protrayals in the cartoons. Aaron McGruder (of "Boondocks" fame), cartoonist Tim Jackson, and a professor at Ft. Valley State University (Georgia) have also done research on this topic. I hope this book encourages them to publish their studies.
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Title: A Right to Be Hostile: The Boondocks Treasury by Aaron McGruder, Michael Moore ISBN: 1400048575 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 23 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Boondocks: Because I Know You Don't Read The Newspaper by Aaron McGruder ISBN: 0740706098 Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing Pub. Date: 15 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Fresh For '01... You Suckas: A Boondocks Collection by Aaron McGruder ISBN: 0740713957 Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing Pub. Date: 15 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Fear of a Black Marker: Another K Chronicles Compendium by Keith Knight ISBN: 0916397637 Publisher: Manic D Press Pub. Date: 2000 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: ego trip's Big Book of Racism! by Sacha Jenkins, Elliott Wilson, Chairman Jefferson Mao, Gabriel Alvarez, Brent Rollins ISBN: 0060988967 Publisher: Regan Books Pub. Date: 15 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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