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Work cat.: Black comics : politics of race and representation, 2013
p. xii (discusses African American comics artists and their comics characters, like Jackie Ormes, "the first female African American syndicated cartoonist, and her signature character, Torchy Brown," and "the pioneering comic books of Bertram Fitzgerald, who single-handedly created a series of comic books that documented the history of Black people in America ('Gold Legacy')") p. 3 ("The popular emergence of Black comics via Herriman's illustrations coincided with the beginnings of what would become known as the Harlem Renaissance"; "Soon after the birth of Black comic strips, in 1935 Oliver 'Ollie' Harrington conceived of the first Black cartoons"; "Though there is documented evidence of Black cartoonists' contributions within the medium of comics since the 1930s, in American society Black cartoonists have struggled to impact the funny pages, as well as the broader spectrum of 'comics'") p. 6 (book is divided into three themes that explore African Americans in comics: "comparison of past and present representations," "representations of race and gender," and "Black comics as political commentary"; includes chapter on "representations of black females in newspaper comic strips") p. 7 (chapters include a study of Black comic strips "based on American race relations and African American culture," several chapters on the depictions of Black superheroines and Black female politicians like Condoleeza Rice in cartoons and comics, and an exploration of "Black masculinity within modern comic strips") p. 8 (book explores "themes around race, gender and representation prevalent in historical and contemporary comics. ... the centerpiece of this volume is the exploration of inherent stereotypes, the influence of racialized, as well as gendered, scripts and the tracking of cultural changes across comic books, comic strips and animated cartoons") (OCoLC)811524079
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The blacker the ink : constructions of black identity in comics and sequential art, 2015
p. 4 ("The book was conceived and executed to actually deal with a complex array of notions around Blackness, agency, and identity in the comics medium. Black people read comics, make comics, and also the subject of comics"; "the intent is to illustrate that the Black experience in the comics medium is a diverse one") p. 5 ("The first images of Black people in comics were loosely based on the stereotypes generated in blackface minstrelsy" and "dominated the mid-1930s until the mid-1940s" as in Will Eisner's comic The Spirit) p. 6 ("In 1947, Orrin C. Evans, a Black news reporter from Philadelphia, along with his brothers, created 'All-Negro Comics,' the first comics anthology featuring Black characters"; "Black images in comics now have an entire subculture and community connected to them" with conventions, awards ceremonies and histories) (OCoLC)890793064
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Kabugi, M. "We're all caught up in it one way or another" : African American comics, civil rights, and political personhood, 2016
(summary: during the Jim Crow period "comics employed racist stereotypes that depicted African Americans as clownish, lazy and semiliterate figures content with their subjection. The effectiveness of these racist images and narratives thus helped to secure ideological notions of white superiority, which then diffused throughout society and formed an integral part of American culture"; book studies the "role that black cartoonists, comic books and comic strips played not only in advancing civil rights, but also in the advancement of what I call 'political personhood'" by countering the prevalent racist images and "constructing and mobilizing a community, both physical and conceptual") (OCoLC)965452059
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Jones, W. The ex-con, the voodo priest, goddess, and the African King : a social, cultural, and political analysis of four Black comic book heroes, 2016
(book "breaks down the origins of four black comic book characters--Luke Cage, Papa Midnite, Storm, and Black Panther--and analyzes their representation throughout comic book history"; Papa Midnite is Jamaican, Black Panther is African, Storm is of African and African American descent, and Luke Cage is African American) (OCoLC)1004865826