All your racial problems will soon end: the cartoons of 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. Beginning in the late 1960s, Johnson reimagined the gag comic as a powerful and incendiary tool, and tackled America's mid-century afflicti...

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1. Verfasser: Johnson, Charles 1948- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York, NY New York Review of Books [2022]
Ausgabe:Advance uncorrected proofs
Schriftenreihe:New York review comic
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Zusammenfassung:"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. Beginning in the late 1960s, Johnson reimagined the gag comic as a powerful and incendiary tool, and tackled America's mid-century afflictions--segregation, inner-city poverty, police brutality, and white supremacy--by subverting stale gag topes. 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from across his career: college newspaper gags, selections from his books Black Humor and Half-Past Nation Time, his unpublished manuscript Lumps in the Melting Pot, as well as uncollected pieces ranging from freelance and student days to his years as a writer and professor. Taken together, this volume reveals Johnson as long overdue for appreciation as a cartoonist of the first order"--Back cover
Beschreibung:273 Seiten 23 cm
ISBN:9781681376738

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