![]() Nancy Goldstein’s Jackie Ormes is one of the few full-length books devoted to a cartoonist who is not a white male (others include Robbins’s Nell Brinkley and the New Woman in the Early 20th Century (2001) Shelley Armitage’s Kewpies and Beyond: The World of Rose O’Neill (1994) and Thomas Inge’s Dark Laughter: The Satiric Art of Oliver W. ![]() The canon-establishing exhibition, “Masters of American Comics,” which traveled in 2006, highlighted Krazy Kat creator George Herriman, who is widely believed to have been Creole but it included no women, even though there are plenty of them-just consult Trina Robbins’s The Great Women Cartoonists (2001). ![]() ![]() Jackie Ormes: The First African American Woman CartoonistĪnn Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2008, 240 pages, $35.00, hardcover,ĭespite the recent successes of Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis (2004) and Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home (2006), cartoonists who are women or people of color receive scant attention in our culture. ![]()
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