In the 1940s, the comics pages of America’s weekly Black newspapers were filled with characters both inspirational and aspirational. In addition to the life stories of great African Americans, there were fictional tales of Black reporters, Black detectives, Black government agents, Black aviators, Black people rising in the ranks of society, even Black superheroes, all to give their audiences the sense of the best that was possible.
Then there was Bootsie.
Bootsie was a liar, a womanizer, a layabout, a scammer, a cheat, and an all around disreputable dude. Among the denizens of Harlem he was scorned, threatened, detested… and yet nonetheless loved as a part of the community.
Collected in this book for the very first time are almost 150 “Dark Laughter” cartoons from 1941 through 1946, during which time Bootsie goes from being a draft evader to a draftee, an enlisted man, a serviceman on the ground in Europe, and ultimately to a veteran for the winning side. In these, cartoonist Ollie Harrington’s lively art captures the rich reality of Bootie’s world while telling tales that are sometimes joyous, sometimes very harsh, like the world itself.
- Paperback : 161 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1949996336
- ISBN-13 : 978-1949996333
- Item Weight : 10.7 ounces
- Dimensions : 6 x 0.41 x 9 inches
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Before Pete Tumlinson drew the early adventures of Marvel’s Kid Colt, Outlaw, he created this wild romp of a strip that was published in papers throughout the United States.
Every comics writer brings their own style to their script, and here you’ll find nine example scripts from writers of comics and graphic novels. See how Mark Waid writes a crime tale, Eric Shanower writes an Age of Bronze script for himself to follow, Bryan Talbot writes one for a fellow artist. You also get Mark Verheiden showing a script for his own superpowered hero The American, The Men In Black creator Lowell Cunningham writing a new concept, Watchmen editor Barbara Randall Kesel writing an all-ages short story, and Professor R. Alan Brooks showing a brief tale from his Burning Metronome series. Most of the scripts are introduced by the writers, like Ryan Estrada telling how he and Kim Hyun Sook co-wrote the script for a chapter of their acclaimed Banned Book Club, or Shaenon Garrity explaining how she uses both script and thumbnails when writing her The Dire Days of Willowweep Manor graphic novel, and more. A great tool for aspiring comics writers and artists alike!
, who provides “unsolicited advice on how not to play bridge.”
Speck is the ultimate altar boy, half holy, half hellion, well-intentioned but oh, so distractible. Some of us remember dealing with him, others of us remember being him.
The great Sergio Aragonés, during the early years of his fifty-plus-and-still-counting career at Mad Magazine, also created this book of cartoons focused on a female sexual predator, a woman who does not let things like appropriateness and consent get in her way.
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O grande Sergio Aragonés, nos primeiros anos de sua carreira de mais de 50 anos e ainda contando na Revista Mad, também criou esse livro de cartoons focados em uma predadora sexual, uma mulher que não deixa coisas como adequação e consentimento ficarem em seu caminho. Meio século desde a primeira impressão desse livro, ele está disponível pela primeira vez em português, sem censura, nessa edição ampliada.Título original em Inglês: Aunt’s in Your Pants