Meet Breezy Biggins!
Breezy is a smart, playful, and ambitious lad with a typical teenage boy’s fascination with girls and an atypical obsessions with bicarbonate of soda. in the 1940s and ’50s, “Breezy”, created by Melvin Tapley (working under the name Tap Melvin or just T. Melvin) was a fixture in Black community newspapers across the United States, but it was never available in a book… until now!
Melvin Stanton Tapley (1919–2005) was such a prolific cartoonist that his work for the Black newspapers would often appear under several names on the same page, with his own name being used for editorial cartoons, the advertising strip The Brown Family and the adventure series Jim Steele; either “Tap Melvin” or just “T. Melvin” being used on the comedy strip Breezy; and “Stann Pat” being the signature on the instructive manners panel Do’s and Don’ts. Tapley was also an editor for New York’s Amsterdam News, a co-publisher and cover artist of The Negro Travelers’ Green Book, and, for over a decade, the president of the Peekskill, New York chapter of the NAACP.
Selected as one of the “Best Books of 2022” by Panels & Prose.
- 100 pages, black and white, 8.5 x 6 inches.
- ISBN-10 : 1949996409
- ISBN-13 : 978-1949996401
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.
From the mind of Charles M. Schulz, the world’s most beloved cartoonist, comes these funny looks at the game of Bridge. The game, the culture, and the very human foibles of those who play it all come under his masterful attention, with over sixty cartoons in full color.
by Bill O’Malley
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