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Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. Softcover without dust jacket. Minimal wear to edges. Pages clean and unmarked. 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 lay about, 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 Oliver Harrington's lively art captures the rich reality of Bootsie's world while telling tales that are sometimes joyous, sometimes very harsh, like the world itself. Ollie Harrington (illustrateur).…

Etat : Very Good. Softcover, 112 pages. First published in 1934, in the midst of the Great Depression, these cartoons (by Reuben Award winner Otto Soglow, creator of The Little King, working with David G. Plotkin) gives us an insider?s view of that difficult time. Even the title is a sign of the moment; in 1932, the Republican Party tried to convince people that, no matter what they saw around them, the Depression was already in the past, putting ?Wasn?t the depression terrible?? in big letters in newspaper ads and on billboards along commuter corridors in the northeast. (This failed to convince the Depression to go away.)Content note: This material includes common racial and social caricatures of its day, some of which will be considered inappropriate by modern audiences. Clean, like new. Record # 377824. O. Soglow (illustrateur).…

Paperback. Etat : Good. No DJ. 2nd Edition. 80 pps. Titles: frt. wrp. Illust. w/ b/w photos & portrait. Interior leaves are clean and tight. Facsimile reprint of the 1954 edition for traveling in a segregated America by Black folks. Check out the movie. A clean copy.

Softcover, 154 pages, b&w cartoons. ?Negro America?s Favorite Cartoonist? That?s what Langston Hughes called Ollie Harrington, whose cartoons and comic strips were a staple of America?s Black newspapers for decades starting in the 1930s. In his single-panel series ?Dark Laughter,? Harrington brought out the vibrancy of Harlem life in its day, while serving some cutting looks at the politics of the time. At the heart of ?Dark Laughter? is Bootsie, a cunning, conning, girl-chasing ne?er-do-well who is nonetheless beloved in his Harlem community. if often reluctantly. Bootsie is both the victim of the world?s troubles and a frequent cause of them for others.Here?s a collection of prime cartoons from the mid-1950s, drawn with the detailed joy that only Ol Harrington (who also worked as Oliver W. Harrington) could bring, finally available to a larger audience. Record # 377825.…

Trade paperback original. Etat : Fine. Presumed first thus. 146 , [2] pages. Illustrations.This compilation brings us back to the days of yesteryear--no, not the Lone Ranger, but the Cold War. It includes: The JFK Coloring Book, New Frontier Comic Coloring Book, Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev Coloring Book, Khrushchev's Top Secret Coloring Book, and The John Birch Coloring Book.The Dedication reads, in part, "Special thanks go to .Lynne Haims of Ground Zero Books, whose efforts above and beyond the call of duty helped make this book possible." About Comics is a publisher of comics and comics-related material founded in 1998 by Nat Gertler.[According to Gertler, it is intended to be "[neither] a mainstream comics publisher, nor an alternative comics publisher".The company has published works by such comics writers as Kurt Busiek and Charles M. Schulz, as well as producing books such as Panel One and Panel Two, featuring comic scripts written by a number of top comics writers. Several of About Comics' bestsellers have been works that have been rediscovered and republished, including several books of little-known early comics work by Charles M. Schulz. Part of the motivation for the line is the company founder's own interests and past success with genre specific works. About Comics founded 24 Hour Comics Day, an annual event that now includes comics creators in over twenty countries participating in the creation of over 10,000 comic pages every year.…