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September 22, 2020 06:22 pm GMT
Original Link: https://boingboing.net/2020/09/22/jackie-orms-was-the-first-black-woman-cartoonist-to-be-published-in-a-newspaper.html
Jackie Orms was the first black woman cartoonist to be published in a newspaper
Shondaland looks at the life of Jackie Orms, a recent inductee into the Will Eisner Comics Hall of Fame. When the 14-year-old African American boy Emmett Till was lynched in 1955, one cartoonist responded in a single-panel comic. It showed one black girl telling another: "I don't want to seem touchy on the subject… but…Original Link: https://boingboing.net/2020/09/22/jackie-orms-was-the-first-black-woman-cartoonist-to-be-published-in-a-newspaper.html
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