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Comic and Graphic Books. Fiction. Literature. Few Black cartoonists have entered national syndication, and before Barbara Brandon-Croft, none of them were women. From 1989 to 2005, she brought Black women's perspectives to an international audience with her trailblazing comic strip Where I'm Coming From. From diets to day care to debt to dreaded encounters with everyday racism, no issue is off-limits. This remarkable and unapologetically funny career retrospective holds a mirror up to the ways society has changed and all the ways it hasn't. The magic in Where I'm Coming From is its ability to present an honest image of Black life without sacrificing Black joy, bolstered by unexpected one-liners eliciting much-needed laughter. As the daughter of the mid-century cartoonist Brumsic Brandon Jr.�??the creator of Luther, the second nationally syndicated strip to feature a Black lead�??Brandon-Croft learned from the best. With supplementary writing by the author and her peers alongside throwback ephemera, this long-overdue collection situates Brandon-Croft as an inimitable cartoonist, humorist, and social commentator, securing her place in the comics canon and allowing her work to inspire new readers at a time when it is most n… (more)
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One way this book could have been better would have been for it to include someone whose politics were right of center. The cartoonist may have grown up in Washington, D.C., where advocates of tighter government budgets tend to be quiet, but still, this book is unbalanced and thus fails to represent Black women like Stacey Dash. It does a splendid job of representing Maxine Waters' fans.