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*Starred Review* A stylish woman holds a newspaper behind her back as a perky little girl enters the room and says, “I don’t want to be touchy on the subject . . . but, that new little white tea-kettle just whistled at me!” Published in the wake of the 1955 murder in Mississippi of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old African American who allegedly whistled at a white woman, this is one of hundreds of seductive, technically exceptional, and slyly hard-hitting newspaper cartoons created by Jackie Ormes (1911–85), “the first and only” African American woman cartoonist of her time. An artist of conscience and a prominent activist, the glamorous Ormes entertained, inspired, and provoked readers with her unique female characters, especially precocious, sharp-tongued five-year-old Patty-Jo and her forbearing fashion-plate older sister, Ginger. In the first book devoted to Ormes, Goldstein not only recounts with enthusiasm the trailblazing cartoonist’s remarkable story from her birth in Pittsburgh to her celebrity-filled life in Chicago but also keenly analyzes Ormes’ influential cartoons and the role black newspapers played in the struggle for racial equality. With a generous selection of Ormes’ “forward-looking” cartoons resurrected for the first time, this is one exciting and significant book. Viva Jackie Ormes. --Donna Seaman
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*Starred Review* A stylish woman holds a newspaper behind her back as a perky little girl enters the room and says, “I don’t want to be touchy on the subject . . . but, that new little white tea-kettle just whistled at me!” Published in the wake of the 1955 murder in Mississippi of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old African American who allegedly whistled at a white woman, this is one of hundreds of seductive, technically exceptional, and slyly hard-hitting newspaper cartoons created by Jackie Ormes (1911–85), “the first and only” African American woman cartoonist of her time. An artist of conscience and a prominent activist, the glamorous Ormes entertained, inspired, and provoked readers with her unique female characters, especially precocious, sharp-tongued five-year-old Patty-Jo and her forbearing fashion-plate older sister, Ginger. In the first book devoted to Ormes, Goldstein not only recounts with enthusiasm the trailblazing cartoonist’s remarkable story from her birth in Pittsburgh to her celebrity-filled life in Chicago but also keenly analyzes Ormes’ influential cartoons and the role black newspapers played in the struggle for racial equality. With a generous selection of Ormes’ “forward-looking” cartoons resurrected for the first time, this is one exciting and significant book. Viva Jackie Ormes. --Donna Seaman
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"In the first book devoted to Ormes, Goldstein not only recounts with enthusiasm the trailblazing cartoonist's remarkable story . . . but also keenly analyzes Ormes's influential cartoons and the role black newspapers played in the struggle for racial equality. With a generous selection of Ormes's forward-looking cartoons resurrected for the first time, this is one exciting and significant book. Viva Jackie Ormes."
---Booklist
"I am so delighted to see an entire book about the great Jackie Ormes! This is a book that will appeal to multiple audiences: comics scholars, feminists, African Americans, and doll collectors."
---Trina Robbins, author of A Century of Women Cartoonists and The Great Women Cartoonists
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I first encountered Jackie Ormes's remarkable cartoons in the microfilm room of the University of Michigan Library. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
dark laughter, national edition, ethnic images, cartooning days, color comic section, male cartoonists, black cartoonists, women cartoonists, factory artists, single panel cartoon, colored dolls, mainstream papers, doll company, black dolls, pinup art, other cartoonists, white dolls Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Jackie Ormes, New York, African American, Terri Lee, Torchy Brown, Pittsburgh Courier, United States, Chicago Defender, The Chicago Years, Communist Party, World War, Oxford University Press, March of Dimes, Torchy Togs, Doll Designing, Ann Arbor, The Great Women Cartoonists, Chester Commodore, Oliver Harrington, Sutherland Hotel, House Un-American Activities Committee, South Side, Social Whirl, Soviet Union, Myla Perkins Browse Sample Pages:
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I first encountered Jackie Ormes's remarkable cartoons in the microfilm room of the University of Michigan Library. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
dark laughter, national edition, ethnic images, cartooning days, color comic section, male cartoonists, black cartoonists, women cartoonists, factory artists, single panel cartoon, colored dolls, mainstream papers, doll company, black dolls, pinup art, other cartoonists, white dolls Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Jackie Ormes, New York, African American, Terri Lee, Torchy Brown, Pittsburgh Courier, United States, Chicago Defender, The Chicago Years, Communist Party, World War, Oxford University Press, March of Dimes, Torchy Togs, Doll Designing, Ann Arbor, The Great Women Cartoonists, Chester Commodore, Oliver Harrington, Sutherland Hotel, House Un-American Activities Committee, South Side, Social Whirl, Soviet Union, Myla Perkins Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Front Flap | First Pages | Index | Back Flap | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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