Barbara Brandon-Croft, the first African American woman with a mainstream syndicated comic strip, has a new book reflecting on her achievement, “Where I’m Coming From: Selected Strips, 1991-2005.”
He knew excellence when he saw it, replying to her: “It’s rare to have such a good ear for nuance and character.” She was on her way.As the next decade dawned, she became the first African American woman ever to have a comic strip, “Where I’m Coming From,” syndicated to the mainstream press.“Where I’m Coming From: Selected Strips, 1991-2005,”
The steps encapsulated the cartoonist’s job, according to her late Washington-born father, Brumsic Brandon Jr., whose comic “Luther,” launched in 1968, is credited with being one of the first mainstream strips ever to have an African American lead character. “Luther” — the title character’s name salutes the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. — grew in popularity alongside such other new diverse strips as Morrie Turner’s “Wee Pals” and Ted Shearer’s “Quincy.
“Her Black female voice and perspective in comics was totally unique in its day and, sadly, still rare to see on the funny pages,” says, the “K Chronicles” and “Knight Life” creator whose comics were adapted into the Hulu show “Woke.” “I hear my aunties’ inner dialogue.” When she was in junior high, “he gave us all an art test,” she says, noting that her brother had a shaky hand and her sister had no interest. It was already evident Brandon-Croft had inherited her father‘s artistic ability. So she got to help cut and apply the gray Zip-A-Tone shading to his “Luther” strips.
He looked to his daughter. Here was her chance. She headed to his family basement studio and went to work creating “Where I’m Coming From,” which in 1989 began appearing in the Free Press.
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