OTBP: New Jackie Ormes Book The new Jackie Ormes book by Nancy Goldstein, Jackie Ormes: The First African American Woman Cartoonist, doesn't lack for fascinating subject matter: Ormes' laudatory career, the thriving black community in Chicago in the mid-20th Century, black newspapers and their role in the communities they were sold, the lack of merchandising aimed at black children, left-leaning politics of the era, investigations into the same, women working in fields where men dominated... kind of a laundry list of things I like to read about. It's also by a publisher that as I recall seems interested in doing some comics-related books, the University of Michigan Press. There's a web site here, and Editor & Publisher covers the release here.
The new Jackie Ormes book by Nancy Goldstein, Jackie Ormes: The First African American Woman Cartoonist, doesn't lack for fascinating subject matter: Ormes' laudatory career, the thriving black community in Chicago in the mid-20th Century, black newspapers and their role in the communities they were sold, the lack of merchandising aimed at black children, left-leaning politics of the era, investigations into the same, women working in fields where men dominated... kind of a laundry list of things I like to read about. It's also by a publisher that as I recall seems interested in doing some comics-related books, 
