Go, Read: NYT On The Passing Of Brumsic Brandon, Jr.

Paul Vitello has a smart, respectful obituary up at the New York Times on the late Brumsic Brandon Jr., the cartoonist behind Luther. It relies heavily on the information provided the Times by Barbara Brandon-Croft, the cartoonist's daughter and a nationally syndicated cartoonist of historical importance herself. Luther was one of a trio of early comic strips by black cartoonists to find their way into newspapers and national syndication. As I recall, there has always been some sort of dissonance about who among Brandon Jr., Morrie Turner and maybe Ted Shearer about who was exactly first doing what, although there's plenty to have been accomplished at that moment in time and each man enjoyed significant achievement. Luther ran on Long Island for a couple of years before national syndication, which ended in the late 1980s.
 
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