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Comic book cover featuring Memín Pingüín and his mother. Memín Pinguín was a Mexican comic book character. He was created in 1943 by writer Yolanda Vargas Dulché. Alberto Cabrera took over drawing from 1953 until 1962, followed by Sixto Valencia Burgos.
El Negro Blanco is an Argentine comic strip that was published by the Clarín newspaper from 1987 to 1994. It was written by Carlos Trillo, and drawn by Ernesto García Seijas. The words "negro" and "blanco" mean black and white in Spanish, but Blanco is the family name of the main character and "Negro" is a common Argentinian nickname.
Even in serious comic strips, as late as the 1950s Black characters were drawn with bulging eyes and fat lips. The first major Black character in the comics was in Cartoonist Lee Falk's adventure comic strip Mandrake the Magician, which featured the African supporting character Lothar from its 1934 debut on. He was a former "Prince of the Seven ...
Time magazine in 1947 called All-Negro Comics "the first to be drawn by Negro artists and peopled entirely by Negro characters." In describing lead feature "Ace Harlem", it said, "The villains were a couple of zoot-suited, jive-talking Negro muggers, whose presence in anyone else's comics might have brought up complaints of racial 'distortion.'
Comics like Bitch Planet and Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur showcase Black women and girls in a different light and tackle issue surrounding their women and girlhood. In the comic Bitch Planet, Penny Rolle is a character fighting against the Fatherhood State in charge of the Planet. Her character is a queer Black women, whose body has ...
Orrin Cromwell Evans [1] (1902–1971) [2] was a pioneering African-American journalist and comic book publisher.Considered "the first black writer to cover general assignments for a mainstream white newspaper in the United States," [3] he also published All-Negro Comics, the first known comics magazine written and drawn solely by African-American writers and artists.
José María Del Bó was born on December 9, 1933. [1] [2] He became a professional comics artist at the age of 16 working for the Argentine Poncho Negro series. [1]Due to political instability in Argentina, he moved to Brazil in 1963 and then to the United States two years later. [3]
El Gato Negro (The Black Cat) was an independent comic book series featuring the eponymous character created by Richard Dominguez and published by Azteca Productions.The series began in October 1993; the first edition sold all 5,000 copies within two months, [1] but was placed on a seven-year hiatus after the fourth issue was published.