Cartooning x Culture: A Kids-only Art Class Celebrating Black Comics & Cartoons, Events

Though comics and cartoons have been long-celebrated for their creativity and entertainment value, these mediums can also showcase and highlight different cultures and lived experiences — for people both within and outside different ethnic groups. Join Black cartoonist and educator LJ-Baptiste as he hones in on the various ways our culture can thrive and be highlighted in comic stories and characters. Each registrant will be treated to over $60 worth of art supplies, as well as some seminal Black comics — all for keeps! Registrants may participate in either of TWO Cartooning x Culture workshops taking place at the Mattapan Branch on June 15 or the Roxbury Branch on June 16.

Comic strip, Definition, History, Examples, & Facts

Museum of Fine Arts Global Africas: Pat Masioni Comic Art at MoFA

Fig. 4 Cartoon by Will Owen appearing in The Sketch on April 4, 1917, p. 17. Reproduced by permission of the Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans Picture Library.

How Event Creators Honor Black History Month

Comic strips' history and impact on American culture still relevant

DC announces plans for Black History Month and Milestone's 30th anniversary - GoCollect

How Event Creators Honor Black History Month

Marvel's Artistic New Wave of the 1980s -- Part 2

Black Com!x Day in San Diego celebrates 5 years reminding fans 'the kid in you never dies' - The San Diego Union-Tribune

There's this tendency to sanitize history and to imagine that progress was smooth and bloodless… when it just isn't.” : r/ContraPoints