![]() ![]() In the Golden Age of comics, Black artists and writers quietly contributed to the sequential art medium. ![]() So while the book doesn't cover the history of syndicated cartoons or the contributions of artists such as Jackie Ormes or Floyd Norman, it does give a glimpse into a world that very few know to exist: a history the author tells SYFY WIRE he feels has been categorically erased. Sims Campbell may not be household names, but they are part of the group introduced in Invisible Men who profoundly affected not just African American visibility in comics, but who also helped shape the comic book industry itself.īoth graphic novel and history book, Invisible Men chronicles Black artists' work during the Golden Age through 1950 (a timeline Quattro created for himself to keep the text under the 300-page limit requested by IDW). DuBois, the author describes the African American experience as a "Double Consciousness," a psychological condition brought on from living in a world as a Black person "through the eyes of racist white people." Comic historian Ken Quattro was profoundly affected by DuBois' work while he conducted research for IDW's Invisible Men: The Trailblazing Black Artists of Comic Books, his new book chronicling the lives and work of 18 Black men the comic book industry not only forgot but barely acknowledged existed. In The Souls of Black Folk, written in 1903 by W.E.B. ![]()
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