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Publication Date: January 2002

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About Comics

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Indicia Publisher: About Comics

On Sale Date: 01/2022

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Pages: 160

ISBN: 9781949996357

UPC/EAN: 978194999635790000

Price: $18.00 USD

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Content Items: 7 (0 stories, 1 cover)

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Notes: A collection of Ollie Harrington's Dark Laughter cartoons from 1954 to 1958.

Cartoons (c) 2021 by Dr. Helma Harrington, Berlin. Compilation (c) 2021 About Comics. A print on demand title first printed in January 2022.

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Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: two colour cover; black and white interior

Dimensions: 8.5 in. x 11 in.

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Binding: perfect bound

Publishing Format: one shot

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Content Items (7 total)

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Illustration on Cover, Front

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Genres: humorous

Character(s): Bootsie

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Bootsie's Big '50s

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Pages: 2

Notes: Title page, credits, and publication data.

Introduction

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First Line: Oliver W. Harrington was a tremendously talented cartoonist whose work was never seen by most of America.

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Notes: Background and context on Ollie Harrington and Dark Laughter, a strip that originally only appeared in Black newspapers in the U.S.

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Genres: humorous

Character(s): Bootsie

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Pages: 147

Notes: 147 single panel cartoons, one per page. Selected cartoons from the Pittsburgh Courier from 1954 to 1958. As noted in the introduction, the Courier was actually a national weekly newspaper produced for black readers in several different editions for different urban markets.

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First Line: 5: The first-time married Porfirio Rubirosa was a Dominican sportsman, diplomat, and celebrated playboy.

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Notes: Notes providing historical context for some of the cartoons.

If You Like Your Cartoons with a Taste of History

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"Negro America's Favorite Cartoonist"

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First Line: That's what Langston Hughes called Ollie Harrington, whose cartoons and comic strips were a staple of America's Black newspapers for decades starting in the 1930s.

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Notes: Back cover description of the book's content; with a spot illustration of Bootsie.