Barbara Brandon-Croft

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S.W. Conser
Produced by: 
KBOO
Program:: 
Words and Pictures
Air date: 
Thu, 02/22/2024 - 11:30am to 12:00pm
Where I'm Coming From author Barbara Brandon-Croft talks about the African-American women who populate her comics with S.W. Conser on Words and Pictures on KBOO Radio
A trailblazing comics artist releases a retrospective, Where I’m Coming From


Barbara Brandon-Croft is the very first African-American woman whose nationally-syndicated comic strip ran in the mainstream press.  Now a new collection of her work, Where I’m Coming From, has been published.

Barbara sits down with S.W. Conser to talk about the comics community and art exhibitions, politics and race, history and fashion, and the influence of her groundbreaking cartoonist father, Brumsic Brandon Jr.

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Topic tags: 
Arts/Culture, Media, Fiction, Humor, Race, African American, Women, Community Building
Genre(s): 
Arts and Culture

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