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- Jackie Ormes: The First African American Woman Cartoonist chronicles the life of a multiply talented woman who became a successful cartoonist.
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Jackie Ormes
American cartoonist
Jackie Ormes (August 1, 1911 – December 26, 1985) was an American cartoonist. She is known as the first African-American woman cartoonist and creator of the Torchy Browncomic strip and the Patty-Jo 'n' Gingerpanel.
Early life and career
Jackie Ormes was born Zelda Mavin Jackson[1][2] on August 1, 1911,[3] in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to parents William Winfield Jackson and Mary Brown Jackson.[4] Her father William, the owner of a printing company and movie theater proprietor, was killed in an automobile accident in 1917.[4] This resulted in the then six-year old Jackie and her older sister Dolores being placed in the care of their aunt and uncle for a brief period of time.[4] Eventually, Jackie's mother remarried and the family relocated to the nearby city of Monongahela. Ormes described the suburb in a 1985 interview for the Chicago Reader as "spread out and simple. Nothing momentous ever happens here." She graduated from high school in Monongahela in 1930.[4 Zelda Mavin Jackson Cartoonist, newspaper comics Torchy Brown in "Dixie to Harlem", Candy, Patty Jo 'n' Ginger, Torchy in Heartbeats Jackie Ormes was born Zelda Mavin Jackson in Monongahela, Pennsylvania. Ormes started in journalism as a proofreader for the Pittsburgh Courier, a weekly African American newspaper that came out every Saturday. Her 1937-38 Courier comic strip, Torchy Brown in "Dixie to Harlem" , starring Torchy Brown, was a humorous depiction of a Mississippi teen who found fame and fortune singing and dancing in the Cotton Club. Ormes moved to Chicago in 1942, and soon began writing occasional articles and, briefly, a social column for the Chicago Defender, one of the nation's leading black newspapers, a weekly at that time. For a few months at the end of the war, her single panel cartoon, Candy, about an attractive and wisecrack ByNancy Goldstein DOI: https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.150236 Request Desk or Examination Copy | Request Media Review Copy Look InsidePreview on Google Books Now in paperback—the biography of a pioneering woman artist and the characters she created At a time of few opportunities for women in general and even fewer for African American women, Jackie Ormes (1911–85) blazed a trail as a popular cartoonist with the major black newspapers of the day. Her cartoon characters (including Torchy Brown, Candy, Patty-Jo, and Ginger) delighted readers and spawned other products, including an elegant doll with a stylish wardrobe and “Torchy Togs” paper dolls. Ormes was a member of Chicago’s black elite, with a social circle that included the leading political figures and entertainers of the day. Her cartoons and comic strips provide an invaluable glimpse into American culture and history, with topics that include racial segregation, U.S. foreign policy, educational equality, the atom bomb, and envi
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Jackie Ormes
The First African American Woman Cartoonist
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