On -isms: Black Biography Bibliography

We're winding down Black History Month and we haven't highlighted nearly enough Black creators here. So with this week's column, I'm going to point you to a number of published books about Black creators. This isn't a comprehensive list, by any means. I've focused on books about Black creators, not books about creators that have one or two Black people highlighted, or books that talk about Black characters. I can't say I've read all of them, but I haven't found any yet that weren't worth my time.

• Matt Baker: The Art of Glamour by Jim Amash and Eric Nolen-Weathington
• Black Superheroes, Milestone Comics, and Their Fans by Jeffrey A. Brown
• Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence by Geoffrey Canada and Jamar Nicholas
• Sentences: The Life of M.F. Grimm by Percy Carey and Ronald Wimberly
• Black Comix: African American Independent Comics, Art and Culture by Damian Duffy and John Jennings
• Morrie Turner: Creator of "Wee Pals" by Mary K. Ericsson
• Jackie Ormes: The First African American Woman Cartoonist by Nancy Goldstein
• Why I Left America and Other Essays by Oliver W. Harrington
• Black Comics: Politics of Race and Representation by Sheena C. Howard and Ronald L. Jackson II
• All the Rage: The Boondocks Past and Present by Aaron McGruder
• Modern Masters: Kyle Baker by Eric Nolen-Weathington
• Krazy Kat and The Art of George Herriman: A Celebration by Craig Yoe

That's a really short list, so I'm actually hoping I missed a few. Even so, there's not nearly as many of these types of books as there should be, so encourage comic historians to write more like them. We have barely scratched the surface here.

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