{"product_id":"all-your-racial-problems-will-soon-end-isbn-9781681376738","title":"All Your Racial Problems Will Soon End","description":"\u003cb\u003eYears before he wrote his National Book Award–winning novel \u003ci\u003eMiddle Passage\u003c\/i\u003e, Charles Johnson created these sidesplitting and subversive gag comics about Black life in America, now collected for the first time in nearly half a century.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBefore Charles Johnson found fame as a novelist and won the National Book Award for \u003ci\u003eMiddle Passage \u003c\/i\u003ein 1991, he was a cartoonist, and a very good one. Taught via correspondence course by the comics editor Lawrence Lariar, mentored by the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e cartoonist Charles Barsotti, and inspired by the call of the poet Amiri Baraka to celebrate and depict Black life in America, Johnson crafted some of the fiercest and funniest cartoons of the twentieth century. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReimagining the gag comic as a powerful and incendiary tool, Johnson tackled America’s mid-century afflictions—segregation, inner-city poverty, police brutality, and white supremacy—by craftily subverting stale gag tropes. He populated them with bullet-dodging Black Panthers, doubt-filled Klansmen, militant babies, selfserving politicians, and complacent suburban liberals. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collection, Johnson’s first in nearly fifty years, brings together work from across his career: college newspaper gags, selections from his books \u003ci\u003eBlack Humor\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHalf-Past Nation Time\u003c\/i\u003e, his unpublished manuscript \u003ci\u003eLumps in the Melting Pot\u003c\/i\u003e, and uncollected pieces. Taken together, this volume reveals Johnson as long overdue for appreciation as a cartoonist of the first order.\"Biting and effective parody. . . . If there’s one takeaway from \u003ci\u003eAll Your Racial Problems Will Soon End\u003c\/i\u003e, it’s the satisfaction that Charles Johnson’s humor has been on point for over 60 years.\"\u003cbr\u003e —Andrew Montiveo, \u003ci\u003eThe Los Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The first collection of his comics in more than 50 years, \u003ci\u003eAll Your Racial Problems Will Soon End\u003c\/i\u003e – which takes its title from one of his ever-caustic captions – invites the reader to roll their eyes at society’s absurdities and ponder what’s changed since the ’70s. Some of his comics memorialize a long-past cultural moment, while others remain glaringly relevant. All feature his characteristic sharp wit and supple line.\" —Etelka Lehoczky, Books We Love 2022, NPR\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The cartoons are blunt, in-your-face, and, often, still funny-and-fresh lampoons of racial mores and manners. . . .these crafty single-panel drawings resonate with rueful nostalgia, roughhousing wit, and. . .some eerie convergences with present-day turmoil. . . . An illuminating, warmhearted souvenir of a tumultuous era.\" —\u003ci\u003eKirkus Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Johnson has maintained his visual creativity, pushing limits, inspiring and illuminating with sly humor and biting insight. . . .The brilliant cartoon which inspired the title is shocking genius, sure to elicit uncomfortable, unavoidable laughter . . . exactly what this collection should do for lucky readers.\" —Terry Hong, \u003ci\u003eBooklist starred review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Johnson’s caricaturing, deceptively simple art style reflects the broad-stroke political comics of ’60s–’70s funnies—there’s plenty of silliness and romantic\/domestic humor, but the apparent breeziness belies their unflinching, often incendiary views and subversive force. . . .This provocative compendium shines a spotlight on Johnson’s essential contributions to comics’ literary history.\" —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eCharles Johnson\u003c\/b\u003e is a novelist, essayist, literary scholar, philosopher, cartoonist, screenwriter, and professor emeritus at the University of Washington in Seattle. A MacArthur Fellow, he won the National Book Award for his novel \u003ci\u003eMiddle Passage\u003c\/i\u003e in 1990. He is one of the artists and contributors featured in \u003ci\u003eIt’s Life as I See It: Black Cartoonists in Chicago, 1940–1980\u003c\/i\u003e, published by New York Review Comics.","brand":"New York Review Comics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300155117797,"sku":"NP9781681376738","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781681376738.jpg?v=1767721322","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/all-your-racial-problems-will-soon-end-isbn-9781681376738","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}