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500 Issues, the Juneteenth episode: Black Creators, Paraliterature, and Golden Age comic books

500 Issues, the Juneteenth episode: Black Creators, Paraliterature, and Golden Age comic books

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To help celebrate Juneteenth, I made an episode in which I discuss Black creators of paraliterature, which (as I'm sure you know) is all of that literature which is not "respectable" or within the margins of "recognized literature." Naturally, there's too much to say to limit myself to only Black comics writers and artists, so I went back to the 17th century and started there. I discuss the Purtians, chapbooks, slave narratives and the work of "free Negroes," The Black Vampyre: A Legend of St. Domingo, novelettes of the Mexican-American War, dime novels and the story of the sole Black dime novel author we know about, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, how much we don't know about the authors of the pulps, which science fiction pulps were popular in which Black neighborhoods, and various Black artists of comics' Golden Age, including Adolpe Barreaux, E.C. Stoner, Robert Savon Pious, and Jay Paul Jackson, and then finally Iceberg Slim.

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