The path towards the creation of Torchy started after Bill Ward was drafted in December 1942. Stationed at Quonset Point Naval Air Base in Rhode Island, Ward was approached to do a comic strip in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The world of comics continues to expand and become more diverse. Women like Nilah Magruder, Eve Ewing, Stephanie Williams, and ...

It's 1937, and young Torchy Brown is about to board a train that will whisk her away from her small, Southern town to the Big Apple. Suddenly, a sign with two arrows catches her eye. One arrow points ...

ONE OF the more essential obligations of a hall of fame is to illuminate anew the world-class talents that generations may have forgotten. This week, the Will Eisner Comic Awards Hall of Fame ...

In a textbook case of pop culture archaeology uncovering a forgotten pioneer, Nancy Goldstein’s Jackie Ormes: The First African-American Woman Cartoonist (Univ. of Michigan) offers a fascinating look ...

Jackie Ormes laid a foundation for Black and other women of color comics as the first Black woman cartoonist in the late 1930s. The world of comics continues to expand and become more diverse. Women ...