Comics by Region - African Comics, Asian Comics, European Comics, North American Comics, African Characters in Comics, the 99, Teshkeel Comics (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: African Comics, Asian Comics, European Comics, North American Comics, African Characters in Comics, the 99, Teshkeel Comics, Mfumu'eto, Shujaaz, Majid, Macho Ya Mji, Abunuwasi, Plan9. Excerpt: Characters native to the African continent have been depicted in comics since the beginnings of the modern comic strip. Initially, such early 20th-century newspaper comics as Winsor McCay's Little Nemo depicted the racist stereotype of a spear-carrying cannibal, a comedic convention of the time. African characters later began to appear as another stereotype, the "noble savage" a similar progression to that of depictions of Native Americans and eventually as standard human beings. Cartoonist Lee Falk's adventure comic strip Mandrake the Magician featured the African supporting character Lothar from its 1934 debut on. He was a former "Prince of the Seven Nations", a federation of jungle tribes, but passed on the chance to become king and instead followed Mandrake on his world travels, fighting crime. He is often referred to as the strongest man in the world. Initially an illiterate exotic dressed in animal skins who provided brawn to complement Mandrake's brain on their adventures, he was modernized in 1965 to dress in suits and speak standard English. The publisher All-Negro Comics, Inc. published a single issue of All-Negro Comics (June 1947), a 15-cent omnibus, at a time when comics generally cost a dime, starring characters that included Lion Man. Lion Man is a young African scientist sent by the United Nations to oversee a massive uranium deposit at the African Gold Coast. He is joined by a young war orphan named Bubba, and fights the villainous Doctor Blut Sangro. It wasn't until Waku, Prince of the Bantu in the omnibus Jungle Tales from Marvel Co... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=5349729