This kid strip was syndicated to the Negro press in the 1950s;these strips were taken from the pages of the Florida Star, which stopped running Breezy after the Feb. 11 edition. There is more information about this book at the bottom of the page
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Tap Melvin was a pseudonym for New York cartoonist Melvin Tapley. He was born in 1918 or 1919, and studied at the Art Students League, then did an undergraduate degree at New York University and a Masters at Columbia. He worked at the Amsterdam News beginning in 1942 and was their arts and entertainment editor until he retired in 1997; he also drew editorial cartoons and a comic strip called Jim Steele. He was president of his local chapter of the NAACP during the 1960s and died in 2005. (All according to the Strippers Guide blog for February 3, 2012, which reproduces some of Tapley's other work).
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