[Electricmastro]

Been researching black comic book artists that drew comic book stories in the Golden Age and this list is what I

[mopee167]

[mopee167]

George Corley? Whodat?

[Electricmastro]

George Corley? Whodat?

Thanks for the info on Adolphe Barreaux. As for George Corley, he was an artist reported in Jerry Bails

[mopee167]

Thanks, Electrimastro. I was not familiar with that artist.

The story, of course, is a riff on Hans Christian Anderson's 1843 story,

[mopee167]

re: GEORGE ANDREW CORLEY
U.S. TEAM SKI TRYOUTS / MT. HOOD OREGON. 1939. 29 3/4x22 inches, 76 1/2x56 cm.

http://www.artnet.com/artists/george-andrew-corley/

[Electricmastro]

Do you have any more information on Owen Middleton?

Middleton, made known to me by Ken Quattro, was said to be an artist serving an apparent life-sentence in prison in the early 1930s, though this seems to have been either an exaggeration, a sentence later reduced, or incorrect, due to his later actions being reported as if he

[The Ghost Man]

George Herriman, the comic strip artist for Krazy Kat was of mixed African-American ancestry.

Thanks for creating this post Electricmastro, and for those interested Ken Quattro will release his new, well-researched book on this very subject this December 2020 entitled: Invisible Men: The Trailblazing Black Artists of Comic Books  "https://www.amazon.com/Invisible-Men-Artists-Golden-Comics/dp/1684055865/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=invisible+men+ken+quattro&qid=1558989542&s=books&sr=1-1"

[Electricmastro]

George Herriman, the comic strip artist for Krazy Kat was of mixed African-American ancestry.

Thanks for creating this post Electricmastro, and for those interested Ken Quattro will release his new, well-researched book on this very subject this December 2020 entitled: Invisible Men: The Trailblazing Black Artists of Comic Books  "https://www.amazon.com/Invisible-Men-Artists-Golden-Comics/dp/1684055865/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=invisible+men+ken+quattro&qid=1558989542&s=books&sr=1-1"

I wasn

[Captain Audio]

Middleton, made known to me by Ken Quattro, was said to be an artist serving an apparent life-sentence in prison in the early 1930s, though this seems to have been either an exaggeration, a sentence later reduced, or incorrect, due to his later actions being reported as if he

[Andrew999]

You are indeed thinking of William Chester Minor - a strange story -  a major contributor, although in fairness, many others contributed:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Chester_Minor

[Robb_K]

Middleton, made known to me by Ken Quattro, was said to be an artist serving an apparent life-sentence in prison in the early 1930s, though this seems to have been either an exaggeration, a sentence later reduced, or incorrect, due to his later actions being reported as if he

[The Australian Panther]

This reminded me of a strange fact.
The First Oxford Dictionary was complied by an American serving life imprisonment in a British asylum for the criminally insane. He had killed a man during a psychotic episode brought on by his uncontrollable alcoholism. Apparently when sober he was a bloody genius.

Subject of the 2019 film, The Professor and the Madman.

Professor James Murray begins work compiling words for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in the mid-19th century, and receives over 10,000 entries from a patient at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Dr. William Minor.

Mel Gibson plays James Murray and  Sean Penn [But of course!] plays Dr William Minor, the madman. 

[mopee167]

Owen C. Middleton...  was said to be an artist serving an apparent life-sentence in prison in the early 1930s, though this seems to have been either an exaggeration, a sentence later reduced, or incorrect, due to his later actions being reported as if he

[Electricmastro]

Owen C. Middleton...  was said to be an artist serving an apparent life-sentence in prison in the early 1930s, though this seems to have been either an exaggeration, a sentence later reduced, or incorrect, due to his later actions being reported as if he

[The Australian Panther]

Should I remove Owen Middleton

[Electricmastro]

Should I remove Owen Middleton

[Electricmastro]

Black artists at PulpArtists:

Robert Pious - https://www.pulpartists.com/Pious.html



Elmer Stoner - https://www.pulpartists.com/Stoner.html



Elton Fax - https://www.pulpartists.com/Fax.html



Harper Johnson - https://www.pulpartists.com/Johnson.html



Adolphe Barreaux -

https://www.pulpartists.com/Barreaux.html

[Electricmastro]

Matt Baker (Fight Comics #43, April 1946):

[The Australian Panther]

From the Staff of the School of Industrial Art: Alvin Hollingsworth.

From your list of Black Comic Artists. 

A. C. Hollingsworth

Here is his Lambiek entry.
https://www.lambiek.net/artists/h/hollingsworth_alvin.htm

Here are some of his Fine Art works. I'm impressed.
https://www.artsy.net/artist/alvin-hollingsworth
More here.
https://www.pinterest.com.au/anne_goldstein/art-by-alvin-c-hollingsworth/
I love his Don Quixote!
Article: How the Spiral Group Amplified the Diversity of Black Artists in 1960s America
https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-spiral-group-amplified-diversity-black-artists-1960s-america

The group

[Electricmastro]

From the Staff of the School of Industrial Art: Alvin Hollingsworth.

From your list of Black Comic Artists. 

A. C. Hollingsworth

Here is his Lambiek entry.
https://www.lambiek.net/artists/h/hollingsworth_alvin.htm

Here are some of his Fine Art works. I'm impressed.
https://www.artsy.net/artist/alvin-hollingsworth
More here.
https://www.pinterest.com.au/anne_goldstein/art-by-alvin-c-hollingsworth/
I love his Don Quixote!
Article: How the Spiral Group Amplified the Diversity of Black Artists in 1960s America
https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-spiral-group-amplified-diversity-black-artists-1960s-america

The group

[Andrew999]

This is now available:

https://www.cbr.com/idw-black-comic-book-creators/

A valuable resource I should say

[Electricmastro]

Floyd Norman was said to have worked on comic books as early as inking for Archie?s Laugh Comics #43 (February, 1951). Couldnt find any of the actual art though.

[Electricmastro]

John Terrell?s art from All-Negro Comics #1 (June, 1947):



John Terrell from The Indianapolis Recorder (August 22, 1959):

[Electricmastro]

On the Ancestry site Fold3, there are a host of World War II registration cards, one of which belongs to a *Howard James* of Timely Comics, and identifies himself as *Negro.* Couldnt see much beyond that due to membership registration though.

https://www.fold3.com/search?keywords=Timely+Comics&full-name~=Howard+James