It's Life As I See It, Black Cartoonists in Chicago 1940-1980 Melanie Whelan documenting transgender artist Julia Kaye’s

documenting transgender artist Julia Kaye’s life post-transition

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New York Times bestselling author Lucy Knisley brings to life a story inspired from her own childhood in an amazing journey of unlikely friends

It's Life As I See It, Black Cartoonists in Chicago 1940-1980 Melanie Whelan documenting transgender artist Julia Kaye’sEdited by Dan Nadel, essays by Charles Johnson and Ronald Wimberly, cover designed by Kerry James Marshall. Published by New York Review Comics. Softcover, 200 pages, B&W, 2021. Between the 1940s and 1980s, Chicagos Black pressfrom The Chicago Defender to the Negro Digest to self published pamphletswas home to some of the best cartoonists in America. Kept out of the pages of white owned newspapers, Black cartoonists found space to address the joys,