http://www.scrubbles.net/2008/03/14/book-review-jackie-ormes/ Visuals, Words, Sounds and Other Ephemeral Gleamings Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:54:05 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 http://www.scrubbles.net/2008/03/14/book-review-jackie-ormes/comment-page-1/#comment-45663 Free Online Game Thu, 18 Sep 2008 07:26:57 +0000 http://www.scrubbles.net/2008/03/14/book-review-jackie-ormes/#comment-45663 Ormes, who died in 1985, at age 74, isn’t quite a great forgotten voice of cartooning; what’s interesting about her is her historical significance. Only the first two chapters here detail the particulars of her life, though — the rest are devoted to reproductions and discussion of her work, with useful digressions on the hierarchy of black newspapers, the history of doll materials and the cartoonist’s now-arcane allusions to pop culture and fashion. (How did she manage to break through the cartooning world’s barriers? Goldstein doesn’t quite explain, although she cites a newspaper colleague saying that Ormes was talented, nice and good with deadlines.) Very few other women of color have since passed through the professional doors she opened, although the Ormes Society, founded last year, is devoted to raising awareness of black women in the comics industry. Ormes may have realized her dream, but it’s still a dream deferred. Ormes, who died in 1985, at age 74, isn’t quite a great forgotten voice of cartooning; what’s interesting about her is her historical significance. Only the first two chapters here detail the particulars of her life, though — the rest are devoted to reproductions and discussion of her work, with useful digressions on the hierarchy of black newspapers, the history of doll materials and the cartoonist’s now-arcane allusions to pop culture and fashion. (How did she manage to break through the cartooning world’s barriers? Goldstein doesn’t quite explain, although she cites a newspaper colleague saying that Ormes was talented, nice and good with deadlines.) Very few other women of color have since passed through the professional doors she opened, although the Ormes Society, founded last year, is devoted to raising awareness of black women in the comics industry. Ormes may have realized her dream, but it’s still a dream deferred.

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