Bungleton Green News Today

Written during World War II, Bungleton Green and the Mystic Commandos offered its readers a science-fiction epic that imagined a future liberated from racism and inequality.

The return of 1990s trailblazer Julie Doucet, who quit a mostly homogenous, male-dominated industry, is emblematic of the sea change within comics, showcased in an extraordinarily diverse crowd of creators debuting this spring.

An anthology of Black comic book makers from the the postwar era offers a glimpse into a genre of art that skewered the bigotry of white liberalism.  

Published in conjunction with an exhibition at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Black Cartoonists in Chicago, 1940-1980 features work from nine prominent Black cartoonists, plus a painted cover by Kerry James Marshall.