Tom Feelings
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Tom Feelings was an artist and illustrator, author, teacher and activist.
Through his works, he framed the African-American experience. His most famous book is The Middle Passage. Feelings was born and raised in Brooklyn, N.Y.. He attended the School of the Visual Arts and later lived in Ghana
and Guyana
. He was the recipient of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Tom Feelings was a skilled cartoonist. He created the groundbreaking comic strip Tommy Traveler In the World of Black History for the New York Age in 1958 after leaving the Air Force. Based on his own experience after discovering the adult section of the public library while researching a school project, Tommy Traveler is a black youth's dream adventures in American History while reading of notable black heroes. This material was released in book form in 1991. Another early piece was for Look magazine, doing portraits of children in New Orleans in 1962. Also about 1960 he illustrated the NAACP's four color comic for voter registration The Street Where You Live. Around 1968 he met Bertram Fitzgerald and he became one of the first contributors to his new line of black history comics with the umbrella title of Golden Legacy. According to Fitzgerald(*), at this time Feelings had done a previous biography of Crispus Attucks, the first casualty of the American Revolution, which was adapted into the Golden Legacy series. This may have been the 1968 Nobel Heritage publication, which shows some stylistic similarities to his art, but if so, it seems to have been inked by someone else.
He died in Mexico
Image: http://www.tfaoi.com/am/10am/10am96.jpg
Through his works, he framed the African-American experience. His most famous book is The Middle Passage. Feelings was born and raised in Brooklyn, N.Y.. He attended the School of the Visual Arts and later lived in Ghana
Ghana
Ghana , officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country located in West Africa. It is bordered by Côte d'Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, Togo to the east, and the Gulf of Guinea to the south...
and Guyana
Guyana
Guyana , officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, previously the colony of British Guiana, is a sovereign state on the northern coast of South America that is culturally part of the Anglophone Caribbean. Guyana was a former colony of the Dutch and of the British...
. He was the recipient of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Tom Feelings was a skilled cartoonist. He created the groundbreaking comic strip Tommy Traveler In the World of Black History for the New York Age in 1958 after leaving the Air Force. Based on his own experience after discovering the adult section of the public library while researching a school project, Tommy Traveler is a black youth's dream adventures in American History while reading of notable black heroes. This material was released in book form in 1991. Another early piece was for Look magazine, doing portraits of children in New Orleans in 1962. Also about 1960 he illustrated the NAACP's four color comic for voter registration The Street Where You Live. Around 1968 he met Bertram Fitzgerald and he became one of the first contributors to his new line of black history comics with the umbrella title of Golden Legacy. According to Fitzgerald(*), at this time Feelings had done a previous biography of Crispus Attucks, the first casualty of the American Revolution, which was adapted into the Golden Legacy series. This may have been the 1968 Nobel Heritage publication, which shows some stylistic similarities to his art, but if so, it seems to have been inked by someone else.
He died in Mexico
Image: http://www.tfaoi.com/am/10am/10am96.jpg
External links
- http://www.nathanielturner.com/tomfeelings.htm
- http://www.juneteenth.com/Tom_Feelings.htm
- http://www.tfaoi.com/aa/1aa/1aa677.htm
- http://www.tomchristopher.com/?op=home/Comic%20History/Bertram%20A.%20Fitzgerald%20and%20the%20Golden%20Legacy%20Series%20of%20Black%20History%20Comics
- http://www.golden-legacy.com/