Jerry Craft

Mama's Boyz follows the lives of African American single mother Pauline Porter and her two teenage sons Tyrell and Yusuf. Other characters include Pauline's brother Greg and their parents.

Mama's Boyz is the outgrowth of a prior strip called The Outside View, which Craft first self-syndicated in 1987. In 1990, he adapted some elements of The Outside View to create Mama's Boyz, which he self-syndicated to New York's The City Sun and eventually a number of other weekly papers across the country. In 1995, Mama's Boyz was picked up for weekly syndication by King Features.[1]

Mama's Boyz has been praised in Great Books for African American Children, and featured in Chicken Soup for the African American Soul, Chicken Soup for the African American Woman's Soul, and The Complete Idiot's Guide to Comedy Writing. The Mama's Boyz characters also act as official "spokescharacters" of the American Diabetes Association's African-American Program.

Published in 2019, New Kid tells the story of Jordan Banks, an African-American seventh grader who begins attending a predominantly white, affluent, private school.[8] The book is a partially autobiographical coming of age novel.[9] As one of the few African-American students at his school, Jordan has to face daily microagressions.[10]

• As American as Sweet Potato Pie! (American Publishing Company, 1997)
• Home Schoolin’ – Because Learning Shouldn’t Stop at 3 O’Clock (Mama's Boyz, Inc., 2007) — endorsed by both Teachers Against Prejudice and Comics in the Classroom
• The Big Picture: What you Need to Succeed! (Mama's Boyz, Inc., 2010)[15]

• (with writer Lori Nelson) Hillary’s Big Business Adventure (Nelson Publishing, 2008)
• (with writer Margo Candelario) Looking to the Clouds for Daddy (Karen Hunter Media, 2009)
• (with writer David Miller) Khalil's Way (Urban Leadership Institute, 2012)