Wilbert L. Holloway

Wilbert L. Holloway (1899 - 1969) was a cartoonist in the United States.[1][2][3] He drew the Sunny Boy Sam cartoon for 41 years. It was the second longest running comic strip in the African American press.[4] The cartoon ran in the Pittsburgh Courier and was continued after Holloway's death by another cartoonist. Holloway also did political cartoons.[4] A file on him is held by Ohio State University.[5]

Holloway attended Herron Art School and shared an artist studio with Hale Woodruff before moving to Pittsburgh.[6]

The Sunny Boy Sam trip was comedic. It featured gags and a lead character who played the numbers and appeared with minstrel features and heavy dialect.[7]

In April 1927, Holloway illustrated Langston Hughes' story "Bodies in the Moonlight" in The Messenger.[8][9]

See also

References
  1. "February | 2012 | Stripper's Guide (Test Site) | Page 2". www.strippersguide.com.
  2. "The Messenger". Negro Universities Press. June 1, 1969 – via Google Books.
  3. "Comics of the Smith-Mann Syndicate Part Vll - Sunny Boy Sam | The Museum Of UnCut Funk". museumofuncutfunk.com.
  4. Jackson, Tim (April 21, 2016). Pioneering Cartoonists of Color. Univ. Press of Mississippi. ISBN 9781496804808 – via Google Books.
  5. "Wilbert L. Holloway biographical file". Retrieved 2023-10-15.
  6. Woodruff, Hale Aspacio (June 1, 1979). "Hale Woodruff: 50 Years of His Art". Studio Museum in Harlem – via Google Books.
  7. Howard, Sheena C.; II, Ronald L. Jackson (March 14, 2013). Black Comics: Politics of Race and Representation. A&C Black. ISBN 9781441135285 – via Google Books.
  8. Phylon. Vol. 8. Negro Universities Press. 1926 – via Google Books.
  9. Emanuel, James A. (1961). "Langston Hughes' First Short Story: "Mary Winosky"". Phylon. 22 (3): 267–272. doi:10.2307/274201. JSTOR 274201.
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