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...papers as the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Dallas Morning News. Stephen Bentley, 37, of Duarte, Calif., has developed a following for Herb & Jamaal, a former professional basketball player and his childhood buddy who decide to run an ice-cream business together. This month the trio will be joined by Barbara Brandon, 32, of Brooklyn, N.Y., the first black female cartoonist to get nationwide exposure. Brandon draws Where I'm Coming From, a Feifferesque view of life seen through the eyes of a group of black female friends...
...black strip," says Sarah Gillespie, director of comic art at United Feature Syndicate, which distributes Jump Start. But the favorable response to the breakthrough artists is having a ripple effect. Earlier this year, Gibson Greetings began marketing a line of cards featuring Armstrong's likable Joe and Marcy. Barbara Brandon is discussing plans with manufacturers to put her characters' faces on coffee mugs and T shirts. "Comic strips are the best visual barometer of the culture," says comics historian Jones. "They reveal the pulse and the heartbeat of what the country is about." Increasingly, the beat has some soul...
...Peanuts gang in 1968; the Afro-wearing Lieut. Flap became the resident militant in Beetle Bailey in 1970. Subsidiary characters popped up in other strips. The movement got an even more important boost when editors drafted black cartoonists and illustrators such as Morrie Turner and Brumsic Brandon Jr., Barbara's father, to create new strips like Wee Pals and Luther, in which blacks were the main characters...
...younger generation is far less conciliatory about making such changes. "The early complaint from the syndicates was that my strip was all women and it was black," says Barbara Brandon. Rather than alter her work, she waited two years until she found a syndicate that would let her do it her way. Now she routinely treats issues like color differences within the black community and the tensions that exist between black men and women...
CONTRIBUTORS: Kurt Andersen, Carl Bernstein, Jesse Birnbaum, Jay Cocks, Barbara Ehrenreich, John Elson, Pico Iyer, Leon Jaroff, Stefan Kanfer, Michael Kinsley, Charles Krauthammer, Dennis Overbye, Richard Schickel, R.Z. Sheppard, John Skow, Richard Stengel, George M. Taber, Andrew Tobias...