{"id":50045,"date":"2022-12-04T12:12:44","date_gmt":"2022-12-04T17:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=50045"},"modified":"2022-11-20T10:00:50","modified_gmt":"2022-11-20T15:00:50","slug":"all-your-racial-problems-will-soon-end-the-cartoons-of-charles-johnson-by-charles-johnson-in-booklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/all-your-racial-problems-will-soon-end-the-cartoons-of-charles-johnson-by-charles-johnson-in-booklist\/","title":{"rendered":"All Your Racial Problems Will Soon End: The Cartoons of Charles Johnson by Charles Johnson [in Booklist]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-49925\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/10\/All-Your-Racial-Problems-Will-End-Charles-Johnson-BookDragon-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"771\" \/>*STARRED REVIEW<\/strong><br \/>\nProdigious National Book Award-winning, 1998 MacArthur \u201cGenius\u201d Charles Johnson is now in his 70s, having been repeatedly lauded in multiple genres. Perhaps not as well known is that Johnson began his literary career as a cartoonist (in high school!) \u2013 and never stopped drawing, even as he was winning acclaim as a novelist, essayist, scholar, screenwriter, and more.<\/p>\n<p>This landmark compilation gathers decades of his graphic work, including three pivotal, now-rare books: 1970\u2019s <em>Black Humor\u00a0<\/em>(\u201cmy imagination felt free, as if its own Juneteenth had arrived\u201d), 1972\u2019s\u00a0<em>Half-Past Nation Time\u00a0<\/em>(published by \u201ca flight-by-night operation that disappeared right after sending [Johnson his] author\u2019s copies\u201d), and 1973\u2019s\u00a0<em>Lumps in the Melting Pot\u00a0<\/em>(his \u201clast cartoon manuscript because in 1973, [he] was fully immersed in novel-writing\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>Through ongoing freelance opportunities and \u201cmak[ing] up assignments for [him]self\u201d \u2013 illustrating his daughter\u2019s YA books, for example \u2013 Johnson has maintained his visual creativity, pushing limits, inspiring, and illuminating with sly humor and biting insight. Despite the over half-century represented here, the promise of the title \u2013 <em>All<\/em><em>\u00a0Your Racial Problems Will Soon\u00a0<\/em><em>End\u00a0\u2013 <\/em>has yet to be ubiquitously realized. The brilliant cartoon that inspired the title is shocking genius, sure to elicit uncomfortable, unavoidable laughter &#8230; exactly what this collection should do for lucky readers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booklistonline.com\/All-Your-Racial-Problems-Will-Soon-End-The-Cartoons-of-Charles-Johnson-\/pid=9768880\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">&#8220;Graphic Novels,&#8221; <em>Booklist<\/em>, October 15, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*STARRED REVIEW Prodigious National Book Award-winning, 1998 MacArthur \u201cGenius\u201d Charles Johnson is now in his 70s, having been repeatedly lauded in multiple genres. Perhaps not as well known is that Johnson began his literary career as a cartoonist (in high school!) \u2013 and never stopped&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,142,6,73,6535],"tags":[10626,89,6608,6668,10627,11,24,51,29],"class_list":["post-50045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-readers","category-black-african-american","category-fiction","category-graphic-novel-manga-manwha","category-repost","tag-all-your-racial-problems-will-soon-end-the-cartoons-of-charles-johnson","tag-anthology-collection","tag-bookdragon","tag-booklist","tag-charles-johnson","tag-friendship","tag-historical","tag-identity","tag-race-racism"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>All Your Racial Problems Will Soon End: The Cartoons of Charles Johnson by Charles Johnson [in Booklist] - BookDragon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/all-your-racial-problems-will-soon-end-the-cartoons-of-charles-johnson-by-charles-johnson-in-booklist\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"All Your Racial Problems Will Soon End: The Cartoons of Charles Johnson by Charles Johnson [in Booklist] - BookDragon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"*STARRED REVIEW Prodigious National Book Award-winning, 1998 MacArthur \u201cGenius\u201d Charles Johnson is now in his 70s, having been repeatedly lauded in multiple genres. 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