Walt Carr Cartoons for “Just Us”
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“Just Us!” counts as one African American’s perspective on the condition of Blacks in America and the 193-page book spotlights Carr’s style of drawing and wit. The book is broken down into nine categories: Obama, GOP, Racism, Crime, Sports, Cops, Youth/Education, and Transition and Entertainment. “There’s a brief narrative before each category that helps define who I am and how my life experiences shaped me, my concepts and beliefs,” Carr said.
Carr’s new book, “Just Us!” is now available and it’s a collection of his previously printed editorial cartoons that have intrigued countless readers over an award-winning 50-year career.
Carr said he had more than 1,200 cartoons to select from for “Just Us!,” which is a play on the word “justice.”
One of Walt Carr‘s cartoons caused enough of a ruckus that Alan Gardner reported about it here in 2009, which created a mini-ruckus in the comments section.
Anyway…
Aside from being a long-time contributor to Ebony, Carr’s cartoons have appeared in Playboy, Negro Digest, Metropolitan, Homecoming, Jet, Black World, the ribald Players Magazine and numerous black newspapers across the country, like the Washington Informer, New Pittsburgh Courier, Pasadena Journal, Norfolk Journal & Guide, Sacramento Observer, Philadelphia Tribune, Michigan Chronicle, Wilmington Journal, Cleveland Call & Post and the Baltimore Afro-American.
On the occasion of the release of Walt’s book, Stacy M. Brown, for the National Newspaper Publishers Association, wrote a feature article about the book and profiling Walt Carr.
I’m not finding a source on where to order the book,
though a did find an Ebony “Strictly For Laughs” page featuring Walt:
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