Barbara Brandon-Croft (b. 1958)

Born: 1958 November 27 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States Issue List Issue Overview Issue Edit List Cover List Series List Character List Feature List Sequence List Co-Creator List via story credit search for "Barbara Brandon-Croft" Issues to be Migrated Issue List Story Credits in the GCD

Biography:

Cartoonist. The first black woman with a nationally syndicated newspaper strip with "Where I’m Coming From." The strip debuted in 1989 in the Detroit Free Press then went national a few years later with the United Press Syndicate, running in over 100 newspapers nationally and overseas.

Brandon-Croft did a cartoon feature for Élan magazine (OAO Coporation, 1981 series) in 1982. She became a fashion and beauty writer for Essence magazine (Essence Communications, 1970 series) from 1983 to 1989. Brandon-Croft has done freelance illustrations for several magazines.

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Additional biographical information: Cartoonist PROfiles (Jud Hurd, 1969 series) #96 (December 1992); Daily Cartoonist, "Barbara Brandon-Croft: Where She’s Coming From" by D. D. Degg on July 29, 2020: https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2020/07/29/barbara-brandon-croft-where-shes-coming-from/; "Profiles in Black Cartooning: Barbara Brandon-Croft" by Lauren Bullock on February 23, 2016: https://cbldf.org/2016/02/profiles-in-black-cartooning-barbara-brandon-croft/; Lambiek, "Barbara Brandon", https://www.lambiek.net/artists/b/brandon_barbara.htm; The New York Times, "A Trailblazing Black Cartoonist’s Work: ‘It’s Unapologetic, and It’s the Truth’" by Robert Ito on February 7, 2023, 5:00 a.m. ET: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/07/books/barbara-brandon-croft-where-im-coming-from.html; Prabook, "Barbara Brandon-Croft": https://prabook.com/web/barbara.brandon-croft/2614693; Prabook, "Barbara Brandon"; https://prabook.com/web/barbara.brandon/778443; Publishers Weekly, "Black Women in Cartoons: 'PW' Talks with Barbara Brandon-Croft" by Ebony V. Flowers, February 1, 2023'; https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/interviews/article/91415-black-women-in-cartoons-pw-talks-with-barbara-brandon-croft.html; The Trove "Barbara Brandon-Croft: https://www.inthetrove.com/barbara-brandoncroft; The Washington Post, "A trailblazer who brought a Black woman's voice to comics", by Michael Cavna on February 7, 2023 at 6:00 a.m. EST: https://www.washingtonpost.com/comics/2023/02/07/barbara-brandon-croft/

Syndication credits: "Where I'm Coming From" weekly (Detroit Free Press) 1989-06-11 - 1991-XX-XX [Creator, writer, artist, letterer.]; "Where I'm Coming From" weekly (Universal Press Syndicate) 1991-XX-XX - 2005-XX-XX [Creator, writer, artist, letterer.]