About Comics @aboutcomics.com · Jan 23 1 / 2
Ollie Harrington has been selected for this year's inductions in the Eisner Hall of Fame! Well deserved! The comic strips and cartoons he did for Black weekly papers shone and (as the publisher of the only in-print books of his work, licensed from his widow) it's good to see the word spread.
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The centerpiece of Oliver Harrington's work was Dark Laughter, a single-panel gag series often focused on the ne'er-do-well Bootsie. This book sees Bootsie at first avoiding the draft, then getting conscripted, serving overseas in WWII, and returning to a nation with its own racial strife.