Brandon, Brumsic, Jr., 1927-2014
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found: Author's Luther, 1969.
found: 678 field information, Dec. 4, 2014(film animator and strip cartoonist)
found: LC database, Dec. 4, 2014(heading: Brandon, Brumsic; usage: Brumsic Brandon, Jr.)
found: New York times (online), viewed Dec. 4, 2014(in obituary published Dec. 2: Brumsic Brandon Jr.; b. Apr. 10, 1927, Washington; d. Friday [Nov. 28, 2014], Cocoa Beach, Fla., aged 87; creator of Luther, one of the first nationally syndicated comic strips to feature a mainly black cast of characters)
found: African American National Biography, accessed April 27, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Brandon, Brumsic, Jr.; cartoonist, comic strip creator, soldier; born 10 April 1927 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States; graduated from Armstrong Technical High School (1945); was appointed at United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland (1945); studied art program, New York University (1945); was sergeant, all-black 594th Field Artillery battalion, U.S. occupation forces, in postwar Germany (1950); worked as a technical illustrator at John R. O'Brien and Associates Incorporated; held full-time job at Bray Studios, New York City (1957-1970); contributing editor at quarterly magazine Freedomways (1963-1986); created famous comic strip Luther (1968); thirty-two of his pen and ink drawings were added to the Library of Congress's permanent collection African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship (1995), many of his cartoons are in Pelican Books' Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year (1996-2003))
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1980-08-01: new
2023-09-06: revised
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