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Jerry Craft is the creator of Mama’s Boyz, his award-winning comic strip that has been distributed by King Features Syndicate since 1995. His first book, Mama’s Boyz: As American as Sweet Potato Pie! was named in The Great Books For African American Children. Since then, the strip has been featured in “Chicken Soup For The African American Soul,” “Chicken Soup For The African American Woman’s Soul,” and “The Idiot’s Guide to Comedy Writing.”
He has recently released his second book, Mama’s Boyz: Home Schooling which is even bigger and better than the first! Jerry has done illustrations for Essence Magazine, book covers, and has recently illustrated his first children’s book.
Check out my illustration in the Dec 2007 Essence Magazine. Page 172
Working with the ACFN http://mamasboyz.com/news/index.html
Main Website: www.mamasboyz.com
YouTube cartoon: Black Superheroes of My Childhood
MySpace: www.myspace.com/jerrycraft
Comic Space: www.comicspace.com/jerrycraft
Newest Book: http://mamasboyz.com/products/homeschoolin.html
Reviews:
http://comicsintheclassroom.net/oo2007_oct13_mamasboyz.htm
William H. Foster III is presently a Professor of English at Naugatuck Valley Community College in Waterbury, Connecticut.
Professor Foster has a BA from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, MA, and a Masters degree from Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT.
A long-time comic book collector and researcher, Professor Foster has been an expert commentator for both CNN News and National Public Radio. He was a consultant on the historical image of Blacks in both comic strips and comic books for the Words and Pictures Museum of Fine Sequential Art in Northampton, MA. He was also a consultant to the 2004 exhibit,“ Heroes, Heartthrobs, and Horrors: Celebrating Connecticut’s Invention of the American Comic Book” presented by the Connecticut Historical Society. He also has presented his research at the 2001 bi-annual conference of The International Association for Media and History in Leipzig, Germany and at the 2002 Conference on Analyzing Series & Serial Narrative at John Moores University in Liverpool, England. He is the author of “Looking for a Face like Mine” published in 2005 by Fine Tooth Press. In 2007 he was also an invited speaker to the International Symposium on Langston Hughes at Central China Normal University in Wuhan, China.
