Curtis

A landmark career retrospective celebrating Ray Billingsley, the cartooning powerhouse behind Curtis, America s longest-running syndicated comic strip about middle-class Black life. This is a must-have collector’s item with never-before-seen art and ephemera.
A landmark career retrospective celebrating Ray Billingsley, the cartooning powerhouse behind Curtis, America s longest-running syndicated comic strip about middle-class Black life. This is a must-have collector’s item with never-before-seen art and ephemera. For almost 40 years, Ray Billingsley has written about the life of Curtis Wilkins and his family in the longest running Black-created comic strip. Beginning his professional career at age 12, Billingsley was determined to write about a life he knew growing up in Harlem and bring that to Black Americans everywhere. Always funny but willing to tackle real subjects like bullying, gentrification, and the dangers of smoking, Curtis ce