Henry Brown

CTL-E-4233 · Person · artist · 1929

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Chicago Defender cartoonist who took over Bungleton Green in 1929, shifting it to a soap-opera-style serial after a stroke hindered creator Leslie Rogers.

Notes

RELP97 supporting entity: edge endpoint for CTL-E-1146 related_to. Identity-checked 2026-10-06: no collision.

Referenced by

Leslie Rogers — related to → this record

Sources

School Library Journal, 'Black Comics Pioneers'. https://www.slj.com/story/black-comics-pioneers-black-history-graphic-novels
In These Times, 'The Radical History of Black Cartoonists'. https://inthesetimes.com/article/chicago-black-comics-culture-history

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