Sam Milai
http://dbpedia.org/resource/Sam_Milai an entity of type: Thing
Ahmed Samuel Milai (March 23, 1908 – April 30, 1970), better known as Sam Milai, was an African American editorial and comic strip cartoonist who drew for the Pittsburgh Courier. From 1940–c. 1971, Milai illustrated Your History (later known as Facts About The Negro), written by Joel Augustus Rogers. Patterned after the look of Robert Ripley's popular Believe It or Not cartoons, multiple vignettes in each cartoon episode recounted short items about African Americans from Rogers' research. The feature began in the Pittsburgh Courier in November 1934, with art by . In 1940, the art chores were handed over to Milai, who stayed with the feature through the rest of its run. Two collections were published, Your History (1940) and Facts About The Negro (c. 1960).
rdf:langString
rdf:langString
Sam Milai
rdf:langString
Sam Milai
rdf:langString
Sam Milai
xsd:integer
30239869
xsd:integer
1073477247
rdf:langString
Editorial cartoonist, comic strip cartoonist
xsd:date
1908-03-23
rdf:langString
Ahmed Samuel Milai
xsd:date
1970-04-30
rdf:langString
American
rdf:langString
Your History/ Facts About The Negro, Don Powers
rdf:langString
American
rdf:langString
Ahmed Samuel Milai (March 23, 1908 – April 30, 1970), better known as Sam Milai, was an African American editorial and comic strip cartoonist who drew for the Pittsburgh Courier. From 1940–c. 1971, Milai illustrated Your History (later known as Facts About The Negro), written by Joel Augustus Rogers. Patterned after the look of Robert Ripley's popular Believe It or Not cartoons, multiple vignettes in each cartoon episode recounted short items about African Americans from Rogers' research. The feature began in the Pittsburgh Courier in November 1934, with art by . In 1940, the art chores were handed over to Milai, who stayed with the feature through the rest of its run. Two collections were published, Your History (1940) and Facts About The Negro (c. 1960). Milai created Don Powers, an adventure strip distributed from August 19, 1950, to November 1, 1958, by the , about a superlative athlete. In addition, he created the strips Bucky (under his own name) and Society Sue (under the name Bobby Thomas). Milai's 1960s political cartoons for the Pittsburgh Courier are curated at Ohio State University's Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum. Milai was the Courier's editorial cartoonist for 33 years.
rdf:langString
y
xsd:nonNegativeInteger
3442