Graphic designer George McCalman features 145 portraits of Black pioneers, including the celebrated and unsung in Illustrated Black History: Honoring the Iconic and the Unseen. Emily Wilson of Hyperallergic shares the importance of his work.
A few years ago, while creating a drawing of a Black pioneer every day for a month, San Francisco artist George McCalman got the idea for his book Illustrated Black History: Honoring the Iconic and the Unseen (HarperOne, 2022), which he wrote, designed, and illustrated. McCalman had some misgivings about creating a book — that as an immigrant born in Grenada, he wasn’t the right person, or that he was creating a target for people who would see it as an attack on White people. A visit to the Legacy Museum in Mobile, Alabama, and the nearby lynching memorial convinced him that the book was critical.
Read the full article and check out the complete collection of illustrations in his book.
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