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By Helen Borton

All Your Racial Problems Will Soon End Thomas Ott they remind us that theBy Charles Johnson. Published by New York Review Comics. Hardcover, 280 pages, B&W, 2022. Before Charles Johnson found fame as a novelist and won the National Book Award for Middle Passage in 1991, he was a cartoonist, and a very good one. Taught via correspondence course by the comics editor Lawrence Lariar, mentored by the New Yorker cartoonist Charles Barsotti, and inspired by the call of the poet Amiri Baraka to celebrate and depict Black life in