Chester Commodore
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Chester Commodore (August 22, 1914 – April 10, 2004) was an African-American cartoonist, as well as political cartoons and comic strips.
Commodore Edwine, Wisconsin, was always interested in drawing.
Chester and his older brother, who were living in Racine with his maternal grandmother in her boarding house until he moved to Chicago in 1927. He attempted to work with the Chicago Defender, one of the country's most popular African American newspapers, but its publisher, Robert Abbott, told him to finish his education first.
He started working as a chauffeur and a mechanic at school and then moved to Pullman Company.
He was always drawing and displaying his drawings on company bulletin boards, and he often posted them on company bulletin boards.
In 1938, he was accepted for a Minneapolis Star staff role, but he was told that there was no such job at the time. He eventually joined the Defender in 1948, designing layout, but soon began drawing cartoons for the paper.
The Sparks was his first stripe in 1948.
He took over Jay Jackson's strip Bungleton Green in the early 1950s and was integral in the cartoon features The Ravings of Professor Doodle and So What?
Commodore Robert Gordon took over Jay Jackson's job as a newspaper editor in 1954.
Accent, the Defender's weekly arts supplement, featured him as a full-page caricature beginning in 1974.
The series lasted for more than five years. From 1981, the Commodore and his wife returned to Colorado Springs, Colorado, but the Defender returned to work in 1992, starring a weekly newspaper until his death in 2004.
Early life
Commodore, born in Racine, Wisconsin, was a descendant of Peter D. Thomas, a former slave and the first African-American elected official in Wisconsin. Chester and his older brother were born in Racine, but he and his maternal grandmother stayed in the boarding house until he migrated to Chicago in 1927. At an early age, the Commodore began to be interested in comics and art, and his uncle John Prophet encouraged him. He had the opportunity to visit well-known African-American musicians and entertainers who were refused to work in Chicago and Milwaukee.
Later life and death
In 1981, the Commodore and his wife returned to Colorado Springs, Colorado, but in 1992, he returned to the Defender, where he appeared in a weekly newspaper until his death in 2004. Commodore appeared in the 1998 film Soldiers Without Swords, directed by Stanley Nelson Jr.
Career
He continued to study art at Tilden Technical High School. After graduating, he worked in various odd jobs to help himself, including as a chauffeur and a mechanic, and joined the Pullman Company. He was always drawing and displaying his designs on company bulletin boards. In 1938, American lawyer and comics writer James Rice was captivated by Commodore's work and recommended him as an artist to the Minneapolis Star, and the paper gave Commodore a job. However, the job offer was rescinded after he arrived, because the employees had no idea that he was African-American.
A national printers' strike in 1948 resulted in the opening of The Chicago Defender, where he excelled despite having no prior work as a printer. Laying out layout, but drawing cartoons for the paper came next. In 1948, he was named The Sparks for his first strip. In the early 1950s, he took over Jay Jackson's strip Bungleton Green and contributed to the cartoon characters "The Ravings of Professor Doodle and So What? Commodore took over Jay Jackson's editorial cartoons for the paper when he died in 1954, shortly before the historic Supreme Court case Brown vs. Board of Education was decided.
Following Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination in 1968, the Commodore began to concentrate more on the African American community's social problems, including poverty and exclusion from politics. Accent's weekly arts supplement, full-page caricature, began in 1974. The show lasted for more than five years. When working at The Defender, Commodore Commodore took artist Marie Antoinette Merriweather under his wing, and she later founded Teddy Bear Graphics, Inc.