Texas History Movies
Texas History Movies was a comic strip with text by John Rosenfield, Jr., and pictures by Jack Patton that first ran in the Dallas Morning News in the 1920s offering historical stories about Texas.[1][2][3] Reflecting the times, historians have characterized it as a "popular racist comic strip that ran in The Dallas Morning News in the late 1920s".[2][3]
Book collections of the strip were published starting in 1928.[4] For decades, paperback collections of the strip were underwritten by oil companies (first Magnolia Petroleum Company and then Mobil Oil) and distributed for free to Texas schoolchildren.[3]
A completely new version by "counter-cultural artist, author, and self-made historian"[4] Jack Jackson (Jaxon), entitled New Texas History Movies, was published by the Texas State Historical Association in 2007 (ISBN 978-0876112236) and won the 2008 Best Western Graphic Novel award from True West Magazine.[4][5][6] It was Jackson's last work before his death in June 2006.[7]
References
- ↑ Rosenfeld, John, Jr. (1928). Texas History "Movies". Dallas, Texas: The Southland Press. p. 1.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - 1 2 Knowlton, Christopher (8 June 2021). "Two Books on the Bizarreness of Texas". The New York Times. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
- 1 2 3 "For decades, a comic book showing Texas history in the most racist ways was given to Texas students". Dallas News. 17 December 2021. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
- 1 2 3 "Texas History Movies". Handbook of Texas. Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
- ↑ Boardman, Mark (November–December 2007). "Back to the Future". True West Magazine. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
- ↑ Rutherford, Ryan (4 May 2007). "Book Review: Readings". www.austinchronicle.com. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
- ↑ "Texas History Movies". www.toonopedia.com. Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Retrieved 3 January 2022.