Atomic Kommie Comics: Reading Room P.S.MAGAZINE "Gentle Art of Brick Throwing"

There have been numerous articles interpreting the genius of George Herriman..

...and his most famous creation, Krazy Kat, including this rarely-seen tribute by pop culture historian/movie-tv novelization & comics adaptation author/sci-fi writer and co-creator (w/Gil Kane) of Star Hawks, Ron Goulart!

At the time (mid-1960s), Herriman's ethnic identity was unknown to almost everyone except family, who kept it secret.

Would the article have taken a different slant if Goulart and the audience knew the artistic genius they were celebrating was Black?

Consider that the piece appeared in the same issue (P.S. #1 [1966]) as this article by another noted sci-fi author, Alfred Bester, about the difficulties of Black actors/models getting work in print and TV advertising...

It's interesting to note Bester's comments about the absence of non-stereotyped Black roles in old-time radio and 1930s-40s Black actors' lack of training due to industry-wide prejudice.

(Bester, besides writing Golden Age pulp magazine and comic book stories, was a prolific scripter of dramatic radio shows during the period!)

P.S. was an experiment by Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction editor Ed Furman to expand the publisher's line into the general interest market, using the best of then-current humor and sci-fi writers to do both nostalgic and predictive articles...